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Fr Mund Cargill Thompson
Contributing sermons since Jan 12, 2010
Newest Sermons
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Proving Not So Much That He Is God As What Sort Of God He Is...
Contributed on Aug 26, 2025
A sermon on Jesus healing the woman bent over double in the Synagogue.
In our intercessions today (as we do every week)– we will be praying for people who are sick – praying because we wish Jesus to make them well. If you read the Quran you will find something surprising. The Quran refers on multiple occasions to the miracles that Jesus performed – to him healing the ...read more
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The Curious Case Of The Millionaire Who Thought He Was Poor
Contributed on Aug 2, 2025
Money is a thorny question and many of us think we are less rich than we are. "Money dysmorphia". In Luke 12:13-21 Jesus challenges us on our attitude.
This sermon was first preached 3rd July 2025 at St Grabriel's Acton. It builds on some of my previous sermons on the topic preached elsewhere especially "Frenchie upsets his dad"; "Baking bigger cakes - wealth creation the Wesley Way" and "Generous Wallet Happy ...read more
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Prayer - For Those Of Us Who Struggle
Contributed on Jul 26, 2025
A talk on prayer preached at St Christophers Hanwell 28 July 2025, at a Cafe Communion service - where people sit around tables and the sermon is inevitably quite interactive.
INTRO “one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, as John taught his disciples” [Luke 11:1] Martin Luther, the 16th Century reformer, was once asked much time he spent in prayer. “An hour a day” he said. “But what about if you are really busy?” “If I am really busy I have to spend ...read more
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My Grandad's Letter
Contributed on Jul 12, 2025
This week I found an old letter my Grandad sent to me as a kid - as I decyphered word for word the difficult handwriting it made me reflect on Paul's letter we have listened to this morning - and how if we decypher it word for word - it too can turn out to be so precious to us
I moved into my new house last December and (Don’t judge me for this) – I am still unpacking boxes – including some that never got unpacked from the previous move ten years ago… And while I was going through some boxes this week, I came across this – It’s a letter to me from my granddad written to ...read more
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A Tale Of Two Churches
Contributed on Jul 5, 2025
A Sermon for a Church who have just recieved a new priest (not me) - that the secret of growth won't be him - it will be them.
Who here would like St Jo’s to grow? [presume lots of hands go up] So [go round asking people] what would it be like if St Jo’s grew significantly? [take a reasonable number of answers to unpack the question – before returning to the sanctuary] Jesus stands in the middle of the crowd and says ...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