Sermons

Sermons are given during morning and evening services every week. In response to requests, the preacher's script is normally available on this page early the following week. Click below to access each sermon - the most recent are at the top of the list.

Bernard of Clairvaux
17.8.08 - Stephen Fielding at St Peter's, Tewin
Saint Clare of Assisi
10.8.08 - Diane Whittaker at St Michael's Woolmer Green
"I suffer endless anguish of heart" (Romans 9:2)
3.8.08 - Stephen Fielding at St Mary's Welwyn
John Mason Neal
3.8.08 - Colin Hull at All Saints' Datchworth
Spirituality and suffering: the compassion that flows from grief in the ministry of Jesus
3.8.08 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn
God's New Creation
27.7.08 - Stephen Fielding at Ayot St Peter & Tewin
Saint Dominic
27.7.08 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn
Sound Recording of Sermon
27.7.08 - Geoffrey Tristram SSJE at St. Mary's Welwyn
Of tears and anger
13.7.08 - Usha Hull at St. Mary's Welwyn
Hope because of God's Word
13.7.08 - Colin Hull at St. Mary's Welwyn and Ayot St Peter
Love bade me welcome
6.7.08 - Diane Whittaker at St. Mary's Welwyn
Who do you say I am ?
29.6.08 - Stephen Fielding at St. Mary's Welwyn and St Peter's Tewin
A Very Unsafe Question
29.6.08 - Usha Hull at St. Mary's Parish Communion
The hope of the Glory of God
15.6.08 - Stephen Fielding at Ayot St. Peter's & St Peter's Tewin
Reach out in Faith
8.6.08 - Usha Hull at St Mary's Evensong
Call of Matthew
8.6.08 - Catherine Jupp at St Mary's & Ayot St. Peter's
Living Symbolism
1.6.08 - Susannah Underwood at St Mary's
Be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might
25.5.08 - Stephen Fielding at St Peter's Tewin & St. Mary's
The Dance of the Trinity
18.5.08 - Susannah Underwood at Tewin (Evensong) and Ayot St. Peter
By the Same Spirit
11.5.08 - Stephen Fielding at St Mary's and Ayot St Peter
The Return of the Son
4.5.08 - Colin Hull at Ayot St Peter
The Eyes of the Heart
23.4.08 - Usha Hull at Woolmer Green & Tewin
Judgement and Tears
13.4.08 - Susannah Underwood at Welwyn Evensong
Metaphor and Imagery
13.4.08 - Alan Winton at Welwyn & Ayot St Peter
Emmaus Road
6.4.08 - Julia Boothby at Datchworth and Woolmer Green
"We had hoped...."
6.4.08 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Following Thomas
30.3.08 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's
Love as Strong as Death
23.3.08 - Usha Hull at St Mary's Evensong on Easter Sunday
Love one Another
20.3.08 - Stephen Fielding at St Mary's on Maundy Thursday
Mediatation on Forgiveness
17.3.08 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Compline in Holy Week
Son of Man, can these Dry Bones Live?
9.3.08 - Stephen Fielding at All Saint's, Datchworth
Dry Bones & New Hope
9.3.08 - Colin Hull at St Mary's & Ayot St. Peter
There Came a Woman of Samaria
24.2.08 - Stephen Fielding at St Mary's & Ayot St. Peter
Beauty So Ancient, So New
17.2.08 - Usha Hull at All Saints, Datchworth
The Feast of Enoughness
10.2.08 - Lent 1 - Susannah Underwood at St Mary's
Thoughts on Prayer
6.2.08 - Ash Wednesday - Julia Boothby
God has a Plan
4.2.08 - Stephen Fielding at St Peter's Tewin
Candlemas
3.2.08 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Welwyn
Transfiguration and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
3.2.08 - Colin Hull at St Peter's Tewin & Ayot St Peter's
The Call of the First Disciples
27.1.08 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's and St Michael's
Now is the Time
27.1.08 - Usha Hull at Ayot St Peter & St Mary's, Welwyn
And the Israelites went through the sea on the dry ground
13.1.08 - Stephen Fielding at St Mary's, Welwyn
Sharing in Atrocity
30.12.07 - Colin Hull at Ayot St Peter
Wholly Innocent
30.12.07 - Usha Hull at St Peter's, Tewin
What has Jesus to say this morning ?
