Diocese of Oxford

Sermons on Matthew

Let His light shine through us

Gospel Reading        Matthew 22.15–22 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew  All    Glory to you, O Lord.     Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap Jesus in what he said. So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, ‘Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach…

We cannot simply talk the talk

Gospel               Matthew 21.23–32 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew  All    Glory to you, O Lord.       When he entered the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, ‘By what authority are you doing these things, and who gave…

Trying to make sense of a different world and kingdom

Gospel               Matthew 20.1-16 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew  All    Glory to you, O Lord.       Jesus said to his disciples, ‘For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire labourers for his vineyard. After agreeing with the labourers for the usual…

Turning and tuning back in

Gospel Matthew 16.21–end Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew All Glory to you, O Lord. From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and…

A God of surprises

Gospel Matthew 14.13–21 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew All Glory to you, O Lord. Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went…

God knows the whole story

Gospel                    Matthew 13.24–30, 36–43 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew    All    Glory to you, O Lord.   Jesus put before his disciples another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to someone who sowed good seed in his field; but while…

The real purpose of the seed planted within us

Gospel                           Matthew 13.1–9, 18–23 Hear the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ according to Matthew    All    Glory to you, O Lord.   That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the lake. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood…