Sermons
We are uploading sermons as preached live on Sunday mornings.
Sermons before Advent 2023 may be viewed on our YouTube channel.
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Easter to Pentecost
For the Sixth Sunday of Easter (5 May 2024), in place of the sermon, we enjoyed another in our series of ‘Sharing Stories’ interviews, with Sarah Lavery interviewing Malcolm Donaldson, a member of our Music Group. Click below to hear the audio recording (13 minutes). The interview begins after 40 seconds of introductions to other members of Malcolm’s and Julia’s family.
Candlemas to Easter
Holy Week Meditations
Monday 25 March – Fr Mark
Tuesday 26 March – Canon Nigel
Wednesday 27 March – Fr Peter
For the Third Sunday of Lent (3 March 2024), in place of the sermon, we enjoyed another in our series of ‘Sharing Stories’ interviews, with Christine Aubrey interviewing John Edwards from our choir.
Christmas to Candlemas
Advent to Christmas
For the Second Sunday of Advent (10 December 2023), in place of the sermon, we enjoyed another in our series of ‘Sharing Stories’ interviews: ‘The Two Nigels’ (9 minutes) – Canon Nigel Hartley interviewing Nigel Willis from our choir.
Audio recordings
For All Saints Sunday (5 November 2023), in place of the sermon, we enjoyed another in our series of ‘Sharing Stories’ interviews. This time it is the turn of Jackie Flowers-Leek, who answers questions from Sarah Lavery.
Second Sunday of Easter, 16 April 2023
There was no sermon today because the Annual Parish Church Meeting took place immediately following the 9.30 Music Group Eucharist. Instead, we have a recording of the dramatised Gospel for today (4 minutes long), words by Sarah Lavery (from St John), narrated by Wendy Francis with the children as disciples, Fiona as Jesus and Simon as Thomas.
Third Sunday of Easter, 23 April 2023
This was the first of ‘Sharing Stories’ our congregational discussions which are planned to take place on the first Sunday of the month (except for 7 May, which is the Coronation Service). These will not be videoed, but transcripts will be published. An audio file (11 minutes long) is available below.
Fifth Sunday of Easter, 7 May 2023
On this Sunday, we celebrated the coronation of King Charles III with a special service. Fr Mark’s video sermon is available on the YouTube channel, or you can hear an audio recording of the service (65 minutes, including the organ voluntary at the end) below.
Our recording starts with the Call to Worship, which was preceded by the hymn ‘Praise my soul, the King of Heaven’. We did not record our choir and congregation singing this hymn, but below is an audio recording of the hymn from the Church of England’s ‘A Church Near You’ resource hub.
Christmas Sermons at Steyning
Canon Paul Rampton’s sermon on Christmas morning and Bishop Martin’s Christmas message can be viewed below. Bishop Martin’s Message (3 minutes) focuses on how the star over the stable reminds us of our place in the universe. We suggest you skip the advertisement at the beginning.
An audio recording of Fr Mark’s sermon at Midnight Mass (seven minutes) is available here.
My Lighthouse
We are pleased to be able to bring you an audio recording of our music group with the children from the congregation singing (and signing) a song from the 16 October Music Group Eucharist – My Lighthouse (three minutes long; please reload the page if the audio link is not visible below):
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