Here at St George's we are lucky to have a number of people who preach regularly. They include the vicar, curate and the readers as well as visiting preachers who are invited to join us from time to time.  Some of their sermons are available here to download so that you can read them and think them through.  

A sermon is a proclamation - a call to the congregation to be transformed.  The sermon is part of the conversation between God and his people which leads to conversion and is, therefore, sacramental.  The sermon is not just a piece of intellectual or entertaining (or, even, boring) fluff in the middle of a Sunday service, but an integral part of the whole and often, therefore, unable to stand alone: it belongs within that act of worship.

Sometimes this is why the preacher chooses not to put the sermon on this website; other times it's because it hasn't been written out fully, or needs further work.  Of course we, the congregation, often don't hear everything the preacher says and often can't remember it. Part of the task of the listener is to ask ourselves what it is that God is saying to us; what it is in the preacher's words that God wants us to hear. 

Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has said this about preaching:

"Why is it difficult to talk about God?  Because God is different, and the source of difference, and the source, the wellspring of change.  It is difficult because when we draw near to God things change unpredictably.  The bread and wine become the instruments of the light and life of Christ delivered into our hands and into our lives.  It is difficult because Christian speech is about silence and the Word, about dying and rising.  That is why it is the challenging role  of the preacher, wrestling with that difficulty, to remind us why difficulty matters.  Difficulty is central because change is difficult and difficult to understand. Transformation is not obvious.  It is about becoming other.  The preacher goes into the pulpit to proclaim that difficulty, that difference, proclaiming the events and the transactions that we really need to know about if we are not to be left locked up in a prison of our own imaginations and wills and feelings.  Preaching is springing us from the trap of our egos.  Which is why, of course, the pulpit is just the tip of the iceberg, a sign of that whole process of speaking and acting which attempts very inadequately to say what it is that has changed through that unspeakable transaction, transformation and difference that occurs through Jesus Christ." 

 We hope that the sermons you read here will lead you to that transformation.

All sermons are saved as PDF files and will open in a new window.