Finding our way towards Yes
This parable challenges us to honestly acknowledge the “No” that reflects our tiredness, our fearfulness, our resistance to God’s world...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 19, 20235 min read
The Vineyard
This is one of those parables which dis-quietens many of us. (Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 17 [25] Matthew 20:1-16.) We...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 12, 20235 min read
Forgiveness and Forgiving
Forgiveness is at the centre of what it means to be in Christian community: acknowledging our need of forgiveness by God and others;...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 5, 20235 min read
Being the Community of Christ
This week’s Scripture (Matthew 18 in general and 10-20 in particular. Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 18[23]) is all about what...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 29, 20235 min read
How does taking up a cross lead to life?
At the centre of our beliefs is the suffering and death of Jesus expressed in resurrection and his call that we too take up our cross and...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 22, 20234 min read
To be transformed
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God –...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 15, 20236 min read
A Woman of Great Faith
This week we have one of the most uncomfortable stories about Jesus where he ignores then appears to reject the Canaanite woman. And then...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 8, 20234 min read
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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Reverend Sue
Aug 1, 20234 min read
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...
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Reverend Sue
Jul 25, 20236 min read
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...
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Reverend Sue
Jul 18, 20235 min read
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...
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Reverend Sue
Jul 11, 20234 min read
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...
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