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Sermon for Sunday, 24 May 2020

By Revd George Mwaura Responding to the COVID-19 crisis: Psalm 46 and Luke 21:5–11 Let us pray together: God of time and space, may your guiding spirit speak to us your reassuring words in these anxious times for our hearts are desperate for your consolation. Amen Now having been quarantined at home against our wishes has...

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Sermon for Sunday, 10 May 2020 VE Commemoration

By Revd Canon John Robertson Director of Ecumenical Mission, Milton Keynes Mission Partnership Bible readings: Micah 4: 1–4 & Revelation 22: 1–5 Lord God, in whom is our healing and our hope, grant us courage and faithfulness that we may follow the way of the cross marked out by Jesus and so join the joyous triumph...

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Sermon for Sunday, 26 April 2020 (Easter 3)

By Revd George Mwaura An Emmaus Experience Based on Luke 24: 13–35. Loving God open our ears to hear your word and know your voice. Open our eyes to recognise you even in the darkness of suffering. Speak to our hearts and strengthen our wills, that we may serve you today and always. Amen There’s a...

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Sermon for Sunday, 19 April 2020 (Easter 2)

Show me your hands
I heard of a funny incident involving a child of one our ministers during these days of lockdown. A few weeks ago, his five-year-old son rushed in from playing outside at dinner time and sat at the table. His mother looked at him and said, ‘Young man, let me see your hands.’ The poor boy attempted to rub the dust and muck off on his khaki shorts before he held them up. His mother looked at them and asked, ‘How many times do I have to remind you that you must wash your hands before you eat? When your hands are dirty, they can carry corona germs and you could get sick. After we say grace, I want you to go to the kitchen and wash them.’ Obediently, after grace the little boy got up and headed to the kitchen, but halfway there, he stopped, turned and said to his mother, ‘Jesus and germs; Jesus and germs; that’s all I hear around here and I haven’t seen either of them!’
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Another Coaching Reflection

It was a Skype conversation, a disembodied voice through a computer screen and although I could not see his face, I knew something was wrong the moment he started talking. ‘What’s the matter?’ I asked. ‘You sound distracted.’ ‘My mother is in hospital,’ he said. ‘She has this virus. We don’t know what to do. We...

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A Coaching Reflection

Funny, how our priorities change. I work as a business coach. A month ago, I had a coaching conversation with a manager about his career. He was worried about being by-passed on the career ladder and at the same time struggling with the work–home life balance. ‘When I get home,’ he said. ‘I am tired out....

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Sermon for Easter Day, 12 April 2020

by Revd George Mwaura Resurrection Hope – Matthew 28: 1–10 Lord, we thank you for the gift of your Word, and as we reflect on the Easter Sunday event, we pray that you would open our hearts and our minds to hear afresh your message of resurrection in the name of the one who overcame death....

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Reflection for Maundy Thursday 2020

Picture for a moment the scene is the upper room: Jesus and his twelve close followers are gathered for the last time. Only two of them know that fact. The meal begins. Small talk flows, but then the volume and intensity of feelings rise. John tells us that a dispute broke out among the disciples. Who is the greatest disciple? they asked. All claimed to be the greatest. Each extolled their virtues. Each, except one.
Slowly and silently Jesus stands to his feet. …

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Sermon for Palm Sunday, 5 April 2020

by Revd George Mwaura Based on Isaiah 50: 4–9a and Mathew 21: 1–11 While reflecting on the passages before us and the message that I want share with you, in light of the ongoing pandemic, I have been very careful not to trivialize the pandemic, at the same time not allowing it to take control of...