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.

16th March 2025: The God Story -
The Passion

Colossians 1: 15-20
Luke 22: 14-30

Why does Jesus coming to earth to die for us and to take the punishment for our sins on himself matter so much? And why did he need to rise again? As we approach Holy Week, Revd Stacy invites us to ask these big questions.

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23rd March 2025: The God Story -
The Church

Ephesians 3: 1-12

Acts 2: 42-47

When the Holy Spirit came down at Pentecost, he ignited a movement that has gone across the world and lasted 2000 years so far - God's church in the world. Revd Abby asks what that means for us and how we can be church for those around us.

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9th March 2025:
The God Story -
The King

Isaiah 61: 1-4

Luke 4: 1-21

Jesus was an unlikely King, fulfilling scriptures in unlikely ways. Revd Abby asks what we can learn from how he resisted temptation in ways that God's people had not, and how he might be inviting us to join him in growing his Kingdom on earth.

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5th March 2025:
Ash Wednesday

Isaiah 58: 1-12

John 8: 1-11

Revd Abby asks us to consider what the good news might be about Ash Wednesday. As we begin Lent - a season of penitence - what good news might God be asking us to look for among the ashes?

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2nd March 2025: The God Story -
The Son

John 1: 9-14, 29-34

As we head into the New Testament part of the God Story, Rosie Lee walks us through what John's gospel tells us about who the Son is - the Word made flesh, who came to dwell in amongst the mess of the world. How are we called to respond?

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23rd February 2025: The God Story - Prophets and Exile

2 Samuel 7: 8, 12-17

2 Chronicles 36: 15-23
Luke 10: 21-24

Revd Abby runs through over 1000 years of Old Testament history and asks what the experiences of the Kings of Israel and the Prophets who spoke truth to power have to say to us today.

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16th February 2025: The God Story - Rise and Fall of a Nation

Joshua 24: 1-28
Acts 7: 37-51

As God's people claimed the land He promised to Abraham's descendants, they recall their roots, their place in God's story, and their victories and Joshua encourages their response. Lou Peet thinks about what this looks like for us now.

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9th February 2025: The God Story - The Birth of a Nation

Exodus 33:12 - 34:10
Acts 7: 17-38

On Racial Justice Sunday, Revd Stacy looks at the story of the Exodus and God's freeing of the children of Abraham and "many other people" and how God's mercy and compassion is wider than the limits Moses wants to impose.

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2nd February 2025: The God Story - The Seed of Promise

Genesis 12 and 15

Once Adam and Eve chose to disobey God, the story of the bible becomes one of God showing that he keeps his promises, even when we don't. Revd Abby looks at how impossible his promises to Abraham looked but how he kept them!

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26th January 2025: The God Story - 70 years of our story

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
Luke 4: 14-21

As we celebrate 70 years since the consecration of St Paul's new building after the previous one was destroyed in 1940, The Very Revd John Witcombe, Dean of Coventry Cathedral, preaches on being who God has called us to be.

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19th January 2025: The God Story -
The Fall

Genesis 3: 1-23

Mark 8: 34-38

It only took a short while before humanity was persuaded by the enemy to push God away. Revd Abby looks at the account of how Adam and Eve sinned and the tragic consequences of that sin. How can we relate to this in our lives?

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12th January 2025: The God Story -
The Beginning

Genesis 1 - 2:3

John 1: 1-5, 9-13

Revd Abby began our journey through the bible with a look at what happened in the beginning. We can get hung up on the "what" and the "how" but have we spent time thinking about why God wanted to create such a beautiful world?

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