Sermons – Audio
Sermons by Tony and Patricia Higton. Tony and Patricia met at theological college and have spoken in many places around the world for many years
- 11/10/15 The vital importance of prayer 1 Thess 5:17 (Tony 16 mins) A church must pray together other than in services.
- 18/10/15 God’s plan for the universal church (Tony 19 mins) God wants a united church not a conglomeration of individuals.
- 01/11/15 God’s plan for the local church Acts 2:42-47 (Tony 13 mins) God wants the local church to be a deeply committed fellowship
- 15/11/15 The church is the Body of Christ John 17:11-23 etc (Tony 17 mins) Jesus prayed each church would experience deep unity in diversity.
- 06/12/15 Baptism is not enough 1 John 5:9-15 (Tony 11 mins) We must also invite Jesus into our lives.
- 13/12/15 The church is the Bride of Christ Rev 21:1-14 (Tony 17 mins) The church must constantly prepare for the ‘marriage supper of the Lamb
- 03/01/16 Gentiles are heirs together with Jews in Christ Eph 3:1-12 (Tony 17 mins)
- 17/01/16 The gifts of the Spirit are important for the church 1 Cor 12:1-11 (Tony 19 mins) The gifts of the Spirit are avalable today.
- 07/02/16 We have a glorious Lord Luke 9:28-36 (Tony 15 mins) The Transfiguration shows how awesome Jesus is.
- 14/02/16 The many ways Satan can tempt us Luke 4:1-13 (Tony 22 mins)
- 06/03/16 As God’s chosen people put on love Col 3:12-17 (Tony 19 mins)
- 13/03/16 Knowing Christ Php 3:4b-14 (Tony 18 mins)
- 27/03/16 Taking sin, the Cross and Resurrection seriously Acts 10:34-43 (Tony 20 mins)
- 03/04/16 Overcoming fear John 20:19-31 (Tony 19 mins)
- 10/04/16 St John’s understanding of Jesus as God John 21:1-4; Rev 5 (Patricia 15 mins)
- 24/04/16 The new heaven and the new earth Rev 21:1-6 (Tony 18 mins)
- 01/05/16 Longing for more of God Psa 63 (Tony 13 mins)
- 29/05/16 Living by faith Luke 7:1-10 (Patricia 18 mins)
- 19/06/16 The priority of loving God Gal 2:15-21 (Tony 16 mins)
- 26/06/16 We must crucify our old nature Gal 5:1, 16-25 (Tony 18 mins)
- 03/07/16 New birth, living hope, eternal inheritance 1 Peter 1:3-9 (Tony 18 mins)
- 17/07/16 Getting to know God better Col 1:15-20 (Patricia 15 mins)
- 24/07/16 God is in Christ, Christ is in us Col 2:6-15 (Tony 22 mins)
- 28/08/16 Listen to God, Submit to God then God will provide Psalm 81:1, 15-16 (Tony 20 mins)
- 04/09/16 How to be a true disciple Luke 14:25-35 (Tony 18 mins)
- 25/09/16 The Bible 01 – Inspiration 2 Tim 3:16-17 (Tony 14 mins)
- 02/10/16 The Spirit of power, love and self-discipline 2 Tim 1:1-14 (Tony 17 mins)
- 09/10/16 The Bible 02 – How to interpret Scripture – Different types of literature (Tony 19 mins)
- 23/10/16 The Bible 03 – A glimpse at the first five books of the Bible (Tony 21 mins)
- 12/11/16 The Bible 04 – A brief look at the historical books in the OT (Tony 25 mins)
- 27/11/16 The Bible 05 – A glimpse of the prophetic books in the OT (Tony 24 mins)
- 11/12/16 The Bible 06 – An overview of the Gospels and Acts (Tony 19 mins)
- 08/01/17 The Bible 07 – An overview of Paul’s epistles (Tony 25 mins)
- 22/01/17 The Bible 08 – An overview of the epistles not written by Paul (Tony 18 mins)
- 12/02/17 The Bible 09 – An overview of the Book of Revelation (Tony 22 mins)
- 29/01/17 The spirituality of Simeon and Anna (Tony 18 mins)
- 19/02/17 God cares for creation and our welfare (Tony 19 mins)
- 26/02/17 The awesome glory of God (Tony 15 mins)
- 12/03/17 God calls us to leave the security we’re used to and to serve him (Tony 20 mins)
- 26/03/17 The power of the Resurrection (Patricia 17 mins)
- 09/04/17 A royal, messianic, humble, misunderstood entry into Jerusalem Matt 21:1-11 (Tony 17 mins)
- 16/04/17 The reality of heaven, transition to heaven, preparation for heaven 1 Cor 15:56-58 (Tony 20 mins)
- 23/04/17 Resurrection: God’s amen to the Cross, Guarantee of heaven (Patricia 17 mins)
- 07/05/17 Suffering builds up character and faith. Jesus suffered unjustly 1 Pet 2:19-25 (Tony 20 mins)
- 18/06/17 Justification by faith Rom 5:1-11 (Tony 20 mins)
- 16/07/17 No condemnation for those in Christ, controlled by the Spirit Rom 8:1-11 (Tony 14 mins)
- 06/08/17 Jesus persistent Intercessor, glorious One, ultimate Fulfiller, eternal Son Luke 9:28-36 (Tony 19 mins)
- 13/08/17 Keep your eyes on the Lord, Pray regularly Matt 14:22-23 (Tony 17 mins)
- 20/08/17 The Sower: hard people, shallow people, pre-occupied people, deep people Matt 13:1-9, 18-23 (Tony)
- 08/09/17 Excuses of inadequacy to obey God’s call and God’s answers Ex 3:1-4:17 (Patricia 24 mins)
- 17/09/17 When, whom and why should we forgive? Matt 18:21-35 (Tony 16 mins)
