Lent Five - Extravagant love as a response to Fear
At this time of year, at this moment in history, many of us are painfully aware of the fear and hopelessness, of the violence and...
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Reverend Sue
Mar 22, 20225 min read
Lent Four - Turning toward Home
This Sunday traditionally marks half way, the turning point, in the journey of Lent. Our readings (RCL Joshua 5:2-12; Psalm 32; 2...
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Reverend Sue
Mar 15, 20225 min read
Lent Three - Suffering and Bearing Fruit
We know that if we go on the journey toward Jerusalem with Jesus we are going to be confronted by his terrible human suffering as one of...
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Reverend Sue
Mar 8, 20225 min read
Lent Two - Promises for Dark Times
We have some dark, mysterious, brooding images this week in our Scripture which in many ways mirror our external world at the moment with...
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Reverend Sue
Mar 1, 20225 min read
Lent One - Remembering
Lent is many things including a journey in which we remember Jesus the fully human and holy one who lived and died and rose again as one...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 27, 20224 min read
A Meditation on Ash
Most of us know at some point the sense of our life being in ashes. It may be an intensely personal loss that we have suffered or the...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 22, 20225 min read
The Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is one of those moments in the gospel when we can see as well as hear that Jesus is both fully human and fully divine...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 15, 20225 min read
Love is not a transaction
Love is more than a transaction, a deal we seek to make with God, neighbour and life. And let’s admit it – loving those we belong to...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 8, 20225 min read
What better leads to life
There is nothing like a brush with mortality to sharpen the senses and invite reflection on what really makes for life. This week I had...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 1, 20225 min read
The Word as Holy Seed
The call of the prophet Isaiah is exciting and disturbing with the glory of God made visible and yet in contrast the painful...
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Reverend Sue
Jan 25, 20225 min read
The Disturbing Word of God
The Word of God often disturbs the one called to speak; those who are the hearers of the Word; and disturbs the social order of the...
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Reverend Sue
Jan 18, 20226 min read
The Enlivening Word of God
The Word of God is expressed in creation, most fully in Jesus who was known as the Word made flesh, and in Scripture. And when we truly...
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