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  • Essays
    • A Theological reading of The Matrix
    • BA in Contextual Theology
    • Everything you wanted to know about Church (but were afraid to ask)
    • MA Dissertation 2019
    • Mission to the Waterways Communities Presentation 4 December 2019
    • Job – An operatic encounter with a transcendent God
    • OU Creative Writing eTMA 01
    • OU Creative Writing eTMA 02
    • OU creative writing 1.15
    • Dancing before the altar – for Vivienne
  • Praying the Rosary
  • Sermons 2007 (Yr C)
    • Epiphany 3 – 2007 – My First Sermon
    • 25 February – Polycarp homily
    • Mothering Sunday
    • Easter 4
    • Vocations Day
  • Sermons 2008 (Yr A)
    • 29 June – Sts Peter & Paul
    • Trinity 7
    • Trinity 8
    • Trinity 11
    • Trinity 12
    • Trinity 17
    • Trinity 18
    • Trinity 21 / Harvest
    • 9 November / Remembrance Sunday
    • 16 November 2008
    • Christ the King
    • Advent 3 2008
    • Christmas Eve (notes only)
  • Sermons 2009 (Yr B)
    • Epiphany 2
    • Lent 1 / St Davids Day
    • 24 May – Mattins Homily
    • Trinity 10 – Holy Mystery
    • Trinity Sunday
    • Advent 2
    • 5 December 2009 – Kent and Sussex Cyclists Carol Service
    • Advent 3 – Morning
    • Advent 3 – Evensong
    • Advent 4
    • Christmas Eve and Day
    • 27 December – John, Apostle and Evangelist
  • Sermons 2010 (Yr C)
    • Epiphany
    • Baptism of Christ
    • Epiphany 2 – Haiti
    • Epiphany 4
    • Second before Lent
    • St Valentine’s Day
    • Lent 1
    • Lent 2 – Evensong
    • Lent 3
    • Lent 4 Mothering Sunday Evensong
    • Palm Sunday
    • Easter Sunday
    • Easter 3
    • St George’s Day Scout Parade
    • Trinity 2
    • Trinity 8 – St James the Apostle – Evensong
    • Trinity 9 – UP
    • Trinity 10 – Rev
    • Feast of the Assumption of the BVM
    • 22 August
    • Trinity 14
    • Trinity 17 – Evensong
    • Trinity 18
    • Trinity 20
    • Sunday next before Advent
    • Advent 2 2010
    • Christmas Eve & Day
  • Sermons 2011 (Yr A)
    • Epiphany
    • Proper 1 – 6 February
    • 13 February
    • The Transfiguration – 6 March
    • Fukushima – Where is God in all this? 13 March
    • Lent 2: For God so loved the world
    • Mothering Sunday
    • Easter Sunday
    • 8 May – 1 Peter
    • 15 May 2011 – 1 Peter 2
    • 29 May – Cluster Farewell Service
    • 5 June
    • 26 June – Alton Abbey – St Benedict
    • Sunday 14th August 2011
    • 11 September 2011
    • Christ the King 2011
  • Sermons 2012 (Yr B)
    • Naming and Circumcision of Christ 2012
    • Epiphany
    • 3 Before Lent
    • Ash Wednesday 2012
    • Lent 1
    • Lent 2
    • Lent 3
    • Lent 5
    • Easter Sunday
    • Trinity 1
    • Trinity 6
    • Trinity 13
    • Trinity 14
    • Trinity 15
    • Trinity 18 – Harvest
    • Trinity 19
    • Remembrance Sunday
    • Advent Sunday
    • Christmas Day 2012
  • Sermons 2013 (Yr C)
    • Lent 2 2013
    • Lent 4 / Mothering Sunday
    • Palm Sunday
    • Easter Sunday
    • Easter 3
    • Easter 4
    • Easter 6
    • Pentecost
    • Trinity 4 – Beyond the Pale
    • Trinity 5 – Civic Service
    • Trinity 6
    • Trinity 8
    • Trinity 11 – Faith or Certainty?
