Sermons
Insights to our Faith and the Scriptures.
Each week in their Sermons our Clergy and licensed Lay Preachers provide wonderful insights into our faith and the scriptures which provide the foundation for God’s word with us.
Every Sunday, an audio recording of the Sermon of the day delivered at Holy Spirit Church Kenmore is posted on the Website. Usually available by 12 noon, you can listen to the Sermon by selecting the ‘Listen” button (if available).
The below recent Sermons are also available along with previous Sermons, indexed by Speaker.
Recent Sermons
14 February 2021
Glynn Holland-Leam
WHAT'S THE POINT?
Glynn addresses the question "What's the Point" of life with all its down sides by pointing to the great love of God and the light of Christ.
7 February 2021
Dr. Neville Eckersley
GOD'S PROMISE
This week Neville reflects on God's eternal promise to be with us in times of trouble.
31 January 2021
Rev'd Jonathan Kemp
THE GOSPEL OF INCLUSION
Rev'd Jonathan reflects on the radical message that Jesus reaches out to touch those that others consider unclean.
24 January 2021
Rev'd Sandra Kjellgren
THE TIME HAS ARRIVED
Rev'd Sandra discusses the timing of Jesus's ministry on earth and its import for the Disciples, for the world and for us.
17 January 2021
Rev'd Jan Crombie
LISTEN FOR GOD'S CALL
Rev'd Jan considers how scripture teaches us to listen for God's call to inform our actions.
3 January 2021
Rev'd Jonathan Kemp
THE STAR AND THE WISE MEN
This week Rev’d Jonathan reflects on the journey of the Wise Men from the East to worship the new born Jesus.
27 December 2020
Rev'd Sandra Kjellgren
Good Things Come to those who wait
Rev'd Sandra describes the joy of Simeon and Anna having waited so long for Jesus.
20 December 2020
The Right Rev'd John Roundhill
Advent 4
The Parish welcomes Bishop John who provides some interesting perspectives on the scripture readings we have heard during Advent.
13 December 2020
Rev'd Jonathan Kemp
THE VALUE OF JOY
This week Rev’d Jonathan reflects on the promise of Joy brought during the lead up to Christmas.
6 December 2020
Rev'd Jan Crombie
ETERNITY AND MORTALITY
This week Rev’d Jan reflects on the intersection between God’s eternity and the human now.
22 November 2020
Glynn Holland-Leam
WERE YOU THERE
Today, Theology Student Glynn Holland-Leam reflects on the Gospel reading about caring for “the least of these” as though they are Jesus.
8 November 2020
Dr Rachel McFadyen
WISE AND FOOLISH
Today Rachel McFadyen explores the well-known text about being wise and foolish – in the ancient and modern context.
1 November 2020
Rev'd Sandra Kjellgren
ALL SAINTS SUNDAY
Today Rev’d Sandra asks, “Why are we looking at the Be-attitudes on All Saints Sunday?”
25 October 2020
Dr Neville Eckersley
CHANGE AND CONSTANCY
Today Dr Neville Eckersley reflects on how God is the one constant in our ever changing world.
18 October 2020
Rev'd Jonathan Kemp
THE PHARISES SIDE OF THE STORY
Today Rev’d Jonathan explores what the Pharises might have thought of Jesus’s response to the quesstion of paying taxes to Caesar.
11 October 2020
Rev'd Jan Crombie
WEDDING INVITATIONS
Today Rev’d Jan reflects on the Gospel Reading’s Parable, where rejection of a wedding invitation leads to dire consequences.
4 October 2020
Rev'd Jan Crombie
JESUS THE CORNERSTONE
Today Rev’d Jan reflects on the Gospel reading which describes Jesus as the Cornerstone of the Church.
27 September 2020
Dr Rachel McFadyen
WHERE DO YOU GET YOUR AUTHORITY?
Today Rachel reflects on the Gospel reading in which the Chief Priests in Jerusalem question Jesus about his authority.
20 September 2020
Rev'd Jan Crombie
GRUMBLING SUNDAY
Today Rev’d Jan addresses the readings where, in the Old Testament the Israelites grumbled to Moses about lack of food and in the Gospel reading labourers who had worked all day ...
13 September 2020
Rev'd Jonathan Kemp
FORGIVENESS
Today Rev’d Jonathan explores the Gospel reading about Forgiveness.
6 September 2020
Rev'd Sandra Kjellgren
LOST SHEEP
Today Rev’d Sandra reflects of the famous bible passage about the one lost sheep.
30 August 2020
David Rogers-Smith
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE GRACIOUS
Guest Speaker, David Rogers-Smith (Regional Officer with Bush Church Aid) reflects on the parable of the Prodigal Son.
23 August 2020
Rev'd Jan Crombie
NAMES AND NAMING
Today Rev’d Jan reflects on how special names are in our relationship with God.
16 August 2020
Glynn Holland-Leam
LEAP OF FAITH
Today Glynn Holland-Leam explores the readings for the day in the context of the relationship of faith.
9 August 2020
Dr Neville Eckersley
RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD
Today Dr Neville Eckersley reflects on how our faith can create the right relationship with God. Pentecost 10, Year A at Holy Spirit church, Kenmore-Brookfield parish.
2 August 2020
Rev'd Jonathan Kemp
LOAVES AND FISHES
Today Rev’d Jonathan reflects on the Gospel reading where Jesus feeds the Five Thousand with five barley loaves and two fish.
26 July 2020
Rev'd Sandra Kjellgren
THE VALUE OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
Jesus says “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure that lays hidden in a field. Someone found it and hid it and in great delight went off and sold everything he had and bought that field.”
19 July 2020
Rev'd David Dean
WHEAT AND WEEDS
Today’s Gospel passage contains one of Jesus’ challenging “Parables of the Kingdom”. I’d like to direct our attention to it this morning, it’s the one we know as “The Wheat and Weeds”
12 July 2020
Rev'd Jan Crombie
PENTECOST SIX
Today’s Sermon is based on the Parable of the Sower in the Gospel according to Matthew Chapter 13 beginning at Verse 1.
5 July 2020
Rev'd Graham Dorman
PENTECOST FIVE
How often do we make rods for our own backs? How often do we over-complicate things for ourselves by not actively listening to and appreciating what another is saying?
28 June 2020
Rev'd Sandra Kjellgren
PENTECOST FOUR
In the Gospel reading today we heard Jesus’ final words of encouragement to the twelve as he commissions them as ‘apostles’ and prepares them to be sent out on mission.