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Fr Mund Cargill Thompson
Contributing sermons since Jan 12, 2010
Newest Sermons
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Pointing To The Horizon Of Beauty
Contributed on Jun 11, 2026
Someowhere between a sermon and a workshop - on the theme of evengelism - with four interactive activities for the congregation to take part in.
Copy me: [point fingers up to sky. Then put hands out to my side and make as if holding other peoples hands. Then bring them back in and unfurl one hand in front as if offering to other people . Then unfurl the other hand also as if offering.] What does that mean [take responses] Well Fr Dean ...read more
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Don't Let The Christians Put You Off Christianity
Contributed on Jun 7, 2026
Christians are really good at putting people off Christianity - but there is something about Christianity that is deeply attractive - that answers our deepest issues. And that something is Jesus.
Don’t let the Christians put you off Christianity In the early years of the 20th Century a young Hindu man came from one part of the Bristish Empire (The Raj) to another (South Africa to practise law. He had read some of the New Testament and he was bowled over by Jesus’s teaching - so one Sunday ...read more
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The Stranger Walks With Us And Talks Of Meals
Contributed on Apr 17, 2026
a sermon for Easter 3 based on Luke 24, "recognising him in the breaking of the bread" - God's hospitality and his call to us to show hospitality
On Easter morning as you were tucking into the hotcross buns baked by Father Dean and the simnel cake baked by yours, I wonder if you also reflected on what is the theology that drives priests to bake for God. I’m going to take you on a journey that will hopefully get you there. But lets begin a ...read more
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God's Life Hacks For Dealing With Anxiety - Including Lessons From A Controversial Musical...
Contributed on Feb 8, 2026
We are told we are facing a mental health crisis in the UK and other western countries at the moment. Huge numbers of people suffer crippling anxiety. But God is there for us through it. (This sermon includes lessons from the Musical "The Book of Mormon")
This sermon was first preached 8th February 2026 at St Joseph the Worker Northolt ........................................................................................................................................................................... How you can tell when it's going to be a ...read more
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Paul Explains Himself
Contributed on Jan 22, 2026
A first person take as if from St Paul on what it means to experience forgiveness. This was first preached in July 1999 at St John's South bank as a sermon on Romans 8, then preached again in 2026 at St Gabriel's Acton for the Conversion of St Paul
Played on a recording: Voice 1: They say forgive and forget, but after what she has done, I’ll never forgive her. Voice 2: That sort of monster: he deserves to die Voice 3: They call it a life sentence – but after ten years he’ll be out. What about our Mary? They can’t bring her back. We have ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Year A Proper 10
Contributed on Jun 7, 2026
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Year A 2nd Before Lent
Contributed on Feb 8, 2026
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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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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