Simon Vibert

personal website

Welcome

We preach, not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. (2 Corinthians 4:5).  What a great verse!  I love it because it does just what Charles Simeon longed to do whenever he entered the pulpit: "To humble the penitent, to exalt the Saviour and to promote holiness."  Simeon is best known for his long service in the University Church, Holy Trinity Cambridge.  When he died in 1836, he had written 12,536 skeletal outlines of expository sermons preached from the Bible.  If there was a secret to his ongoing influence among younger preachers, it was surely this life conviction about the purpose of preaching.

This is the personal website of Simon Vibert.  The purpose of this website is to put together teaching and sermon resources which I have written/spoken for free download.  They are no where near as vast, incisive or extensive as Simeon, but, they are modest resources for a modern age!  My blog is updated more frequently than this site and includes comment on contemporary issues, such as BBC executives pay, challenges of preaching in the contemporary age, comment on a Christian response to the recessions, X Factor and Robbie Williams and more, please see: http://metamorphe.wordpress.com/

New stuff

Article on John Calvin and implications for Theological Training, first published in the Church of England Newspaper January 2010 John Calvin

New Fund Raising Challenge!

My colleague Chris Leftley and I are cycling from Lands End to John O'Groats (0ver 900 miles) from July 6th.

If you can connect with us along the way, it would be great to see you (please send me an email)!

Our HUGE goal is to raise £10,000 for much needed teaching resources for Wycliffe Hall to help us equip men and women for 21st century ministry in God's Church.

For more information or to give please go to our Justgiving page http://www.justgiving.com/simon-vibert

Thank you for you support for my London to Paris ride last year - a brief write up may be found at here

Lives Jesus Changed due in January 2010

If you look at a family album we will begin to get an idea of the events, which have occurred in the life of that particular family. John's Gospel gives a snapshot of Jesus life and the lives he changed. John's gospel tells the story of Jesus the saviour of the world who came in flesh to forgive sins. Simon Vibert invites us to come and see the lives Jesus changed. But all these characters that we meet are not the one that the people had been waiting for. Jesus was that one but all these characters were "signposts" that pointed to Jesus so that might cause us to respond. Ideal for individuals or small group studies.

Commendations from Jonathan Fletcher, Greg Scharf and Paul Wells

Order details at http://www.christianfocus.com/item/show/1310/-/sr_c_1_i

(These links will take you away from this site).

Trinity Church Buxton weekend away.  4 talks on the theme Lives Jesus Changed:

Talk One - Characters Make Stories

Talk Two - Disciples: Seeing Jesus' Glory

Talk Three - Nicodemus: A Religious Conservative is Challenged

Talk Four - Woman of Samaria: A Questioning Woman is Transformed

More about Trinity Church may be found at www.trinitychurchbuxton.org.uk

Published in Anvil Spring 2009 Lives Jesus Changed.

Christ Church Virginia Water Men's Breakfast Talk - the Truth about Heaven and Hell 

Solent Gospel Partnership - 2 talks on "Preaching that changes Hearts"

Eastbourne Easter 2009 Bible by the Beach conference in  was a great success.  My three Leadership Seminar PowerPoint's may be downloaded below

Talk one    Talk two    Talk three

Langham Seminar in Ndola Zambia April 2009

Left - me with Conrad Mwebe

Right - the Victoria Falls

Click here to read my diary reflections

Visit my web blog at http://metamorphe.wordpress.com/ which has comment on current Anglican Issues, travel updates and summary of recent writing including a review of the recent best-seller "The Shack".  I have also uploaded some of my thoughts on Preaching as well as 2 posts on the current financial crisis.  The second of these is a summary of the recent lecture given by Lord Brian Griffiths, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International on a Christian perspective on the credit crunch at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford.

I am an ordained minister in the Church of England.  I believe that ministry is primarily about teaching and living by the bible.  God revealed Himself in history in His Son, Jesus Christ, who John calls "the word made flesh".  God continues to reveal himself today through His living Word, the Bible.  We connect to God by hearing and heeding His word.

This has been the ministry which I have been involved in for the last 18 years.  However in July 2007, after Church based work in Carlisle, Buxton and Wimbledon, I took up a new post at Wycliffe Hall Oxford as Vice Principal.  My particular responsibility is to set up the School of Preaching to better equip a new generation of Christian Ministers with the joy and privilege of making the living word known through the preaching of the written word.  See www.wycliffe.ox.ac.uk.

Please follow the links for more information about preaching, contemporary issues, Wycliffe Hall, speaking engagements, and my background and testimony etc.

Here you can find a collection of sermons preached and articles written.

Please check back for updated articles, sermon resources, online MP3 sermons and fresh publications.

Summer Sunday series at All Saints, Algarve.  Current series of sermons on the Sermon on the Mount preached at St Ebbe's Church Headington, Oxford are now uploaded.  There are also a small selection of sermons from Richard Bewes, Gordon Bridger, Dick Lucas, Archbishop Greg Venables.

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