Speaking from Leviticus 19:1-2 and Matthew 5:38-48, Rev'd Jamie Franklin demonstrates the connection between ethics and participating in the character of God and offers the encouragement that this change happens gradually as we make day-to-day decisions to be faithful to him. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on YouTube. The...

Speaking from Matthew 4:12-23, Jamie Franklin answers the central questions about the necessary practice of repentance: What is repentance? Why is it necessary? How do we go about it? How often should we do it? And what are its fruits? He encourages listeners that is only through repentance that we can draw closer to God and heal our broken relationships with other people. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast...

Speaking on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord from Matthew 3:13-17, the Rev'd Dr Jamie Franklin shows us that the Gospel is God's gift to the world and not something that we conjure up by our own efforts. He also reflects upon the significance of baptising his infant child Alexander and the responsibility of parents, godparents and the household of faith towards children. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast...

During this Christmas season, we must recognise that Jesus Christ was born into the midst of a cosmic battle between good and evil. He would bear the light sacrificially through his life of witnessing to the truth. In him, we are called to continue the struggle. Rev'd Jamie Franklin speaks from Isaiah 9:1-7 and Luke 2:1-14, encouraging us to take our place in this battle wherever and however we are called. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening....

Rev Daniel French preaches on Isaiah 35.1-10 reminding us that God has not created us for perpetual  spiritual exile but in Jesus offers a Holy Way out.  When times are really tough or we are in deepest anxiety the Bible  wants us know that God’s will draw us out. 

The wild man in the desert preaches a gospel of repentance to prepare the way for God's Christ. Are we prepared to allow God to interrupt our socially comfortable and respectable existences and to address our souls in the way that he chooses? For this second Sunday of Advent, Rev'd Jamie Franklin speaks from Matthew 3:1-12 and encourages listeners to heed the words of John the Baptist: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope...

The modern world does everything in its power to numb our spiritual senses and distract our souls from longing for the presence of Christ in our lives. Advent gives us a special opportunity to push back. For this First Sunday of Advent, Rev'd Jamie Franklin encourages listeners to heed the words of Christ in Matthew 24:37-44: "Watch, therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming." Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As...

Speaking from Luke 20:27-38, Rev'd Jamie Franklin looks at Christ's teaching that there there will be no marriage in heaven. What can we learn from this passage about the nature of the resurrection, and marriage, family and single life here on earth? Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on YouTube. The music on this podcast was...

In this sermon for All Saints' Day, Rev'd Jamie Franklin argues that the Church is the community in which saints are made. Far from an individualistic and atomised understanding of the Christian faith, All Saints' Day helps us to consider the saints around us and in heaven and how these many images of Christ call us onward in our journey towards holiness. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and...

Speaking from the Luke's Gospel on the story of Zacchaeus the chief tax collector, Rev'd Jamie encourages us, like Zacchaeus, to recognise that our deepest need is met only in Christ and to realise that only his grace can truly lead to our transformation. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on YouTube. The music on this podcast...

Speaking from Jesus' parable in Luke 18:9-14, the Rev'd Jamie Franklin asks how we can cultivate humility and repentance in our Christian lives and avoid the peril of self-righteous religious pride. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on YouTube. The music on this podcast was composed and recorded by Jamie Franklin and is to be...

Speaking from Luke 17:11-19 and 2 Timothy 2:8-13, Rev'd Jamie Franklin asks what lessons we can learn from the thankful Samaritan who returned to Christ to give thanks for his healing from leprosy. Rev'd Jamie reminds us that no-one is disqualified from seeking the grace of God and that God is seeking that we remember the giver along with his gifts. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current...

Speaking from Luke 17:5-10, the Rev'd Jamie Franklin encourages listeners to have "mustard-seed faith" in daily acts of entrusting ourselves to God. Seeing the world with the eyes of faith is also central to Harvest Festival, which the Church of England celebrates on Sunday 2nd October. In this festival we remember that all we have is a gift of God and that our offering of ourselves is an offering of what he has already given to us. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope...

