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Fr Mund Cargill Thompson
Contributing sermons since Jan 12, 2010
Newest Sermons
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The Good Shepherd's Wine
Contributed on May 9, 2025
A sermon on worship - on both connecting with the past, and on intimacy with God.
In the 1960s something beautiful happened in the Roman Catholic Church. It was called the Second Vatican Council In it they suddenly decided to do almost all the things we Anglicans had been begging them to do for 500 years. I talked to you last week about the Anglo-Catholic revival in the Church ...read more
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The Fragrance Of Love
Contributed on Apr 4, 2025
Is our worship "bland blah-de-blah" or "love untamed, worship unashamed"
If you enter St Barnabas Church in Jehricho North Oxford you may be struck by the beautiful cut-glass mural on the left (north) side of the nave. It depicts many important saints, martyrs and angels of the Christian tradition, with the words of the Te Deum Laudamus underneath. It is absolutely ...read more
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Can Bible Based Christains Believe In Evolution?
Contributed on Feb 22, 2025
Great Christians Like John Stott and St Augustine of Hippo had no problem believing that Genesis 1 and 2 were about the why and not the how of the world being made. Yet recently Christians have increasingly embraced 6 day creationism. What should we believe?
Many of you will have heard of the Big Bang Theory. The idea that the universe began from nothing when matter exploded into existence. But do you know who came up with the concept? [take suggestions] In 1927 the idea was first proposed by Fr George Lemaitre a Belgium Roman Catholic Priest. Many ...read more
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An Elderly Joseph On His Death Bed Writes A Letter For Jesus To Read After He Is Gone.
Contributed on Dec 28, 2024
A sermon that is more than just a story - but designed to get us thinking about who Jesus is. Inspired by the novel Gilead by Marilynne Robinson.
This sermon was preached first at St Nicholas Church Perivale on 29 December 2024- using the Church Worship's 1st Sunday of Christmas Year C, but could also fit with the Catholic tradition of cleebrating that Sunday as "The Holy Family" or with Holy Innocents or St Joseph's day. ...read more
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Imagine The Divine Midwife Next To Us Whispering, "Push, Push, Push. It’s Almost Here"
Contributed on Nov 16, 2024
The Twin Towers stood for ever until they didn't- avoid Over Confidence. Yet the wars keep coming and Jesus has not yet come - As Hitchhikers says - "don't panic"
Sermon preached on my second last Sunday at St Barnabas Northolt, 17th November 2024 ......................................................................................................... [lean to one side] Over confidence? [lean to the other side] Over panicked? [scratching head] over ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Year A Lent 4
Contributed on Apr 4, 2025
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Science And Religion
Contributed on Feb 22, 2025
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Year B 2nd Before Advent
Contributed on Nov 16, 2024
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Year B Proper 22
Contributed on Nov 9, 2024
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The Cross
Contributed on Oct 22, 2024
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Evanglism Quote
Contributed on Jan 24, 2017
St John Chrysostom says “I cannot believe in the salvation of anyone who doesn’t long for ...read more
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What Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes And Lilo And Stitch Tell Us
Contributed on Apr 10, 2015
Two films. The 2014 film “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” and the earlier “Lilo and stitch”. In the Dawn of the Planet of the apes, small groups of human beings and intelligent apes have both survived a deadly plague. A group of humans trying to restart a hydro electric generator stumble across ...read more
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Sinking Ships
Contributed on Apr 10, 2015
Let me share with you two stories that happened within two years of each other in the second decade of the Twentieth Century. The first you will know. On April 15, 1912, on which the Titanic plunged 12,000 feet to the Atlantic floor, some two hours and forty minutes after an iceberg tore a ...read more
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The Opposite Of A Christian
Contributed on Jan 29, 2013
THE OPPOSITE OF A CHRISTIAN What would you say was the opposite of a Christian people? would it be an atheist people? a pagan people? Perhaps even a hypocritical people, an unforgiving people. What would be your answer? When the novelist George bernanos was asked this question "What is the ...read more
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I End With Words From The Lion, The Witch And The ...
Contributed on Dec 24, 2012
I end with words from The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe, in which Mr Beaver describes Aslan, the lion who represents Jesus. “Safe?” said Mr Beaver. “Didn’t you hear what Mrs Beaver tells you? Who said anything about ...read more