    • Trinity 15 – Hate our families?
    • Trinity 15 – Evensong – Forgiveness
    • Harvest
    • Remembrance Sunday
    • 2 Before Advent – The signs of the times
    • Advent 2 – You brood of vipers!
    • Advent 3 – Are you the one?
    • Advent 4 – The ‘yes’ of Joseph
    • Christmas
  • Sermons 2014 (Yr A)
    • Epiphany – God as Google?
    • Baptism of Christ
    • The Presentation of Christ / Candlemas
    • 9 February – Salt, light, law…
    • Sunday next before Lent / Transfiguration
    • Ash Wednesday
    • Palm Sunday
    • Easter Sunday
    • Easter 2 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Easter 3 – The Road to Emmaus
    • Easter 4 – Shepherd, Gate, Lamb
    • Easter 5 – Jesus is the Way – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Easter 6
    • Ascension Day
    • Easter 7
    • Pentecost – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity Sunday
    • Trinity Sunday – Evensong
    • Trinity 1 – “I come not to bring peace but a sword”
    • Trinity 4
    • Trinity 7
    • Trinity 8
    • Trinity 9 “Lord I am not worthy to receive you”
    • Patronal Festival – The Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • Holy Cross Day
    • St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
    • 28 September – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 16 – Freeholder or tenant?
    • Trinity 18 – Render unto Caesar
    • Bible Sunday / Last of Trinity
    • The Sainthood of all believers
    • Remembrance Sunday – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • 2 before Advent – Using your talents?
    • Christ the King
    • Advent Sunday
    • Mothers Union Carol Service
    • Advent 2 – Fork Handles…
    • Advent 3 – Annemarie Woodward
    • Advent 4 – Do not be afraid
    • Christmas Eve
    • Christmas 1 – God’s Salvation – Rev’d Christopher Miles
  • Sermons 2015 (Yr B)
    • Epiphany 1
    • Baptism of Christ – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Epiphany 2 – Being Called
    • The Conversion of Paul
    • The claptrap of niceness vs. the true meaning of Jesus.
    • Contra bullying in Church and Stephen Fry!
    • Last Sunday before Lent – The Transfiguration
    • Lent 3 – Overturning the tables.
    • Lent 5 – Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground…
    • Palm Sunday – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Easter Day
    • Easter 3
    • St. George’s Day Parade
    • Easter 5
    • Easter 6 – The Pentecost of the Gentiles
    • Easter 7 – That we should be One.
    • Pentecost – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 1 – Is rationality overrated?
    • Trinity 4 – Talitha Koum
    • Trinity 5 – Civic Service
    • Trinity 6 – Giving for life
    • Trinity 7 – Giving for life 2
    • Trinity 8 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 9 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 10 – Do not grieve the Holy Spirit.
    • Trinity 11 – These Holy Mysteries…
    • Trinity 12 – Will you stay or will you go? – Annemarie Woodward
    • Patronal Festival – Rediscovering St. Mary
    • Trinity 16 – Who is the greatest?
    • Trinity 17 – Esther – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Luke the Evangelist
    • Bible Sunday – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • All Saints Day
    • Remembrance Sunday – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Advent Sunday
    • Advent Sunday Evensong
    • Mother’s Union Carol Service
    • Advent 2…Imagine
    • Advent 3
    • Christmas 2015
  • Sermons 2016 (Yr C)
    • Christmas 2
    • The Baptism of Christ – the Holy Spirit is not just for Pentecost
    • Epiphany 2 – Jesus is Lord!
    • Epiphany 3
    • Candlemas – Annemarie Woodward
    • The Transfiguration – St Seraphim of Sarov
    • Lent 2 – “Go and tell that fox”
    • Palm Sunday
    • Follow Me – by Annemarie Woodward
    • People of God – get up!
