Parish Musings

This Advent Reflection was written by John Webb. Our reflection today is on Advent. The questions below may give us some things on which to reflect, as we enter into this Season of Advent. If there is something that speaks to you, stay with that, and do not feel...

Book review by the the Revd Dr John Littleton. Michael Trainor, 2021. Acts An Earth Bible Commentary About Earth’s Children: An Ecological Listening to The Acts of the Apostles (London: T&T Clark). Paperback edition. Pages 191. Kindle $45.90; Paperback $72.24;...

Book review by the the Revd Dr John Littleton. Jonathan Sacks, Morality Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (London: Hodder, 2021). First published by Hodder & Stoughton in 2020. This paperback edition with a new foreword by Justin Welby, Archbishop of...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 17 October, 2021. (Pentecost 21B) Readings: Job 38:1 - 7, 34 - 41 Psalm 104:1 - 10, 26 Hebrews 5:1 - 10 Mark 10:35 - 45 Click here to view the readings in full at the...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 10 October, 2021. (Pentecost 20B) Readings: Job 23:1-9, 16-17 Psalm 22:1-1 Hebrews 4:12 - 16 Mark 10:17 - 31 Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 3 October, 2021. (Pentecost 19B) Readings: Job 1:1, 2:1 - 10 Psalm 26 Hebrews 1:1 - 4, 2:5 - 12 Mark 10:2 - 16 Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 26 Septmber, 2021. (Pentecost 18B) Readings: Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20 - 22 James 5:12 - 20 Mark 9:38 - 50 Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 19 Septmber, 2021. (Pentecost 17B) Readings: Proverbs 31:10 - 31 Psalm 1 James 3:1 - 12 Mark 9:30 - 37 Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 12 Septmber, 2021. (Pentecost 16B) Readings: Proverbs 31:10 - 31 Psalm 1 James 1:20b - 25 Mark 8:27 - 38 Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Peter Sandeman on Sunday, 5 September, 2021. (Pentecost 15B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary When I’m asked to preach I have learned to first check the...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 29 August, 2021. (Pentecost 14B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away”  Song of Solomon 2:13...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 22 August, 2021. (Pentecost 13B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “Even heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you, much less...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 8 August, 2021. (Pentecost 11B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “I am convinced that neither death nor life…nor anything else in...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 1 August, 2021. (Pentecost 10B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “Jesus said to them ‘I am the bread of life.  Whoever comes to me...

This sermon was preached online to the congregation of Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 25 July, 2021. (Pentecost 9B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “There is a boy here who has five barley...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 4 July, 2021. (Pentecost 6B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “for whenever I am weak, then I am strong”  II Corinthians 12:10 I...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 27 June, 2021. (Pentecost 5B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “Jesus turned…and said, ‘who touched my clothes?’”  Mark 5:30 Touch...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 13 June, 2021. (Pentecost 3B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “For the love of Christ urges us on…”  2 Corinthians 6:14 At the...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 6 June, 2021. (Pentecost 2B) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “Jesus looked at those seated around him and said ‘Here are my mother...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Sunday, 23 May, 2021. (Pentecost B ) Readings: Acts 2:1-21 Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27, 16:4b-15 Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “…in our...

This sermon was preached at Saint Oswald’s Parkside by the Revd Canon Bill Goodes on Thursday, 13 May 2021. (Ascension) Click here to view the readings in full at the Vanderbilt Common Lectionary “This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the...