25.12.07 - Stephen Fielding at St Mary's, Welwyn
Christmas and the Real World
25.12.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's, Welwyn
John the Baptist
16.12.07 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's & St Michael's
Advent Hope
9.12.07 - Stephen Fielding at Ayot St Peter
Welcome
9.12.07 - Susannah Underwood at St Mary's, Welwyn
Advent
2.12.07 - Julia Boothby at Tewin & Woolmer Green
Using our Talents Joyfully!
25.11.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn
Letter to Tiberius
25.11.07 - Colin Hull at St Mary's Welwyn
The Lord is King
25.11.07 - Stephen Fielding at Tewin & Ayot St Peter
Hearts and Clothes
25.11.07 - Julia Bootby at St. Michael's Woolmer Green
Baptism & The Psalms
18.11.07 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Welwyn
Remembrance Sunday
11.11.07 - Susannah Underwood at St Mary's Welwyn
All Saints
4.11.07 - Colin Hull at St Mary's Welwyn
The Environment
28.10.07 - Alan Winton at the Civic Service in St Mary's Welwyn
Change
28.10.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's and Ayot St Peter
Believe and Live!
28.10.07 - Usha Hull at St Mary's Welwyn
Sticking with God
21.10.07 - Stephen Fielding at St. Peter's Tewin
Suffering
14.10.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Giving
30.09.07 - Stephen Fielding at St Mary's
St Michael and ET
30.09.07 - Colin Hull at St Michael's Woolmer Green
Brotherly Hate - Summer Evensong
2.09.07 - Colin Hull at St Peter's Tewin
Change
2.09.07 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's
Jacob's Dream - Summer Evensong
19.08.07 - Julia Boothby at St Michael's Woolmer Green
Jacob and Esau - Summer Evensong
12.08.07 - Susannah Underwood at St Peter's Tewin
Treasure in Heaven
12.08.07 - Catherine Jupp at St Mary's Welwyn
Abraham and the Sacrifice of Isaac - Summer Evensong
5.08.07 - Alan Winton at All Saints, Datchworth
The Rich Fool
5.08.07 - Usha Hull at St Mary's & St Michael's
Abraham's Hospitality - Summer Evensong
29.07.07 - Coralie McCluskey at Ayot St Peter
Into Great Silence
29.07.07 - Julia Bootby at St Mary's & St. Michael's
The call of Abraham: a journey of faith - Summer Evensong
22.07.07 - Usha Hull at St Mary's
Abraham and Sarah, Mary and Martha
22.07.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Bad Conscience
8.07.07 - Colin Hull at St Mary's Evensong
Money
5.07.07 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's
John the Baptist
24.06.07 - Julia Boothby at St Michael's and St Mary's
Living the right gospel
10.06.07 - Colin Hull at St Mary's
The image of God in us
3.06.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Pentecost
27.05.07 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's & St Michael's
Which way is "Up"
17.05.07 - Catherine Jupp on Ascension Day at All Saints,
Love one another as I have loved you
6.05.07 - Usha Hull at St Peter's, Tewin
Where would the church be without sheep ?
29.04.07 - Susannah Underwood at St Mary's Welwyn
The Resurrection of Jesus and our New Humanity
8.04.07 - Colin Hull at St Mary's Welwyn & Ayot St Peter
I once was lost but now am found
25.03.07 - Usha Hull at St Mary's Welwyn Evensong
Passion and Proportion
25.03.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Parish Eucharist
Joy You Shall Go Out With Joy
11.03.07 - Catherine Jupp at Datchworth & St Mary's Welwyn
Joy
11.03.07 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Welwyn
Why Is It So Hard To Share Faith ?
4.03.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn
The Upside-down Kingdom
25.02.07 - Catherine Jupp at Evensong
Annual Memorial Service
25.02.07 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Welwyn
A Love That Shows
25.02.07 - Usha Hull at St Mary's Welwyn
What Difference Does Faith Make ?
