Sermons and Teaching
Want to catch up on sermons you may have missed from St Paul's?
Or just want to go back over something?
We are recording lots of talks from our Sunday services, as well as other teaching we offer, to help go back over what God might have to say over the weeks.
26th Oct 2025:
Community Living - Sunday Communion
Acts 2: 42-47
Luke 22:14-20
Revd Abby sees how our Sunday services connect with the early church in Acts. Why does it matter that we gather each week and what can we gain from our Sunday services that we can't get alone?
2nd Nov 2025:
Community Living - Prayer
Acts 4: 23-31
Rosie Lee looks at how prayer can transform us. What does praying boldly mean for us? How can that help shape us as a community? What did the early church in Acts see happen as a result of their bold prayers?
19th Oct 2025:
Community Living - Shared Stories & Black History Month
Acts 9: 20-31
Luke 4:16-21
Neil Masih starts our series on Community Living, thinking about the stories we share and linking it to racial justice as part of Black History Month. How does God use the outsider and the outcast?
12th Oct 2025:
Restoration Nation -Recommitting to the Lord
Nehemiah 9: 1-3, 6-7, 32-38
Luke 3: 7-18
Revd Mary ends our series on Nehemiah, looking at how God's people cried out to him in an act of repentance and recommitment. What might God be saying to us about repentance and recommitting?
5th Oct 2025:
Restoration Nation -Receiving the Word
Nehemiah 8: 1-12
God's word was first given to help shape community and sustain his people. Revd Abby thinks about how it was reintroduced to the people in Nehemiah's time and how we should be receiving scripture in the same way.
28th Sept 2025:
Restoration Nation -Reorganising the Team
Nehemiah 7:1-7a, 70-73
Matthew 4: 18-25
Jo Cleary thinks about Nehemiah's response to God's call to take a census of the community arriving back in Jerusalem. What does this story tell us about our own responses to the call God has for us?
21st Sept 2025:
Restoration Nation -Responding to Trouble
Nehemiah 4: 7-23
Matthew 11: 25-30
Revd John looks at the discouragement that Nehemiah and his team faced as they built and their response to it. How are we facing discouragement in our own lives? What can we learn from Nehemiah?
14th Sept 2025:
Restoration Nation -Rebuilding the Walls
Nehemiah 2:11-3:5
Matthew 7: 24-29
Nehemiah's task became clear when he saw walls God had told him to rebuild. Revd Abby looks at what the next steps he took might say to us today, as we seek to respond to what God is saying to each of us about the rebuilding and rebirth that is needed in our lives.
7th Sept 2025:
Restoration Nation -Restoring the Vision
Nehemiah 1 and 2: 1-8
As we begin our series on the book of Nehemiah, Revd Mary looks at how his story started as a man who had never been to his family's land but whose heart broke at the stories of its ruin. What can we learn from how he cried out to God and sought to be part of the solution?
31st August 2025:
Silent Stories - Anna
Luke 2: 36-40
Anna's story can feel like a footnote at the end of Luke's account of Jesus's birth but her example shows us how to faithfully live as a disciple. Revd Abby asks how we can live faithfully, prayerfully and ready to tell the story of God's rescue plan in our lives and the world around us.
17th August 2025:
Silent Stories - The Paralysed Man
Luke 5: 17-26
When his friends destroyed a roof to lower the paralysed man down to Jesus, we hear how his heart-health was the priority over his physical health. Revd Mary explores how we can stay expectant for healing from Jesus with forgiveness of sins as well as physical symptoms.
10th August 2025:
Silent Stories - Priscilla and Aquila
Acts 18: 23-28
Even if we don't hear the voices of Prisca - or Priscilla - and Aquila in the New Testament, we know that they had a huge impact on the early church and how it made disciples and sent them out. Revd Abby asks what their story can tell us about our calling to mission where we are.
Archived sermon series
Catch up with whole sermon series at the following links, as this page changes each week....
Autumn 2023: The 5 Rs - key values for discipleship
Spring 2024: Journeys of Faith
June/July 2024: Faith Works - lessons from the letter of James
July/August 2024: Feast - what can we learn from stories of food in the bible
Autumn 2024: Rooted and established in love
Autumn 2024: O Come Let Us Adore Him
Early Spring 2025: The God Story
Early Summer 2025: Living Generously
