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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: April 2015

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Sunday, 12 April 2015. Easter 2: The Innkeeper’s gift – a Sicilian folk tale. There was once an innkeeper in Galilee, and he was the meanest innkeeper you are ever likely to meet. There were no free little pots of peanuts on the bar in his inn. Anything you wanted you had to pay for – even a glass of cold water. 8221; So he put a board outside his inn saying “Free food and drink for all! So that little doorway in the innkeepers heart slammed shut. 8220;I hav...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: Cookie policy

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They aren't edible treats, which you should probably refrain from if you care about your waistline. If you have come here hoping for a recipe, please see below for my favourite. To learn more about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org. The Cookies We Use. This data helps us to understand:. Which pages people visit on the site. What is popular on the site. You can...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: Trinity 3:Stilling the storms

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Sunday, 21 June 2015. Trinity 3:Stilling the storms. Psalm 107, Mark 4.35-41. He can switch off completely – or at least that is the plan. But then, as we hear, the wind gets up. Presumably the fishermen do what they would normally do under these circumstances – reef the sails, start baling and so on. But none of the tricks they use works. So they wake Jesus. Why? What do they think he can do? 8211; then who can he be? The early Christians knew quite well th...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: July 2015

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Sunday, 12 July 2015. Compassion - A Sermon by Kevin Bright. I have to say that this thought crossed my mind when my cousin arranged for a hundred or more to spring a surprise 70th party on my auntie, what if she just wanted a quiet night out with immediate family? Compassion, exclusion, indifference? Sunday, 5 July 2015. Trinity 5: Contempt, scorn and derision. Psalm 123, Ezekiel 2.1-5, 2 Cor 12.2-10, Mark 6.1-13. Says the Psalm we read today. The good weat...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: Trinity 1: Living in the Spirit

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Sunday, 7 June 2015. Trinity 1: Living in the Spirit. Genesis 3.8-15, Ps 130, 2 Corinthians 4.13-5.1, Mark3.20-35. At least they weren’t getting into drink and drugs. But too late they realise that it has all got out of hand. What’s gone wrong? Where was the tipping point? What’s got into their beloved children? Jesus’ family had the same worries for him . Of his mind, but a man who had let something very evil into. Today’s collect was very relevant to...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: December 2014

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Monday, 29 December 2014. A Sermon by Kevin Bright. Matthew 2.13-18, Jeremiah 31.15-17, 1 Corinthians 1.26-29. Well that’s it all over for another year, ‘thank goodness for that’ some will say whilst others love it all so much that they call the words of the Elvis song to mind as they think ‘why can’t every day be like Christmas’! I guess it all depends on what we really mean by Christmas. Those who heard Anne’s midnight mass sermon (which is available...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: October 2014

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Friday, 31 October 2014. Soaking in the love of God - A sermon by Andrea Leonard. Andrea is an ordinand studying with SEITE. Who is with us on a church placement for two months. Have you ever tried to flush rice krispies down the toilet? I once had a bowlful to get rid of, and so I tipped them down the toilet. Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time! But they just don’t go! Three days later there were still a few floating around. We are told to be Holy,...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: Patronal Festival: Living stones

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Sunday, 28 June 2015. Patronal Festival: Living stones. 1 Peter 2.1-10, Matt 16.13-19. 8220;Like living stones, let yourselves be built into a spiritual house.”. I’ve given you all a stone today. You might like to hold it as you listen. You can take it home with you – in fact, please do! Put it somewhere special. Decorate it if you like, or don’t if you’d rather not. Maybe it’s no surprise, then, that those make their way into so many Biblical stories. Of co...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: Trinity 5: Contempt, scorn and derision

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Sunday, 5 July 2015. Trinity 5: Contempt, scorn and derision. Psalm 123, Ezekiel 2.1-5, 2 Cor 12.2-10, Mark 6.1-13. 8220;We have had more than enough of contempt, too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, and of the derision of the proud.”. Says the Psalm we read today. The truth is that it is often just as much by luck as judgement. Success is affected by the family we are born into, the people we encounter along the way,. It isn’t fair that it shou...

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Sermons from St Peter & St Paul, Seal, Kent: January 2015

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Sermons from St Peter and St Paul, Seal, Kent. Sunday, 25 January 2015. Conversion of St Paul: Dangerous zeal. Acts 9.1-22, Matthew 19.27-30. Today’s readings should cause us profound unease. If they don’t then we probably aren’t reading them carefully enough. They will “ receive a hundredfold, and will inherit eternal life”. Which might sound ok for the person who is doing the leaving, but what about all those brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and children? He could have opted for safety, given up his...