25.02.07 - Alan Winton at Tewin and Ayot
Ash Wednesday
21.02.07 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Welwyn
Creation, Evolution and Material Worries
11.02.07 - Colin Hull at St Mary's Welwyn
How different things might have turned out
28.01.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn
Marrying the Builder
14.01.07 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn
Good News for a Terrified Girl
24.12.06 - Colin Hull at St Mary's Welwyn
That almost indefinable thing we call ‘God's Grace’
10.12.06 - Sandra Campion at St Mary's Welwyn
Preparing for Christmas
3.12.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Welwyn
Giving to God - our first thought and not our last
26.11.06 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn & Ayot St Peter's
Living in the Present Moment
19.11.06 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn & St Peter's Tewin
Remembrance Day
12.11.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Welwyn & Ayot St Peter's
Waiting for Healing
22.10.06 - Alan Winton at St Mary's Welwyn
Three Young Men and their Money
15.10.06 - Colin Hull at St Mary's Welwyn
A Call to Christian Distinction
3.09.06 - Colin Hull St Mary's & Ayot St Peter
The Unnamed Women (one of a series of sermons on women in the Bible): 3.09.06 - Mick Simmons at All Saints Datchworth
The Armour of God
27.08.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's & Ayot St. Peter's
Deborah (one of a series of sermons on women in the Bible)
20.08.06 - Colin Hull
Sarah (one of a series of sermons on women in the Bible)
13.08.06 - Julia Boothby at Ayot St. Peter's
Our need for sacraments
13.08.06 - Alan Winton at St. Mary's
Haggar (one of a series of sermons on women in the Bible)
06.08.06 - Coralie McCluskey at All Saints, Datchworth
Reflections on the Transfiguration
06.08.06 - Alan Winton at St. Mary's
Like sheep without a shepherd
23.7.06 - Julia Boothby at Tewin & Ayot St. Peter
Praying for Peace in the Middle East
23.7.06 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Healing of the Gerasene Demoniac
25.5.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Evensong
Jesus calms the storm
25.6.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's and St Michaels
Ascension
25.5.06 - Julia Boothby at St Peter's, Tewin
Cruise Liner or Icebreaker ?
30.4.06 - Sandra Campion at St Mary's

Good Friday 14.04.06 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
The Passion according to John
I. John 18.1-11
II. John 18.12-27
III. John 18.28-38a
IV John 18.38b-19.16
V. John 19.17-27
VI. John 19.28-37

When we are angry
19.3.06 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
'Thy Will Be Done'
5.3.06 - Sandra Campion at St Mary's
Signs of the Times
3.3.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's for the
Women's World Day of Prayer
Memorial Service
26.2.06 - Revd. Jane Hatton at St Mary's
The Transfiguration
26.2.06 - Revd. Julia Boothby at St Michaels's
Baptism
19.2.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's at Evensong
St Paul
12.2.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's at Evensong
Jesus heals a leper
12.2.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's at 8 o'clock
Human Rights and St Paul
5.2.06 - Alan Winton at St Michael's and All Saints, Datchworth
There is an old Jewish saying...
22.1.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's
Come and See
15.1.06 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's
Journeys
8.1.06 - Catherine Jupp at St Mary's
Mary, The Shepherds and a Cardinal
1.1.06 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
The Word
25.12.05 - Julia Boothby at Midnight at St Mary's
God’s Peace in an Anxious World
11.12.05 - Susannah Underwood at St Mary's
There's a wideness to God's mercy
4.12.05 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
"Come and See"
27.11.05 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's
An Advent challenge to complacency and lack of confidence
27.11.05 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Stewardship Sunday
20.11.05 - Julia Boothby at St Michael's, Woolmer Green
Stewardship Sunday
20.11.05 - Sandra Campion at 9.30 at St Mary's
Memories and Remembrance
13.11.05 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Pray for Rulers
6.11.05 - Catherine Jupp at St Mary's and Ayot St Peter's
Remembering on All Soul's Day
2.11.05 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
You are a Saint
30.10.05 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at 8.00 at St Mary's Welwyn
If you’re concerned about the spiritual life of children, where is yours?
