The Rev. Canon Dr. Kendall Harmon (yes Anglicans love their titles 
) has posted a video on his site which he calls “Archbishop Rowan Williams’s video message to mark the beginning of Lent 2010″. When I clicked to watch it I straight away recalled I had seen it before. It is in fact last year’s video. It’s a good reminder that many people regularly make too much of sermons. I don’t want to deny their value, but let’s keep them in perspective – if you don’t believe me, survey your community a month from now what the sermon was about on, say, Sunday Feb 7 and see what proportion remember. Meanwhile, if you want to hear the Archbishop of Canterbury on Lent again, here it is:
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This is very bad advice, Bosco, to use last year’s sermons. I have it on good authority that once upon a time an unwise colleague tried this and found that he started receiving last year’s payslips
Perhaps your observations say more about the dire state of modern Anglican sermons than about the importance of the sermon within the liturgy?