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Questions that lead to life
We are confronted by two telling questions this week. Both of which speak to us on the faith journey - especially at those times and...
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Aug 8, 20234 min read
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Feeding the Hungry
The miraculous feeding of the four or five thousand is a story we know well and some variation turns up in each of the gospels. The...
Reverend Sue
Aug 1, 20234 min read
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The Subversive Nature of the Kingdom
This week we continue to hear what Jesus had to say about the kingdom of heaven (Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, Proper 12 [17]. Matthew...
Reverend Sue
Jul 25, 20236 min read
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Wheat and Weeds
The parable of the wheat and the weeds is one of the many counter intuitive moments in Scripture that remind us God’s grace breaks into...
Reverend Sue
Jul 18, 20235 min read
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Teaching in Parables
Jesus uses parables to reveal, to encourage, to challenge those open to the kingdom, and to confound those not in the right frame of mind...
Reverend Sue
Jul 11, 20234 min read
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Copy of What do you Desire?
Desire is not a topic many of us are comfortable with in Christian circles and yet it is a strong and recurrent theme in life and our...
Reverend Sue
Jul 3, 20235 min read
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Sacrifice and Surrender
The story of Abraham and Isaac, sometimes called the Akedah or the binding of Isaac, is pivotal to the Jewish and Christian faiths. And...
Reverend Sue
Jun 27, 20235 min read
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Who Belongs?
We have some very difficult and disturbing texts to grapple with this week leading us to reflect on who is family, tribe, group and who...
Reverend Sue
Jun 20, 20236 min read
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God is to be found in Hospitality
God can be found in the providing of hospitality to strangers and in those times when we are open to the hospitality of others. (Third...
Reverend Sue
Jun 13, 20235 min read
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St Paul reflects on Faith
This week (Second Sunday after Pentecost, or Proper 5 [10]) we begin a season of reading St Paul and his letter to the Romans. It is...
Reverend Sue
Jun 6, 20237 min read
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Trinity - The Heart of God is Community
The Trinity is something we can get ourselves in a knot over. I have certainly wrestled with the idea and construction of the Trinity....
Reverend Sue
May 30, 20234 min read
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Pentecost - We are given the Spirit for the common good
Here we are – Pentecost (Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:26-36; 1 Corinthians 12:1-13; and John 20:19-23), the culmination of the Easter season....
Reverend Sue
May 23, 20234 min read
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