23.10.05 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at 9.30 at St Mary's Welwyn
Sermon
4.9.05 - Julia Boothby at 9.30 at St Mary's Welwyn
Sermon
28.8.05 - Alan Winton at 9.30 at St Mary's Welwyn
A Living Sacrifice, not the best of us, but all of us
21.8.05 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at Ayot St Peter's
Miracles
14.8.05 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Evensong
Stepping Out - Taking the Risk
7.8.05 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Mary's at 8.00
Is there anyone up there ?
7.8.05 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Michaels
Sermon
17.07.05 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's at 9.30
Psalm 63
10.07.05 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Evensong
Furlough Sermon
3.07.05 - Andrew Proud at St Mary's at 9.30
Sermon
29.05.05 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Evensong
"The family that eats together stays together"
24.03.05 - Alan Winton on Maundy Thursday at St Mary's
New Beginnings
27.02.05 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's Evensong
Temptation, Evil & Freedom
13.02.05 - Alan Winton at St Mary's at 9.30
Meditation for the beginning of Lent
10.02.05 - Alan Winton at St Mary's on Thursday midday
Confronting Sin without Condemnation
9.02.05 - Alan Winton at St Mary's on Ash Wednesday
The Glory of Thy People Israel
30.01.05 - Colin Hull at St Mary's at 9.30
Finding Fresh Expressions of Church
16.01.05 - Alan Winton at St Mary's at 9.30
Christmas Day
25.12.04 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's and Ayot St Peter's
Ready for Christmas ?
19.12.04 - Julia Boothby at St Michael's
Witness
12.12.04 - Rob Eardley at St Mary's at 9.30
Come Lord Jesus!
28.11.04 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's and St Michael's
Stewardship
21.11.04 - Catherine Jupp at St Mary's and St Michael's
From Fear to Faith
14.11.04 - Julia Boothby at Evensong at St Mary's
Remembrance Day Parade Service
14.11.04 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's
Remembrance Sunday
14.11.04 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's at 9.30
A View from Beyond the Grave
7.11.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at Datchworth & Woolmer Green
Authority
7.11.04 - Sandra Campion at St Mary's & Ayot St Peter's
I Know That My Redeemer Lives
7.11.04 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's at 8.00
Sermon for All Souls
31.10.04 - Alan Winton at St Peter's Tewin
Sermon for All Saints
31.10.04 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's
Sermon for the Healing Service
Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity - 17.10.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Persistence
Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity - 17.10.04 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's, Welwyn at 8.00
Healing and Wholeness
Eighteenteenth Sunday after Trinity - 10.10.04 - Julia Boothby at St Mary's, Welwyn at 9.30
Gratitude: "This Attitude is NO Platitude
Eighteenteenth Sunday after Trinity - 10.10.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Mary's, Welwyn at 8.00
Team Ministry
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity - 3.10.04 - Coralie McCluskey at St Peter's Tewin
His Way: The road less traveled
Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity - 26.09.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Michael's, Woolmer Green
Values
Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity - 19.9.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Michael's
Friendship and Food
Twelfth Sunday after Trinity - 29.8.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Run with Determination
Tenth Sunday after Trinity - 15.8.04 - Catherine Jupp at St Mary's
The presence of Christ in our lives will kindle and fire, and division will sometimes be inevitable
Tenth Sunday after Trinity - 15.8.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Michael's
God wants to give your something
Ninth Sunday after Trinity - 8.8.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Mary's and Ayot St. Peter's
No Hiding Place - Where do we find Him?
Eighth Sunday after Trinity - 1.8.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Michael's
Faith is not a competition
St James the Apostle - 25.7.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Down is up, to serve is to lead, death is not the end of life
St James the Apostle - 25.7.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at Ayot St Peter's
The better part
Sixth Sunday after Trinity - 18.7.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu
Is there anything I can truly count on?
Fifth Sunday after Trinity - 11.7.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu
Asking the right questions
Fifth Sunday after Trinity - 11.7.04 - Alan Winton
Freedom for Maximum Living
Third Sunday after Trinity - 27.6.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu
Nothing But The Truth - Come clean about yourself
Trinity Sunday - 6.6.04 at Ayot St Peter's - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu
What's the meaning of this ?