- 24/09/17 Don’t be afraid, Don’t miss out, God is doing a new thing Isa 43:1-5, 18-19 (Tony 27 mins)
- 01/10/17 What we have from the Lord, What we owe to the Lord Php 2:1-11 (Tony mins)
- 07/08/18 The Spirit of the Lord makes all the difference Luke 4:14-21 (Tony 14 mins)
- 04/02/18 Jesus – Crown of revelation, Lord of creation, Source of salvation Col 1:15-29 (Tony 17 mins)
- 01/04/18 Easter – A great promise, great partnership, great presentation 1 Cor 15:9-17 (Tony 14 mins)
- 06/05/18 Love is sacrificial John 15:9-17 (Tony 15 mins)
- 20/05/18 Revival in the Last Days – a basic introduction to Revival John 15:26-16:15 (Tony 19 mins)
Sermons – Written
01.03.09 | All Saints Church | Temptation to Doubt: You may have heard many a sermon preached in Lent about the importance of overcoming temptation. Various temptations will have been mentioned – lust, greed, anger, hatred, envy, pride, etc. But in the reading from Genesis we heard of the very first temptation ever to the first human beings: the temptation to doubt God. That temptation, which can be mild or agonising and takes many different forms, has afflicted humanity ever since. Temptation is not sin – only if we give in to it. But we can take comfort from the fact that this particular temptation comes to most people at one time or another and even afflicted Jesus. | Patricia Higton | Luke 4:1-13 |
12.12.08 | All Saints Church | Jesus the Only Way: I never cease to marvel at how favoured Mary was. She was a young, unknown peasant girl living in a small village in remote corner of the Roman Empire. Yet, to use a Greek theological term, she was theotokos – the God bearer. I wonder how much she took in of what the angel said to her. The angel referred to: | Tony Higton | Luke 1:26-38 |
09.11.08 | All Saints Church | Facing Death: “We grieve; for Christians death is sleep. For Christians grief is not hopeless, for Christians hope is certain. | Tony Higton | 1 Thess. 4:13-18 |
17.08.08 | All Saints Church | What is the Purpose of the Law?: When we lived in Jerusalem it was clear that Jewish people thought that we Christians didn’t think the Torah (the Law) was important. They thought we simply thought it was important to believe, but keeping the Law of the Hebrew Scriptures was unimportant. | Tony Higton | Luke 10:23-41; Galatians 3:16-29 |
10.08.08 | All Saints Church | Walking on Water: There are some Christians who seem to think Christianity is meant to be an insurance policy against all difficulty and suffering. They dogmatically believe every sick person should be healed and that God wants Christians to be affluent. They think that life should be one uninterrupted string of miracles. | Tony Higton | Matt. 14:22-33 |
03.08.08 | All Saints Church | The Feeding of the 10,000: Yes it probably was about 10,000! The 5000 didn’t include women and children.I worked out that dividing loaves between all that crowd would have provided each person with the equivalent of about one hundredth of a modern slice of bread. Yet they were all satisfied and 12 baskets full of scraps were gathered up. To me this brings home the amazing nature of this miracle. | Tony Higton | Matt.14:13-21 |
13.07.08 | All Saints’ Church | Responding to God’s Word: Jesus speaks about this in his Parable of the Sower. The “seed” is the “message about the kingdom [of God]” (verse 19), i.e. the message about the rule of God in our lives. The “soil” is our heart attitude towards that message. | Rev. Tony Higton | Matt.13:1-9, 18-23 |
01.06.08 | All Saints’ Church | If We Love God We Will Obey Him: I always remember an experience I had as a boy on holiday in Mablethorpe on the Lincolnshire coast in the 1950s. At the far North end of the beach there was an RAF bombing range, littered with debris from shells and bombs. | Rev. Tony Higton | Matt. 7:21-29 |
11.05.08 | All Saints Church | Pentecost: If Ever We Need the Power of the Holy Spirit, It’s Now!: We live in a very needy nation. There is widespread breakdown of the family with all the trauma and social problems that produces. There is a very high abortion rate. There is a growing problem of violent crime, particularly amongst young people. | Tony Higton | 1 Cor. 3. 3-13 |
13.04.08 | All Saints’ Church | What is Church For? What’s the purpose of the church? What’s it all about? Is it just for people who have nothing better to do on a Sunday morning? Is it just a cosy religious club? Is it a gathering of those who like singing hymns? | Rev. Tony Higton | Acts 2: 42-47 |
12.03.08 | All Saints’ Church | Palm Sunday: The full significance of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey may be lost on us if we do not know the background to his action. It was, in fact, a public claim to being the long-awaited Messiah. | Rev. Tony Higton | Matt 21:1-11 |
