Sermons at St Peter’s
Our 10:30am services at St Peter’s are normally live-streamed on YouTube, but the weekly link is shared privately with members of the congregation rather than posted publicly on the website. If you are part of St Peter’s and would like access to the link, please contact the Church Office and we will be glad to help. Sermons at the 9:00am BCP service follow the lectionary and are not normally recorded.
Where the Vicar is preaching at the 10:30am service, a Sermon Summary is usually made available below. These summaries offer a way to engage with the Bible teaching at St Peter’s during the week, though they may not always be available for sermons preached by visiting speakers or other members of the Church Ministry Team.
The Bible Study Group Notes are also made available for anyone who would find them helpful.
Sunday 17th May 2026 | 1 Corinthians 10.1-22
Some choices do not just fill our time; they quietly form our desires. In 1 Corinthians 10, Paul asks a searching question for anyone wondering what it means to follow Christ in ordinary life: not simply “Can I get away with this?” but “What is this doing to my soul?”
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 10th May 2026 | 1 Corinthians 9
When life is not simply black and white, how do we decide what really matters? Paul’s answer in 1 Corinthians 9 is both challenging and liberating: true freedom is not found in always getting our own way, but in living for something greater than ourselves.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 3rd May 2026 | 1 Corinthians 8
Freedom is one of our culture’s favourite words — but what if real freedom is not just about personal choice? In 1 Corinthians 8, Paul shows how love changes the way we use our rights, our knowledge, and our influence on others.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 26th April 2026 | Acts 10.34-48
Peace is something many of us want but struggle to find — peace with ourselves, with others, and perhaps with God. Acts 10 announces that this peace is not earned by religious confidence or moral achievement, but received through Jesus Christ.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 19th April 2026 | Acts 10.1-33
Cornelius was sincere, prayerful, and spiritually interested — and yet Acts 10 says he still needed more. His story speaks powerfully to anyone who feels near to faith but not quite there, and shows how God draws outsiders towards Jesus.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 12th April 2026 | Acts 9.32-43
What if Easter is not just something Christians look back on, but something that changes how we face weakness, grief, and death today? Acts 9 points us to the risen Jesus, alive and still at work.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 15th March 2026 | James 5.13-20
What does mature Christian faith look like in the ordinary life of a church family? As James concludes his letter, he points us to a community shaped by prayer, honesty, mutual care, and the patient work of bringing wanderers home.
Sermon preached by Revd Neil McCathie | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 8th March 2026 | James 5.7-12
Faith can sound simple until life becomes painful. James 5 speaks to those living with unanswered questions, grief, illness, or disappointment, and points to the compassion and mercy of God when endurance feels costly.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 1st March 2026 | James 4.11-5.6
It is easy to speak, plan, and use what we have as though life belongs to us. James challenges that instinct sharply, calling us instead to live under God’s authority — with humbler speech, wiser plans, and greater responsibility towards others.
Sermon preached by Duncan Breckels | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 22nd February 2026 | James 4.1-10
Why do our conflicts so often reveal more than the issue we are arguing about? James 4 takes us beneath the surface of quarrels, restlessness, and divided loyalties, and shows that the way home is not self-improvement, but the surprising grace of God.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 15th February 2026 | James 3.1-18
Words can make a community feel safe, healing, and full of life — or they can leave people scorched. James 3 asks what our speech is doing to others, and points us to the wisdom from above that can turn a church from a furnace into a greenhouse.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 8th February 2026 | James 2.14-26
Can faith be real if it never moves? James 2 challenges the kind of belief that remains safely in words and ideas, and points us instead to a living faith that takes costly, courageous shape in ordinary life.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 1st February 2026 | James 2.1-13
Most of us do not think of ourselves as favouring the impressive and overlooking the awkward — but our instincts often tell a different story. James 2 shows how the mercy of Jesus overturns our hidden rankings and creates a community where people are honoured not for their usefulness, but because God has shown mercy to them.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 25th January 2026 | James 1.19-27
It is possible to hear a great deal about Christianity and yet remain largely unchanged. James 1 asks whether God’s Word is merely something we listen to, or whether it is beginning to reshape our speech, our mercy, our habits, and our lives.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 18th January 2026 | James 1.9-18
Life’s pressures often reveal where we look for security, worth, and blame. In James 1, we are invited to see status, wealth, trials, and temptation in the light of God’s unchanging goodness — and to trust the Father who gives every good gift.
Sermon preached by Revd Stuart Hull | Notes for Bible Study Groups
Sunday 11th January 2026 | James 1.1-8
A church can be warm, welcoming, and busy — and still be called by God into something deeper. As James opens his letter, he invites us beyond comfortable Christianity into a steadier, wiser, more wholehearted discipleship shaped by belonging to Jesus.
Sermon Summary | Notes for Bible Study Groups
2020
- Jun 211 Peter 4:12-19
A video sermon on 1 Peter 4:12-19, preached by Mark Wallace on 21st June 2020.
- Jun 141 Peter 4:1-11
A video sermon on 1 Peter 4:1-11, preached by Mark Wallace on 14th June 2020.
- Jun 071 Peter 3:8-22
A video sermon on 1 Peter 3:8-22, preached by Mark Wallace on 7th June 2020.
- May 311 Peter 2:13 - 3:7
A video sermon on 1 Peter 2:13 – 3:7, preached by Mark Wallace on 31st May 2020.
- May 241 Peter 2:11-12 (video)
A video sermon on 1 Peter 2:11-12, preached by Mark Wallace on 24th May 2020.
- May 171 Peter 2:4-10 (Video sermon)
A video sermon on 1 Peter 2:4-10, preached by Mark Wallace on 17th May 2020.
- May 031 Peter 1:22 - 2:3
A video sermon on 1 Peter 1:22-2:3, preached by Mark Wallace on 3rd May 2020.
- Apr 261 Peter 1:13-21 (video)
A video sermon on 1 Peter 1:13-21, preached by Mark Wallace on 26th April 2020.
- Apr 191 Peter 1:1-12 (video)
A video sermon on 1 Peter 1:1-12, preached by Mark Wallace on 19th April 2020.
- Mar 08John 18:28-40 What is Truth ?
A sermon on John 18:28-40, preached by Mark Wallace on 8th March 2020.
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