Recent Sermons - St Andrew - Holy Cross Basildon

Sermon for 29th August from Nicola Firth

James – 1:17-27; Mark – 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 Hearing and doing the word. James is probably one of my favourite books in the bible, I love how he is straight to the point, not that the directness of the writing… Read more…
Sermon for Sunday 22nd August from Rev. Jane Richards

John 6 56-69; Ephesians 6 10-20 Last week, as some of you know, I spent a few days in Scotland visiting a friend. The weather was not that great - who goes to Scotland for the weather - but the… Read more…
Sermon for Sunday 15th August from Rev Shirley

Galatians 4. 4-7, Luke 1. 46-55 The other day I was watching a feather in the garden; a little feather, detached from the bird somewhere up in the tree. It seemed to have a life of its own. It sank… Read more…
Sermon for Sunday 8th August from Karen White

1 Kings 19:4-8 Journeys (for a service at which William was Baptised) If I had a pound for every time someone said “I’ve done my bit in the Church,or I’m too old to do anything now, or the Church is… Read more…
Sermon for Sunday 1st August – from Phil Horscroft

John 6: 24 to 35 We heard last week of the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. This was the ‘largest’ of the signs in John’s Gospel. Today’s reading from John’s Gospel is basically part two of that miraculous… Read more…