Sermon Archives - Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham https://southwell.anglican.org/category/sermon/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:05:06 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://southwell.anglican.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/cropped-Church-of-England-logo-4k-sticky-32x32.png Sermon Archives - Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham https://southwell.anglican.org/category/sermon/ 32 32 Bishop Paul’s Sermon for the Service of Celebration of the King’s Official Birthday https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-sermon-for-the-service-of-celebration-of-the-kings-official-birthday/ https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-sermon-for-the-service-of-celebration-of-the-kings-official-birthday/#respond Wed, 18 Jun 2025 15:05:04 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=14652 Sunday 15th June, Southwell Minster My text for this sermon is 1 Peter 2:16: “Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil…Show proper respect to everyone…” There’s a little volume called ‘The All Better Book’  in which children try to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems, like what to do about global warming, how to stop wars and so on. And here’s one of the toughest questions they faced: ‘With billions of people […]

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]]> https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-sermon-for-the-service-of-celebration-of-the-kings-official-birthday/feed/ 0 Bishop Paul’s Easter Sermon in Southwell Minster https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-in-southwell-minster-2025/ https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-in-southwell-minster-2025/#respond Sun, 20 Apr 2025 11:41:24 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=13832 In Bishop Paul's Easter sermon in the cathedral, he said, “because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, there is always hope.”
“With all that is happening in our world at the moment, and maybe in our lives too, we need the Easter story as much as ever. Here is the true story of hope over despair, light over darkness, and the power of love over hatred, because of Jesus.”
"Our Easter faith is about the love of God that is irresistibly good and irrepressibly hopeful. It is a living hope that is available to everyone, everywhere.”

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]]> https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-in-southwell-minster-2025/feed/ 0 Bishop Paul’s Easter Sermon in Southwell Minster https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-2024/ https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-2024/#respond Sun, 31 Mar 2024 10:52:40 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=9983 In Bishop Paul's Easter sermon in the cathedral, he said, “because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, there is always hope.”
“With all that is happening in our world at the moment, and maybe in our lives too, we need the Easter story as much as ever. Here is the true story of hope over despair, light over darkness, and the power of love over hatred, because of Jesus.”
"Our Easter faith is about the love of God that is irresistibly good and irrepressibly hopeful. It is a living hope that is available to everyone, everywhere.”

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]]> https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-2024/feed/ 0 Bishop Paul’s Advent & Christmas Message 2022 https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-advent-christmas-message-2022/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:54:16 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=6936 In Bishop Paul's Advent & Christmas message for 2022, against the backdrop of a difficult year for many across the world and closer to home, he speaks about how "fear may stalk in the darkness of our sorrow and sadness or our uncertainties about the future, but it need not overwhelm us because the light of Christ, the Everlasting Light, shines in the darkness and his perfect love can cast out all fear."

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]]> Bishop Paul’s Sermon given for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at St Mary’s in the Lace Market, Nottingham https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-sermon-given-for-the-queens-platinum-jubilee-at-st-marys-in-the-lace-market-nottingham/ Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:12:02 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=5502 In a special Jubilee message on Wednesday, the Queen spoke about ‘looking to the future with confidence and enthusiasm’. Once more the Queen spoke with resilient hope not based on wishful thinking but inspired by her faith in God before whom, seventy years ago, she dedicated her life to the service of nation and Commonwealth.

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]]> Bishop’s Address to Diocesan Synod – 14th May 2022 https://southwell.anglican.org/bishops-address-to-diocesan-synod-14th-may-2022/ https://southwell.anglican.org/bishops-address-to-diocesan-synod-14th-may-2022/#comments Tue, 17 May 2022 08:21:31 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=5282 I want to begin my address to this Synod by thanking you all for your different ministries as the people of God across the diocese. Over these past few years through all the many challenges and changes we have been living through, I have frequently turned to one of Paul’s prayers in 1 Thessalonians 1:
“We always thank God for all of you and continually mention you in our prayers. We remember before our God and Father your work produced by faith, your labour prompted by love, and your endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.”

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]]> https://southwell.anglican.org/bishops-address-to-diocesan-synod-14th-may-2022/feed/ 1 Bishop Paul’s Easter Sermon in Southwell Minster https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-in-southwell-minster/ https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-in-southwell-minster/#respond Sun, 17 Apr 2022 10:00:00 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=5107 In Bishop Paul's Easter sermon in the cathedral, he said, “because of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, there is always hope.”
“With all that is happening in our world at the moment, and maybe in our lives too, we need the Easter story as much as ever. Here is the true story of hope over despair, light over darkness, and the power of love over hatred, because of Jesus.”
"Our Easter faith is about the love of God that is irresistibly good and irrepressibly hopeful. It is a living hope that is available to everyone, everywhere.”

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]]> https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-easter-sermon-in-southwell-minster/feed/ 0 Hope Rising: Easter 2022 Message from Bishop Andy https://southwell.anglican.org/hope-rising-easter-2022-message-from-bishop-andy/ https://southwell.anglican.org/hope-rising-easter-2022-message-from-bishop-andy/#respond Fri, 15 Apr 2022 16:25:51 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=5102 As the dawn breaks across Nottinghamshire, on this Good Friday Bishop Andy brings an Easter message of hope rising against the backdrop of darkness, both overseas and closer to home.

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]]> https://southwell.anglican.org/hope-rising-easter-2022-message-from-bishop-andy/feed/ 0 Bishop Paul’s Sermon in Southwell Minster on Christmas Morning 2021 https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-sermon-in-southwell-minster-on-christmas-morning-2021/ Sat, 25 Dec 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=4179 In his Christmas Day sermon in the cathedral, Bishop Paul speaks about the transforming gift of kindness and love that God brings to our world in-person through the birth of Jesus.

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]]> Bishop Paul’s Advent & Christmas Message 2021 https://southwell.anglican.org/bishop-pauls-advent-christmas-message-2021/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 08:33:00 +0000 https://southwell.anglican.org/?p=3812 In Bishop Paul’s Advent & Christmas message for 2021, against the backdrop of so much fear in our world, he speaks about “the transforming hope that Jesus brings, which sets people free to be themselves as God intended.”

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