Ross Royden

Preacher: The Reverend Ross Royden How are we as believers to think of death and how should it affect how we live?

This is a podcast for the Third Sunday before Advent. It is based on 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is a podcast for All Saints' Sunday. It is based on Revelation 7:9-17, which is the first reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is a podcast for the Last Sunday after Trinity. It is based on 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is a podcast for the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is a sermon for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Philippians 4:1-9, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is my sermon for the Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Philippians 3:4-14, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is my sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Philippians 2:1-13, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is my sermon for the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Romans 15:1-13, which I chose as the second reading for today to finish a short series on Romans.

This is my sermon for the Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Romans 14:1-12, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is my sermon for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Romans 13:8-14 which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is my sermon for the Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Romans 12:9-21, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is my sermon for the Twelfth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Romans 12:1-8, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is my sermon for the Eleventh Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Romans 11:1-2, 29-32, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day. I also make reference to the Gospel reading, which is Matthew 15:10-28.

This is my sermon for the Fifth Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Romans 7:13-25, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is my sermon on Romans 6 for the Third Sunday after Trinity in my series on Romans. St Paul tells us we are freed from Sin but enslaved to God.

This is my sermon for the Second Sunday after Trinity. It is based on Romans 5:1-11.

My sermon for the First Sunday after Trinity introducing my series on Romans.

This is a talk I recorded recently about the way people are using parts of the New Testament to create a different Gospel to one proclaimed there.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is not only our mother, she is a strong woman of faith and a role model for all who seek to follow her Son.

Knowing the seriousness of sin, we are to seek forgiveness.  Knowing how little faith we have, we are to be faithful.  And knowing how much God has done for us in Jesus, we are to be thankful.

Money is not neutral.  Serving it brings death.  Choose life.

We can serve God, or we can serve money, but we can't serve God and money.  Jesus uses the example of someone who served money to show us how we should serve God.

The challenges we are facing and the changes we are living through demand that we have a robust faith.  Jesus tells us what that looks like.

If we humble ourselves God will exalt us.  The reverse is also true.

Jesus frees people from the power of Satan and from all those things Satan uses to hold people captive.

Jesus' words are a challenge to the present economic and educational system; people's values and attitudes; and the Church's mission priorities.

Our images of Mary are all wrong.  We need to bring her into focus and see her as she is.

Jesus challenges us to get our priorities sorted out.

Jesus gives the disciples a prayer to pray and offers them a gift from the Father to help them.  The same gift is available to us.

Listening to Jesus' teaching is the most important thing we can do.

Does Jesus' teaching about love mean we are free to decide what we should and should not do?

Christ sets us free from those things that oppress us and threaten to destroy us.

We worship one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

The promise of the Holy Spirit is for you.

Do you want to be made well?

Faith, life, and love in a world of rejection and hate.

We need to hear Jesus' voice.

Jesus offers hope to all who have fallen.

Jesus tells us, 'Do not doubt but believe.'  But how are we to believe?

Casting out the demons of distortion to hear Mary Magdalene announce the resurrection.

The Blessed Virgin Mary and the Beloved Disciple invite us to join the family of the Lord, who hear the Word of God and keep it.

Jesus fails Peter.  Peter denies Jesus.

Judas, the Devil, and Us

St Mary of Bethany demonstrates the extravagant love and devotion to Jesus that all his followers should show.

Should we really welcome everyone to join the Church?

The Blessed Virgin Mary offers a different approach to issues of gender and to how women and men relate to each other.

The judgement of God was a central theme of Jesus' teaching. It's about time we took it seriously.

One day Jerusalem will welcome Jesus into the city.  In the meantime, we need to welcome him into our lives.

The Devil failed when he tested Jesus.  Will he succeed with us?

A priest accused over sausage eating in Lent and a woman accused of adultery.