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This is another version of my podcast for this week, the Third Sunday of Epiphany.

It is again based on the Gospel reading for the day in chapter 2 of St John's Gospel.

Preacher: The Reverend Ross Royden

St John writes that the Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory (John 1:14). But who would have expected Jesus to reveal his glory to us at a wedding (John 2:11)? And how does giving more wine to people who have already had a lot to drink reveal his glory?

This is a podcast for the Third Sunday of Epiphany. It is based on John 2:1-11, which is the Gospel reading in the lectionary for the day.

Preacher: The Reverend Ross RoydenJesus invites us to come and see what he has to offer us. In coming to him, we see heaven opened and discover him to be the centre of all things in heaven and on earth.

This is a podcast for the Second Sunday of Epiphany. It is based on John 1:43-51, which is the Gospel reading in the lectionary for the day.

Preacher: The Reverend Ross RoydenAs we begin the new year celebrating the Feast of the Epiphany, we each need our own epiphany.

This is a podcast for Epiphany. It is based on Ephesians 3:1-12, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

This is a talk I gave for the Christmas season based on Matthew 2:13-18.

Preacher: The Reverend Ross RoydenKnowing that Jesus is our future affects how we live and understand the purpose of our life in the present.

This is a podcast for the Second Sunday of Advent. It is based on 2 Peter 3:8-15, which is the second reading in the lectionary for the day.

Preacher: The Reverend Ross RoydenHow 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 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.

Transcendence. Transfiguration. Transformation.

Faith in Christ doesn't always calm the storm, but it should calm us.

Jesus' followers need to see things differently.

Jesus' calling of the first disciples challenges us to re-evaluate our calling as a Church and as individual believers.

Have we seen God's salvation? Are we ready to die in peace?

Jesus preaches a message of forgiveness, but we need to want to be forgiven.

We each need personally to decide for Christ and to receive the Holy Spirit.

The baptism of Christ leads us to ask questions about baptism today.

For many, when it comes to having a relationship with God, 'It's complicated.' It doesn't have to be. But it does mean commitment.

The Christmas Story, which we are about to celebrate, is an account of something that really happened and which matters for us today.

The saints are God's gift for us to imitate, to inspire us, and to intercede for us.

Jesus asks, 'What do you want me to do for you?'

Jesus warns us that is hard to enter the Kingdom of God and find eternal life.

Jesus explains what it means to be his follower.

Jesus tells those who want to be his followers that they must die to themselves.

Out of a desire to be welcoming, the Church's message has become too 'inclusive'.

If we don't teach our children to follow Christ, the world will teach them not to.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is both the 'mother of God' and our mother too.

Jesus put the Eucharist at the centre of the life of the Church. Does chapter 6 of St John's Gospel help us to understand its meaning?

Jesus put the Eucharist at the centre of the life of the Church. Does chapter 6 of St John's Gospel help us to understand its meaning?

Jesus prioritized teaching the Word of God. So should we.

The most important question we need to answer is, 'Who is Jesus?'

We have changed our message to be relevant and have become irrelevant as a result.

Like the possessed man, we too need delivering from the power of evil.

We need to experience the fear of God if we are to know ourselves.

In a surprise turn in chapter 4 of St Mark's Gospel, we discover that Jesus' teaching is not for everyone. So who is it for?

The demons recognize who Jesus is, but the religious leaders and his family do not. Do we?

The doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity describes who God is and what should be our experience of him.

As we celebrate Pentecost and the gift of the Spirit, St John offers a different view of what it means to be a follower of Christ to that prevalent in many of our churches today.

As Jesus' disciples, we do not belong to this world. Jesus prays that the Father will protect us as he sends us into the world.

This week, we think how we should love those whose lives are a mess.

In his last words to his disciples before his death, Jesus tells them they must abide in him.

Jesus is the Good Shepherd who knows his sheep.

Jesus died for our sins and now he want us to stop sinning.

In this podcast, we look at how St John tells us that honesty about our sin is the only way to find forgiveness.

In the first part of my two-part talk for Easter, I tried to explain what has become the popular understanding of the Death of Jesus. In this the second part, I hope to show why it is inadequate, misleading, and wrong.

In this, the first part of a two-part talk for Easter, I try to explain what has become the popular understanding of the Death of Jesus. In the next part, I hope to show why it is inadequate, misleading, and wrong.

In our podcast this week, we look at a couple of puzzles in St John's account of the end of Jesus' public ministry.

Should we honour the Blessed Virgin Mary for her obedience to God?

Jesus makes his final appeal to people to believe in him. Now is the time to commit.

In this week's podcast, we think about what St John says about God's love for us.

This week we think about Jesus' cleansing of the Temple and how this challenges us to cleanse our churches.

Jesus takes his disciples to a pagan city and shocks them by telling them he is going to suffer and die and that he expects them to as well.

St Peter in his first letter describes those he is writing to as exiles and aliens in this world. In this week's podcast, we ask what this means for us today.

The present time brings out the best and worst in us. Jesus challenges us about what our priorities are.

In this week's podcast, we examine why it is people do not see Jesus' glory and respond to the Gospel.

St John tells his readers that he and those with him have seen Jesus' glory and invites us to see it too.

In this week's podcast, we see the Lord coming to his Temple and meeting two people who have been waiting for him.

This week's podcast looks at St John's account of the Wedding in Cana of Galilee and Jesus first 'sign'.

In our podcast this week, we look at St John's account of the calling of the first disciples and learn how we too can become his followers.

In this week's podcast, we think about the significance of the announcement by the Voice from heaven at Jesus' baptism that Jesus is God's Son.

This is the podcast for Epiphany. We look at the visit of the Wise Men and ask what message it has for us today.

The podcast for the First Sunday of Christmas invites us to ask the 'holy child of Bethlehem to be born in us today'.

This is my podcast for the Nativity of Our Lord. It is based on John 1:1-18.

As we prepare for the coming of our Lord, we think on this the Fourth Sunday of Advent of the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This week's podcast looks at the role of John the Baptist in preparing the way for the coming of our Lord. We ask what John meant when he said that the One to come would baptize us in the Holy Spirit.

This is a special podcast for today, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

For this week's podcast, we go to the beginning of St Mark's Gospel.

This week's podcast is based on the Gospel reading for this week. It is from St Mark's Gospel chapter 13, verses 24 -37.

This is the podcast version of the sermon I preached at Christ Church for the Feast of Christ the King.

This is a longer version of the sermon for this week. It is based on St Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians chapter 5 verses 1-11.

This week's podcast returns to St Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians. Thank you to all who are listening each week. I am working on my spoken delivery in these podcasts and, hopefully, it will get better with practice!

The transcript of the podcasts can be found on my website: www.rossroyden.com

This week's podcast is the sermon I preached today at Christ Church. It was recorded live, which explains why there is a bit of an echo!

This week's podcast is based on St Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians.

This week's episode reflects on Jesus' famous saying:

'Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor's, and to God the things that are God's.' (Matthew 22:21)

This week's talk is about the wedding banquet and the strange case of the badly dressed man.

This is the sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity preached by me at Christ Church Kowloon Tong.