Simon Vibert

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!

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

Published in Anvil Spring 2009 Lives Jesus Changed. My book is expected early 2010 to be published by Christian Focus.

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

Big Issue Fundraising Cycle Ride for the Homeless

Awesome sponsorship experience for you to share with me! I am planning to cycle from London to Paris to raise money for "The Big Issue", 23rd - 26th July 2009. It will take three days to ride the 230 miles.

It will be an amazing experience, but one with a very serious purpose. I am required to raise £1300 which will go to the organisation which publishes the Big Issue Magazine designed to help the Homeless get themselves financially secure and off the streets.

Why am I doing this?

How can you sponsor me? This is the easiest way to give, tax efficient, and also means that the donation goes straight to the charity. They encourage riders to get all donations in a month before the event, so, but using this method you are able to get the funds directly to them.

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.

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