tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:25:00 +0000All SaintsAll SoulsAntarcticChangeHeaven and HellKennarday of the deadonline SermonOccasional sermons, thoughts or inspirations...whenever time permits!http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)Blogger366125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-3171087023096763586Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:47:00 +00002026-04-12T17:22:57.188+01:00St Faithful’s is a fictional parish, imagined by a real-life parish priest. It reflects familiar church cultures, observed with affection and humour, in the belief that theology still has something to say. We aim to be a place that is kind, humble, and laughs a lot.To find out how to buy books about St Faithful's, and my other books, please click here.Canon Tom KennarThe Parish Life - http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2026/03/books-and-publications-by-tom-kennar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-5546574433868072690Sat, 16 Sep 2023 14:24:00 +00002023-09-16T15:28:04.175+01:00 My talk to today's Havant Green Festival can be found on my sermons page: http://tomkennarsermons.blogspot.com/ Or click on the link on the right of this page called 'My Sermons'http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2023/09/havant-green-festival.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-8941416971827888242Tue, 16 Mar 2021 16:33:00 +00002021-03-16T16:33:12.694+00:00 The parish I serve has just published this book of 'Pandemic Ponderings', containing homilies, humour and history from the congregation and community around St Faith's.To obtain your own copy, please email me (tomkennar@gmail.com).  Price £9.99 (collected from the Rectory) or £12.50 (delivered).http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2021/03/parish-i-serve-has-just-published-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-5650780862170424846Sat, 04 Jul 2020 15:21:00 +00002020-07-04T16:23:11.561+01:00If you've come here, to this page, looking for a sermon, please go to the 'My Sermons' link (on the right hand side of the page) - or click here.  (I have found that much more traffic goes directly to my sermons page than to this listing of sermon titles...so I'm largely discontinuing putting titles and links up here.)You will be able to search for Sermons directly on the other page...as http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2020/07/how-to-use-this-blog.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-3977210679952418579Sun, 08 Mar 2020 10:59:00 +00002020-03-08T10:59:48.521+00:00Here's a link to last Thursday's short sermon, on the question: Ask and you shall receive?  Please click here to read it.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2020/03/ask-and-you-shall-receive-really.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-876390651762924662Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:00:00 +00002020-03-01T10:00:07.604+00:00Here's a link to today's sermon, about Jesus' temptation in the desert:  please click here.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2020/03/bread-and-circuses-jesus-temptation-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-688655518718685755Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +00002020-02-23T10:00:07.029+00:00I preached two sermons today on the theme of the Transfiguration.  For the first sermon, for our morning service, please click here.  For the evening sermon (which has rather more theology in it!), please click here.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2020/02/transfiguration-and-quinquegesima.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-4530273683744343784Sun, 26 Jan 2020 19:00:00 +00002020-01-26T19:00:05.307+00:00This evening, at the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, I preached on the text of a famous Choral Evensong anthem, by S.S.Wesley - 'Blessed be the God and Father...".  I also made reference in the final paragraphs to the forthcoming exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union, and the rancour it has caused. To read the sermon, please click here. To hear a http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2020/01/on-eve-of-brexit-blessed-be-god-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-6274413980334864840Sun, 26 Jan 2020 10:00:00 +00002020-01-26T10:00:08.182+00:00Here's my sermon for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, preached at this morning's Parish Communion.  Please click here to read it.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2020/01/arguments-factions-and-fighting-sermon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-7228877796975421233Sun, 12 Jan 2020 19:00:00 +00002020-01-12T19:00:07.962+00:00This evening I preached at Portsmouth Cathedral, at the launch of 'Becket 2020' - a sermon series by Honorary Canons of the Cathedral to mark the 850th anniversary of the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket (d.1170).  To read the sermon, please click here.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2020/01/pilgrimages-baptisms-and-becket.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-2755010282562275099Sun, 12 Jan 2020 10:00:00 +00002020-01-12T10:00:07.457+00:00Here's a link to this morning's sermon on the baptism of Christ:  please click here.  What does Jesus' own baptism have to teach us about our baptism?http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-baptism-of-christ-12-january-2020.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-322105581571923599Sun, 29 Dec 2019 10:00:00 +00002019-12-29T10:00:17.723+00:00Here's the text of today's sermon about Joseph - the step-Father of Jesus, who so often gets left out of the story... A sermon for St Joseph.