    • Even to the Gentiles…
    • Easter 6 – “Man proposes, but God disposes”
    • Easter 7 – Paul & Silas, the Magistrate’s perspective
    • Pentecost – “What has the Holy Spirit ever done for us?”
    • Trinity Sunday
    • Trinity 1 -Jesus heals the Centurion’s servant
    • Trinity 2 – “It’s not fair!”
    • Trinity 3
    • Trinity 4 – The demons of this world
    • Trinity 5 – Vocation – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Thomas the Apostle
    • Trinity 8 – Never too old for God
    • Trinity 10 – Fr Jacques Hamal
    • Trinity 11 – Ready, Steady…Wait. Annemarie Woodward
    • Trinity 12 – Running the race
    • Trinity 13 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 14 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 15 – Nicola Harvey
    • Trinity 16 – Of whom I am the worst
    • Trinity 17 – You cannot serve two masters
    • Trinity 18 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Harvest Festival
    • Trinity 21 – Pester Power
    • Trinity 22 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Fourth before Advent
    • Christ the King
    • Advent 2
    • Advent 3 – Annemarie Woodward
    • Advent 4 – To dream God’s dreams
    • Christmas -A Light in the Darkness
  • Sermons 2017 (Year A)
    • Christmas 2 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • The Baptism of Christ
    • Epiphany 2 – To be Corinithian
    • Epiphany 3
    • The Presentation of Christ
    • 4th Before Lent
    • 3rd before Lent
    • 2nd Before Lent – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Last Sunday before Lent
    • Lent 1
    • Lent 2
    • Lent 3 – Living Water
    • Mothering Sunday (Script)
    • Lent 5 – Kelly Parsons
    • Palm Sunday – Rev Christopher Miles
    • Maundy Thursday
    • Easter Sunday
    • Easter 3 – Annemarie Woodward
    • Easter 5 – Following Jesus – Rev Christopher Miles
    • Easter 6 – What do you worship?
    • Ascension Day
    • Pentecost – A reversal of Babel
    • Trinity Sunday
    • Trinity 4 – Stop being so grown up!
    • Trinity 5
    • Trinity 6 – The practice of the presence of God
    • Trinity 6 – Evensong – only the good die young
    • Trinity 7 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • The Transfiguration
    • 13 August – Patronal – The Persecuted Church
    • Trinity 11 – Revd Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 12 – Nicky Harvey
    • Trinity 13 – British Social Attitudes Survey
    • Trinity 14 – Forgive us our sins
    • Trinity 15 – Jonah
    • Trinity 17 – Running the race
    • Trinity 18 – Wiping away the tears
    • Remembrance Sunday
    • Parable of the Talents – 2 before Advent – Rev Nicky Harvey
    • Christ the King – Kelly Parsons
    • Advent Sunday
    • Advent 2 – Hubris and humility
    • Advent 3 – Rev Nicky Harvey
    • Advent 4 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Christmas 1 – Rev Nicky Harvey
  • Sermons 2018 (Year B)
    • The Baptism of Jesus / Epiphany 1
    • Epiphany 2
    • Epiphany 3 – Water into Wine – Rev Nicky Harvey
    • Presentation of Christ in the Temple – Rev Christopher Miles
    • 2nd before Lent – Who is Jesus?
    • Sunday before Lent – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Lent 1 – Rev Nicky Harvey
    • Lent 2 – Kelly Parsons
    • Lent 3
    • Lent 5
    • Palm Sunday – Rev Christopher Miles
    • Easter 3
    • Easter 5
    • Easter 6
    • Pentecost
    • Trinity Sunday 2018
    • Trinity 3 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 5 – “May justice and mercy be seen in all the earth”
    • Trinity 6 – “By the help of God, I will.”
    • Trinity 7 – The beheading of John the Baptist
    • St Mary Magdalene
    • “My flesh is real food…”
    • Trinity 13 – “To whom can we go?”
