Sermons

17th January 2021 Russell Braund

Preparing the Way – Mark 1:9-14

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As I said last week, in this first chapter Mark is laying the foundations of the account of Jesus’ life and mission, he is about to unfold. He is concise and bold in this opening chapter, which will be reflected throughout the gospel. He wants this chapter to be the one through which you read…
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10th January 2021 Russell Braund

Preparing the Way – Mark 1:1-8

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We begin a new series in Mark today, reflecting on the mission of Jesus. Details can be found on the website. You will remember that when we started morning prayer early last year, we began with reading through Mark. It would be worth reading the gospel again as a whole, to get the big picture,…
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3rd January 2021 Russell Braund

Matthew 2: ‘From you shall come a ruler…’

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The New Year in the Christian calendar begins with the account of the visit of the Magi and Herod’s slaughter of children two years old or younger. It is not a particularly cheerful start and maybe not the passage you would hope for at the beginning of the year. In many parts of the Christian…
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20th December 2020 Russell Braund

Advent 4: John 1 In the beginning

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If asked for my favourite passage in the Bible I would be torn between Philippians 2:5-11 and these opening verses of John’s gospel. I lik-e the language, the play on words and the fact that it states the light shone in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it/cannot extinguish it/has never put it…
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29th November 2020 Russell Braund

First Sunday in Advent

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Light in the darkness. Genesis 3:1-13 Do you remember Bazooka Joe’s? If you do, you are a ‘60s kid. For the uninitiated, Bazooka Joe’s were a bright pink lump of bubble gum which contained a tiny comic strip inside the wrapper - and my mum wouldn’t let me have it. It was full of sugar…
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22nd November 2020 Ruth Millard

God has empathy for us when we are isolated

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I wonder - what did you learn in lockdown? What if you learned something profound without even realising it? That’s what I want to talk about today My name is Ruth and for over seven years I have run a Christians Against Poverty (CAP)Debt Centre at Gillingham Baptist Church I am so grateful for you…
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8th November 2020 Russell Braund

Remembrance Sunday 2020

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Isaiah 2:2-5; John 14:27 ‘We will remember them. Lest we forget. Our glorious dead.’ On the gates of the memorial garden in Horley are the words ‘Their name liveth evermore.’ These different phrases are spoken every year at this time both on Remembrance Sunday and on 11th November as ceremonies taking place at memorials across…
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25th October 2020 Russell Braund

Church – but not as we know it: fellowship

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In 1993 I was asked to apply for the headship of a particular Church of England school. It was associated with the local parish church which is High Anglican. That means it is Catholic in practice but still within the Anglican communion. I really wasn’t sure about this as an evangelical Baptist. Was Catholic Christianity…
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