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/12/joseph-forgotten-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-2943235003854900960Fri, 27 Dec 2019 17:10:00 +00002019-12-27T17:11:55.576+00:00Somewhat belatedly (well, it has been a BIT busy) here is a list of sermons and stories I've told and preached over Christmas 2019: Advent 4:  Mary meets an Angel (an imaginative re-telling) A Sermon for Carol Services A short Sermon for Midnight Mass and Christmas Morning A Sermon for St Nicholas Family Carol Service:  The Innkeeper's Tale (an imaginative re-telling of the http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/12/christmas-sermons-and-talks-2019.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-2879945001148088553Sun, 08 Dec 2019 10:00:00 +00002019-12-27T16:41:31.551+00:00Here's a link to today's sermon about John the Baptist - a very different fellow from Jesus: please click here to read it.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/12/heres-link-to-todays-sermon-about-john.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-1669423773726498410Sun, 10 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +00002019-11-10T12:00:14.119+00:00Here's the homily I gave at today's Remembrance Sunday Civic Service.  I hope it inspired someone!  To read the homily, please click here.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/11/remembrance-sunday-2019.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-7961151512962555285Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:34:00 +00002019-11-02T15:34:00.939+00:00Who is a Saint?  What does it mean to BE a saint?  To read tomorrow's sermon on the topic, please click herehttp://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/11/all-saints-2019.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-2704019039147228219Sat, 21 Sep 2019 08:40:00 +00002019-09-21T09:40:47.797+01:00A lot has changed since the 1970s, when Harvest Festivals in rural Devon were normal for me.  Here's my reflections on those changes, and on how our view of God's relationship to the harvest has changed along with them.  Please click here to read the sermon.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/09/a-sermon-for-harvest.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-6769849129394250908Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +00002019-07-28T10:00:09.449+01:00Here is today's sermon on The Lord's Prayer...what I hope will be a thought-provoking excursion of thought, that will help us see new layers of richness in the text.  Please click here to read it.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-lords-prayer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-9113135458748170544Sun, 30 Jun 2019 09:00:00 +00002019-06-30T10:00:06.931+01:00Here are my reflections, 3 years on from the Brexit vote.  Please click here to read them.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/06/brexit-3-years-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-5394684067246177339Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:05:00 +00002019-06-23T18:05:03.696+01:00Here's a link to tonight's sermon about Jairus' daughter and the haemorrhagic woman:  please click here to read it. http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/06/jairus-daughter-and-haemorrhagic-woman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-2273626539083069387Thu, 06 Jun 2019 08:15:00 +00002019-06-06T09:15:50.168+01:00Today is the 75th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, or 'Operation Overlord'.  By co-incidence it is also the 175th Anniversary of the founding of the YMCA, which I served in the 1980s and 1990s.  Here's my (short!) sermon on both those anniversaries.  Please click here to read it.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/06/sermon-for-d-day-and-ymca.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-7089177884549171455Sun, 19 May 2019 20:47:00 +00002019-05-19T21:54:48.665+01:00Today, I had the distinct pleasure of addressing some of our Havant community's leaders, at the Annual Civic Service (essentially to pray for the new Mayor, Diana Patrick).  I decided (perhaps foolishly) to address one of the most contentious topics - religion and politics.  If you'd like to read what I said, please click here: https://tomkennarsermons.blogspot.com/2019/05/http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/05/religion-and-politics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-8786058957498239492Sun, 19 May 2019 09:00:00 +00002019-05-19T21:47:56.932+01:00Today's sermon asks the question 'what does Radical Love' look like...and encourages us to live as Easter people, for whom love is our watchword.  To read it, please click here.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/05/todays-sermon-asks-question-what-does.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-141776781411860610Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:00:00 +00002019-04-28T10:00:16.977+01:00Today, we thought about the dilemma of my name-sake, Doubting Thomas - and a reference to James Bond thrown in for good luck.  To read today's sermon, please click here.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/04/doubting-thomas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18502116.post-5736389758109643310Sun, 14 Apr 2019 09:00:00 +00002019-04-14T10:00:07.311+01:00Here's a link to my Palm Sunday sermon for this year:  please click here.http://tomkennar.blogspot.com/2019/04/palm-sunday-to-easter-bouncing-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Tom Kennar)0