Speaking from Luke 14:1,7-14, Rev'd Jamie Franklin invites us to shun religious pride and follow in the path of Jesus in humbling ourselves before God and men. We can do this by showing patient endurance in affliction, practicing daily repentance and serving those who cannot repay us. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on...

"Lord, teach us to pray," said the disciples to Jesus. Many people feel that they would like to pray more and better but they feel lost and without direction. In the words and actions of Jesus, we can find guidance and strength to draw closer to God. In this sermon we focus on our desires, our habits and what we might say to God when we pray, taking our cues from the great prayer that our Lord gave to us. Our Scripture is taken from the Gospel of Luke 11:1-13 and was recorded by Revd Jamie...

Revd Jamie Franklin speaks on the transforming power of God's love in Christ - how it changed the life of the Apostle Peter and how it might change us still today. This sermon is taken from the Scriptures Acts 5:27-32,40-41, Rev. 5:1-11 and John 21:1-19. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on YouTube! "Nottingham" (8.8.8.6)...

For the fourth Sunday of Easter, Rev'd Dr Jamie Franklin speaks from John 10:27-30 on what it means to hear the voice of Christ. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on YouTube!

Rev Daniel French reflects on part of the apocalyptic discourse of Christ in Matthew 24. 4-14, "wars and rumours of wars."  This short talk is also a summary of the the first Lent talk that Daniel gave last Thursday.  The podcast is going out also on the Catacomb FM podcast.  How can raise Christians resilient to this difficult age?

Speaking from Luke 4:1-13, Rev'd Jamie Franklin reflects on the temptation of Christ in the Wilderness. The Devil tempts Christ with bread, authority and a dramatic display of his power. But what is wrong with these things and how does imitating Christ in his rejection of them affect our own discipleship? Additionally how might we resist temptation during the season of Lent and more generally in our own lives? Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed...

Rev Jamie Franklin speaks from Joel 2:12-17 and Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 on the challenge and promise of Lent. What is Lent and how should we engage with it? How can we guard ourselves from legalism and hypocrisy? What special opportunities does Lent hold out for us as we seek to draw closer to the Lord through repentance, prayer and devotion? Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs...

Speaking from Luke 6:39-45, Reverend Jamie Franklin gives some ideas about how we might pursue a non-judgmental approach to life. Christ's teaching helps us to see that, rather than going around pointing the finger at other people, we should first focus on repenting of our own sin and learning from godly examples that the Lord has put around us. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current...

Reverend Jamie Franklin speaks from 1 Samuel 26 and Luke 6:27-38 on one of the hardest aspects of our Christian life: loving our enemies. What does it mean to do this? Why does God ask us to do such a strange and counterintuitive thing? And are there are practical ways that we can approach this to make it easier? Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major...

Speaking from Isaiah 6:1-8 and Luke 5:1-11, Rev Jamie Franklin touches on themes of faith at the point of weakness, repentance in response to God's holiness and the grace of God's absolution and forgiveness. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on YouTube!

In this sermon based on Jeremiah 1:17-19 and Luke 4:21-30, Rev'd Jamie Franklin talks about the way that the Church and Christians can arrogantly reject the work and the word of God when it arises in their midst because it runs contrary to their expectations or because it hurts their religious pride. In place of this mindset, he suggests that, in order to be truly prophetic, we must be attentive to our sinfulness, cultivate humility and practice love for the world around us. Thank you for...

In this week's sermon, Jamie Franklin speaks from Nehemiah 8:2-10 arguing that, like the people of Israel at the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, the Church today can be renewed through attention to the word of God and its faithful proclamation. Thank you for supporting the sermon audio podcast. We hope you have enjoyed listening. As always our sister podcast Irreverend: Faith and Current Affairs can be found on all major podcast providers and on YouTube!