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Advent Three - We are made for Joy
To claim that we are made for Joy is quite a claim at any time but especially this year when lament and weeping may seem more natural...
Reverend Sue
Dec 10, 20244 min read
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Advent Two - Prepare the Way
The prophets remind us that God is always making a way toward us; making a way forward from out of the trouble we find ourselves in...
Reverend Sue
Dec 3, 20244 min read
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Advent One - Awake but not Alarmed
“There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and...
Reverend Sue
Nov 26, 20246 min read
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Preaching the Good News in Year C - The Gospel of Luke
For those of us who identify as progressive, inclusive, feminist, and with a social justice concern for those on the margins of society...
Reverend Sue
Nov 25, 20244 min read
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Enews November 2024
Greetings dear fellow companions on the way, Here we are at the culmination of the church year – the Reign of Christ – and the cusp of...
Reverend Sue
Nov 20, 20242 min read
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Reign of Christ - Longing and Listening for the dream of God
The language of kingship makes many of us uncomfortable. Christ the King, or Reign of Christ, is a relatively new celebration within the...
Reverend Sue
Nov 19, 20244 min read
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Destruction and Birth Pangs
Jesus and the disciples leave the Temple and one of the disciples effectively says: “My, what big stones these are!” To which Jesus...
Reverend Sue
Nov 12, 20245 min read
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A Widow's Mite of Faith
Our readings this week, as so often, amplify the place of tension and paradox that so many of us find ourselves in. (Mark 12:38-44....
Reverend Sue
Nov 7, 20244 min read
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Love of God is Love of Neighbor
The two great commandments teach us that love of God is inseparable from love of neighbour and self. There are no neat divisions between...
Reverend Sue
Oct 29, 20244 min read
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Are we also blind?
The story about Jesus healing blind Bartimaeus is both a compassionate and life changing healing story and a pointed corrective to...
Reverend Sue
Oct 22, 20243 min read
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Advent Year C: Worship Course
Advent has very little to do with preparing to receive a baby, even a holy baby, and everything to do with preparing for the One who...
Reverend Sue
Oct 20, 20243 min read
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Greatness and Power and Suffering
This week the world and the text seem to swirl around and through one another as we struggle to understand greatness and power and...
Reverend Sue
Oct 15, 20245 min read
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