Sermons – St Mary’s and St Mark’s

21st April 2024 - (Creed 06) - St Mary's, Slaugham - Informal Worship Speaker: Rev. Carl Smith Passage: John 14:15-31 Series: The Creed Continuing our series looking at the statements of the creed.

14th April 2024 - (Creed 05) - St Mary's, Slaugham - Communion Speaker: Rev. Carl Smith Passage: John 14:1-7 Series: The Creed Continuing our series looking at the statements of the creed.

7th April 2024 - (Creed 04) - St Mary's, Slaugham - Morning Worship Speaker: Davina Irwin-Clark Passage: Ephesians 1:17-23 Series: The Creed Continuing our series looking at the statements of the creed.

31st March 2024 - (Easter) - St Mary's, Slaugham - Morning Worship Speaker: Rev. Carl Smith Passage: John 20:19-23 Series: Specials A special sermon for Easter Sunday about how it is the resurrection of Jesus that unites us as Christians.

17th March 2024 - (Fifth Sunday of Lent) - St Mary's, Slaugham - Morning Worship Speaker: Liz Cox Passage: John 8:12-20 Series: Lent 2024 This week's sermon continues our Lent series based on the 2024 Lent course "Jesus the Lord" from Chichester Diocese.

10th March 2024 - (Fourth Sunday of Lent / Mothering Sunday) - St Mark's, Staplefield, United Communion Speaker: Rev. Carl Smith Passage: John 16:16-24 Series: Lent 2024 This week's sermon continues our Lent series based on the 2024 Lent course "Jesus the Lord" from Chichester Diocese.

3rd March 2024 - (Third Sunday of Lent) - St Mary's, Slaugham - Morning Worship Speaker: Graham Reid Passage: Luke 4:38-41 Series: Lent 2024 This week's sermon continues our Lent series based on the 2024 Lent course "Jesus the Lord" from Chichester Diocese.

25th February 2024 - (Second Sunday of Lent) - St Mary's, Slaugham - Holy Communion Speaker: Rev. Peter Irwin-Clark Passage: Colossians 1:15-29 Series: Lent 2024 This week's sermon continues our Lent series based on the 2024 Lent course "Jesus the Lord" from Chichester Diocese.

18th February 2024 - (First Sunday of Lent) - St Mary's, Slaugham - Morning Worship Passage: John 3:16-21 Series: Lent 2024 This week's sermon is the first in our Lent series based on the 2024 Lent course "Jesus the Lord" from Chichester Diocese.

11th February 2024 - (Sunday before Lent) - West Weald Parish United Service, Morning Worship Preacher: Rev Carl Smith Passage: Matthew 3:13-17 Series: The Creed This week's sermon was recorded at our first 'United Parish' service under the West Weald banner. Continuing in our series looking at the statements of the creed, this week Carl talks about what it means to call Jesus the son of God.

4th February 2024 - (2nd Sunday before Lent) - St Mary's Slaugham, Morning Worship Preacher: Rev Peter Irwin-Clark Passage: Isaiah 45:15-25 Series: The Creed This week our sermon is the first in a series on the statements of the creed.

Talk recorded at the All Saint's Evening Service on the 28th January 2024. The speaker is Liz Cox.

28th January 2024 - Holy Communion - Davina Irwin-Clark - Your Name's Renown - Mark 1:21-28

21st January 2024 - Vision Sunday - Rev. Carl Smith - Luke 5:1-11

14th January 2024 - Second Sunday of Epiphany - Rev. Carl Smith - Revelation 5:1-10

7th January 2024 - 1st Sunday of Epiphany - Rev. Carl Smith - A New Creation - 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

25th December 2023 - Christmas Day - Rev. Carl Smith - John 1:1-5,14 - 1 John 1:1-3

17th December 2023 - Carols By Candlelight - Rev. Carl Smith

10th December 2023 - Communion - Davina Irwin-Clark - Joy - Luke 1:39-45

3rd December 2023 - Informal Praise - Rev Carl Smith - The first in our series of talks for Advent looks at the theme of hope. the reading is taken from Isaiah 9:1-2,6-7

26th November 2023 - Informal Communion - Rev. Carl Smith - 1 Timothy 4:11-16 - The last in the series looking at our 'Statement of Becoming' - Honouring Children and Young People

19th November 2023 - Informal Praise - Rev. Carl Smith - Discipleship - Psalm 23

5th November 2023 - Morning Worship - Rev. Carl Smith - Judgement and Repentance - Romans 2:1-5

29th October 2023 - Informal Praise - Rev. Carl Smith - John 1:35-42

23rd October 2023 - Informal Communion - Rev. Carl Smith - Philemon 8-21

15th October 2023 - Informal Praise - Rev. Carl Smith - Matthew 25:34-46

8th October 2023 - Holy Communion - Rev. Carl Smith - Luke 13:18-21

1st October 2023 - Morning Worship - Phil Hawksley - Our Communities: All Saints - James 2:14-26

24th September 2023 - United Parish Harvest Service - Rev. Carl Smith - The church community at St Mark's - Acts 2:42-47

17th September 2023 - Informal Praise - Rev. Carl Smith - The DNA of the St Mary's Community - Acts 11:19-26

10th September 2023 - Holy Communion - Rev. Carl Smith - Galatians 5:16-26

3rd September 2023 - All-Age Worship - Rev. Carl Smith - Psalm 119:105-112

27th August 2023 - Morning Worship - Davina Irwin-Clark - Jonah 4:1-11

20th August 2023 - Informal Praise - Graham Reid - Jonah 3 - Repentance

13th August 2023 - Communion - Davina Irwin-Clark - Jonah 2:1-10

6th August 2023 - All-Age Worship - Rev. Peter Irwin-Clark - Jonah 1:1-17

30th July 2023 - Cafe Church - Rev. Carl Smith - Romans 12:9-13

23rd July 2023 - Morning Worship - Liz Cox - Building Authentic Communities - Love - John 13:31-35

16th July 2023 - Informal Praise - Rev. Carl Smith - Shame - Hebrews 2:8-13

9th July 2023 - Communion - Rev. Peter Irwin-Clark - 1 Timothy 3:1-13

2nd July 2023 - Informal Worship - Matt Beckenham - Philippians 2:19-30

25th June 2023 - Morning Worship - Rev. Carl Smith - Joyful Giving - 2 Corinthians 9:6-25

18th June 2023 - Informal Praise - Rev. Carl Smith - Building Authentic Communities - 1 John 2:1-6

11th June 2023 - Holy Communion - Jon Rotheray - James 1:19-27

4th June 2023 - All-age Worship - Rev. Carl Smith - Love - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

28th May 2023 - Morning Worship - Rev. Peter Irwin-Clark -  Colossians 3:12-17

7th May 2023 - Morning Worship (Coronation Weekend) - Rev. Carl Smith - Meeting God In The Secret Place - Matthew 6:5-18

30th April 2023 - APCM/Morning Worship - Rev. Carl Smith - Rector's Report from 2023 APCM - Ephesians 2:11-22

23rd April 2023 - Morning Worship - Rev. Carl Smith - Isaiah 58:1-14 - Justice

16th April 2023 - Informal Praise - Davina Irwin-Clark - Romans 12:4-10 - Honouring One Another

9th April 2023 - Easter Day - Rev. Carl Smith - John 20:1-10