Pentecost - 30.5.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu
Learning to trust and saying farewell
Ascension Day - 20.5.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's at 8pm
The Unexpected Messiah
Easter 2 - 18.4.04 - Colin Hull at St Mary's Evensong
Should all Easter eggs be chocolate ?
Easter Day - 11.4.04 - Alan Winton at St Peter's and St Mary's
But who is bowing down now ?
Palm Sunday - 4.4.04 - Amatu Onundu Christian-Iwuagwu at St Mary's
Mothering v Smothering
Mothering Sunday - 21.3.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Searching for meaning, sin and suffering
Third Sunday in Lent - 14.3.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Temptation!
First Sunday in Lent - 29.2.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
The Transfiguration - Jesus came down empty handed
Last Sunday before Lent - 22.2.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
The unworthy are accepted
3rd Sunday before Lent - 8.2.04 - Colin Hull at St Mary's
The Great Sale
Baptism of Christ - 11.1.04 - Colin Hull at St Mary's
Joseph of Nazareth - A father's story
Christmas 2 - 4.1.04 - Colin Hull at St Mary's
Watching children grow up
Epiphany 2 - 16.1.04 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
Eats, Shoots and Leaves
Advent 2 - 7.12.03 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
The search for foundations in public life
Annual Civic Service - 26.10.03 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
What one thing do you lack ?
Trinity 17 - 12.10.03 - Alan Winton at St Michael's
Commitment
Trinity 15 - 28.9.03 - Alan Winton at St Mary's
What's in a name ?
St Matthew - Apostle & Evangelist- 21.9.03 - Sandra Campion at St Mary's
"Friendship & Dinner Parties"
St Matthew - Apostle & Evangelist- 21.9.03 - Alan Winton at Ayot St Peter's
"By Tube to Paradise"
Trinity 13 - 14.9.03 - Alan Winton
Sermon on Jonah
Choral Evensong on the Patronal Festrival - 7.9.03 - Colin Hull
Sermon on Habukkuk
Choral Evensong on the 6th Sunday after Trinity - 27.7.03 - Colin Hull
Our place in the ''Succession''
7th in Easter - 1.6.03 - Vic Brown
"Abide in Christ"
5th in Easter - 18.5.03 - Dennis L Stamps
"With Palm Branches in our hands..."
Address at 8.00 Holy Communion in St Mary's 13.4.03 - Coralie McCluskey
Lenten reflections on the story of the woman caught in adultery
Meditation for Mid-day Prayer - 6.3.03 - Alan Winton
The Healing Ministry
Sunday next before Lent - 2.3.03 - June Fordham
How can we catch a glimpse of the “invisible God”?
2nd before Lent - 23.2.03 - Alan Winton
Do we really only have the alternatives of either caving into tyranny or outright war ?
4th before Lent - 9.2.03 - Alan Winton
Reflecting on Jesus' baptism and ours
Baptism of Christ - 12.1.03 - Alan Winton
Time to Ponder ?
Christmas 1 - 29.12.02 - Alan Winton
Midnight Communion
Christmas Night - Alan Winton
Faithful Stewards of God's Truth
Advent 3 - 15.12.02: Sandra Campion
Why does Mark’s Gospel not begin with the birth of Jesus?
Advent 2 – 8.12.2002: Alan Winton
Help for living in frightening times
Advent 1 – 1.12.2002: Coralie McCluskey
Stewardship and the Parable of the Talents
Stewardship Sunday: 17.11.02: Alan Winton
A sermon for Remembrance Sunday
10th November 2002, Alan Winton
The Church is to be a welcoming, serving community, demonstrating that the goal of faith is the fullness of life which Christ offers to all.
Trinity 20: 13.10.02, Alan Winton
What sort of priests and religious leaders do we need ?
Trinity 16: 15.9.02, Alan Winton
Good News or True Prophet ?
Trinity 15: 8.9.02, Evensong, Ayot St Peter's, Alan Winton
The call of Moses, encountering God in the burning bush
Trinity 14: 1.9.02, Parish Communion, Alan Winton