    • Trinity 14 – Listen rather than Tweet
    • Trinity 15 – Humble Access
    • Trinity 17
    • Trinity 18 – Rev Nicky Harvey’s first communion
    • Trinity 20 – Job rages at the absence of God
    • Christianity & Judaism
    • Remembrance Sunday
    • Never, Never, Never Give In…Annemarie Woodward
    • Advent Sunday – A New (and Old) Hope
    • Advent 3 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Christmas Eve / Day 2018 – The Shepherds.
  • Sermons 2019 (Year C)
    • Epiphany
    • Third Sunday of Epiphany – 20th January 2019 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Candlemas 2019
    • Fourth before Lent – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Second before Lent – Jesus calms the storm
    • Sunday next before Lent – Transfiguration
    • Easter 6 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 1 – Elijah
    • Trinity 1 – Evensong – John the Baptist
    • Civic Service – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Amos, Martha & Mary
    • Trinity 6 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 7 – Meaningless! Meaningless?
    • Trinity 10 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 11 – Hospitality
    • Trinity 13 – Let heaven rejoice.
    • Trinity 14
    • Kent County Association of Change Ringers – 5 October
    • Harvest Thanksgiving
    • Trinity 17 – Naaman & the ten other lepers
    • Bible Sunday 2019
    • Advent 3
    • Christmas 1 – Rev'd Christopher Miles
  • Sermons 2020 (Year A)
    • Epiphany
    • Epiphany 3 – Rev'd Christopher Miles
    • Third Sunday before Lent
    • Sunday next before Lent – The Transfiguration
    • Sunday 21 June 2020 – Trinity 2
    • Sunday 28 June 2020 – Trinity 3
    • Trinity 4 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 5 – My word shall not return to me empty
    • Trinity 6
    • Trinity 7 – What can God do for you?
    • Patronal Festival of the BVM 16 August 2020
    • Trinity 11 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 12
    • Trinity 13 – Gather in my name.
    • Trinity 14 – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 16 – Farewell and God bless to Rev’d Nicky
    • Harvest in a time of pandemic
    • Trinity 18 – Invited to the banquet
    • All Saints Day
    • Second before Advent – Jesus is Coming, Look Busy!
    • Christ the King
    • Advent Sunday – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Sunday 6 December – Advent 2
    • Advent 3 / Gaudete Sunday 2020
    • Fourth Sunday of Advent 2020
    • St John – 27 December 2020
  • Sermons 2021 (Year B)
    • Epiphany 2021
    • The Baptism of Christ
    • The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
    • Candlemas
    • Second Sunday before Lent
    • Sunday next before Lent – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Lent 1 – The Ark of Lockdown
    • Lent 2
    • Lent 3
    • Mothering Sunday
    • Talk given to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Elders Association on 25 March 2021
    • Palm Sunday 2021
    • Maundy Thursday
    • Easter 2 – Saint Thomas – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Easter 3 – Doubting Disciples
    • Easter 4 – The name above all names.
    • APCM 2021 – Vicar’s Reflection
    • Easter 6
    • Pentecost
    • Trinity Sunday
    • Trinity 2 – Never judge a book by its cover
    • Trinity 3 – Faith in stormy times…
    • Trinity 4 – The Church as place of healing – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 5 – A prophet without honour
    • Trinity 6 – A prophet beheaded
    • Trinity 7 – Christ the Good Shepherd
    • Trinity 8 / James the Apostle – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • Trinity 9
    • Trinity 15
    • Trinity 17
    • Trinity 18
    • Harvest Festival
    • Trinity 20 – Servanthood – Rev’d Christopher Miles
    • All Saints / Leaving Service
    • Advent Sunday
    • Advent 4
  • Sermons 2022 (Year C)
    • Sunday 6th February 2022
    • Epiphany 6 / 3rd Before Lent
    • Lent 2
  • Sermons 2023 (Year A)
    • Christmas 2 – Holy Innocents

Mission to the Waterways Communities Presentation 4 December 2019

Mission to the Waterways Communties

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