Sermon preached by the Robert Twycross for Passion Sunday:

Following Jesus

No prizes for knowing that today is the 200^th anniversary of the Abolition of the Transatlantlic Slave Trade. It?s an occasion for us to look back ? to remember ? and to reflect and to respond.
Remember: we are talking about the British Slave Trade. And any of us whose family was here in Britain in the 17^th, 18^th and/or 19^th Centuries will have benefited in some way from the slave trade, and thus from slavery itself. That includes my family ? and maybe yours as well.
Imagine: how you?d feel if you were kidnapped from your neighbourhood in West Africa, yoked and shackled to a line of other captives, marched maybe hundreds of miles from the interior to the coast, possibly beaten or raped, bought by traders, and shipped like cattle to the Americas, sold again, and forced to work from dawn till dusk on a sugar, cotton or coffee plantation.

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Sermon preached by the Rev Dr Hugh Houghton on Sunday 22nd April:

Acts 9:1-6 [7-20], John 21:1-19

May I speak in the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen.

Why did the disciples go back to fishing in the Sea of Galilee, after they had seen Jesus in the Upper Room, and Thomas had acclaimed him as ?My Lord and my God? as we heard last week? Several answers come to mind: perhaps they didn?t feel ready to embark on a great career of preaching; perhaps they needed to build up resources before setting out; perhaps they felt that fishing was what they did best; or perhaps they needed another prod from Jesus before they realised what it was he was calling them to do. Of course, this is speculation ……………

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