17.02.08 | All Saints’ Church | How to be a Part of God’s Chosen People: Abraham lived many centuries before Jesus. He didn’t have the Bible (it wasn’t written then). He didn’t have the church (it hadn’t started). He didn’t know about Jesus. But he had faith and… | Rev. Tony Higton | Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 |
09.02.08 | All Saints’ Church | What’s Wrong with Human Beings?: Did Jesus really have an encounter in the wilderness with a personal Devil? That is how the story of Lent – Jesus’ 40 days and 40 nights in the desert – puts it. I can’t go into that in great depth here. But, like the Church of England, I do believe in a personal Devil. | Rev. Tony Higton | Gen 2:15-37 |
03.02.08 | All Saints’ Church | A Sermon for Older People: I think I’m beginning to feel depressed. Even more so when I read Cicero: ”As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age: first, it withdraws us from active accomplishments; second, it renders the body less powerful; third, it deprives us of almost all forms of enjoyment; fourth, it stands not far from death.” | Rev. Tony Higton | Luke 2: 22-40 |
06.01.08 | All Saints’ Church | God is Working His Purpose Out: God brought about the incarnation of his son through the virgin birth in Bethlehem, attended by a heavenly choir, and the subsequent visit of the Magi from the East. Then King Herod hears of it and acts to destroy the infant Jesus, slaughtering other small boys in the process. On the face of it, is God really in control? | Rev. Tony Higton | – |
16.12.07 | All Saints Church | Mary’s Example: There is a major problem with the Christmas story in Britain: it tends to be ignored – even by Christians. Everyone knows that it is ignored amidst the commercial festivities. But it should also be noted that, because the story is so familiar, it can wash over Christians like warm shower water. | Rev. Tony Higton | Matt 1.18-25 |
09.12.07 | All Saints’ Church | The Generosity of God Challenges Us to Generosity: Are you finding life difficult? Are you hanging on by your finger tips- not sure if you can carry on? Perhaps just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse: it did. I’ve been there, and sympathize. | Rev. Tony Higton | Romans 15: 4-13 |
04.11.07 | St Mary’s Church | A Different Kind of Kingdom: We remember all the saints today – that doesn’t just mean those depicted in stained glass windows, because Paul wrote to the saints in Rome, the saints in Ephesus, the saints in Philippi – and he could just as well have written to the saints in the Woottons. | Patricia Higton | Matt. 5:1-12 |
07.10.07 | All Saints Church | A Harvest Challenge: I know of a clergyman who was preaching on this passage and couldn’t understand why the congregation became highly amused. He was speaking of Jesus teaching about the seed (of the word of God) falling on rocky (shallow) ground, where it soon stopped growing and was killed off by the hot sun. | Rev. Tony Higton | Luke 8: 1-15 |
02.09.07 | All Saints Church | “Life is not fair”: I don’t know how many times I’ve stood in front of grieving family and friends and acknowledged: “We’re all asking the question ‘why?’” | Rev. Tony Higton | – |
15.07.07 | All Saints Church | How do you inherit eternal life? Over the years I have spoken at meetings in many places and many countries. On occasions I have had someone come up to me to check out if I am orthodox. They tend to be more Evangelical believers. “Do you believe in the authority of the Bible?” | Rev. Tony Higton | Luke 10:25-37 |
08.07.07 | All Saints Church | A God Who Identifies: God loved us so much that he became one of us, experiencing all the pressures, suffering, disappointments, humiliation, injustice, unrequited affection and temptations that we do. | Rev. Tony Higton | Phil. 2:6-8; Col. 1:12-13; Heb. 4:15 |
01.07.07 | All Saints Church | The Only Organisation Which Exists Primarily for Non-Members: Why is the church the only organisation which exists primarily for non-members! Is it to get a higher income for the church? No, it’s because we believe in a Missionary God. He reaches out to the whole of humanity – every human being, to tell them about, and enable them to experience, salvation. Christianity is essentially a Missionary Religion. Mission, including Evangelism, is essential to Christianity. Without Mission and Evangelism Christianity is emasculated: a pale reflection of the real thing. | Rev. Tony Higton | Amos 4:13; Isaiah: 43:10; Psalms 98:2 |