Sermon preached by the Reverend Robert Green 10th May 2026 Anne Sullivan was born in Massachusetts in 1866, and at the age of five contracted the eye disease of trachoma, and was left partially blind. This meant that she had no real reading or writing skills, but despite this she…

Sermon preached by The Reverend Robert Green 12th April 2026 On 9th November 1989 the Berlin Wall was breached. After nearly 30 years suddenly it was a barrier no more. I remember it well as the following week I was due to take an Assembly at the Middle Church School…

Sermon for Mothering Sunday, Sherborne Abbey by Katie Windle I recently read a remarkable book called ‘Eye can write’ about a boy called Jonathan Bryan, who was born with severe cerebral palsy, but by the age of 12 had learnt to write beautiful poetry and started a charity to help…

Sermon preached by The Reverend Robert Green Behold the Lamb of God John 1 Twice in our Gospel Reading, John the Baptist proclaims Jesus as the “Lamb of God”, and in these two illustrations we have two very different artistic interpretations of this title. One by Francisco de Zurbaran dating…

Sermon Preached by The Reverend Robert Green 8th February 2026 Isn’t it interesting that after all this time, this passage from the Sermon on the Mount, which was our Gospel reading this morning, resonates with us today. ‘Don’t worry’.  It is all too easy to say, but not so easy…

Sermon for All Saints 2nd November 2025 Luke 6.20-31 Today is All Saints’ Day, and our Gospel reading is the beatitudes, Christ giving us all His blessing and giving us a blueprint for saintly living, and warnings for those things that lead to less saintly behaviour. Luke’s account is the…