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Mar 195 min read

Palm Sunday - The Kingdom or the Empire

Two processions made their way into Jerusalem on the day we remember as Palm Sunday. One procession came from the west of the Roman...

Reverend Sue

Mar 124 min read

Year B

Lent Five - The great cycle of Life

Like many of us in Australia and the southern hemisphere I have had reason of late to drive along the various highways and byways where...

Reverend Sue

Mar 54 min read

Year B

Lent Four - Looking to the cross

At this point in Lent the cross begins to loom large and cast its shadow over us. But what does that mean exactly? And how do our curious...

Reverend Sue

Feb 275 min read

Year B

Lent Three - A Revolution of Love

Jesus comes overturning not only the money changers tables in the Temple but all our carefully constructed systems of merit, identity,...

Reverend Sue

Feb 204 min read

Year B

Lent Two - Self Emptying Love

Only week two of Lent and already we glimpse the heart, the task, the challenge of not only Lent but in some sense the very gospel and...

Lent One - And into the wilderness we go

Reverend Sue

Feb 145 min read

Year B

Lent One - And into the wilderness we go

The journey of Lent leads us into the wilderness. But it does not start there! According to the gospel of Mark, Lent begins with Jesus...

Reverend Sue

Jan 174 min read

Worship Courses

Lent & Easter Year B: Worship Course

Is it really a year since we last prepared ourselves for the Lenten journey? In many ways Lent is the perennial path, the spiralling...

Reverend Sue

Mar 28, 20234 min read

Year A

Lent Six - Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday is the beginning of Holy Week and the time we hear of our Lord’s passion for us and remember the last week of his human life:...

Lent Five - A Foretaste of Restoration, Renewal and Resurrection

Reverend Sue

Mar 21, 20236 min read

Year A

Lent Five - A Foretaste of Restoration, Renewal and Resurrection

In the readings for Lent Five (John 11:1-45; Ezekiel 37:1-14; Psalm 130; and Romans 8:6-11.) we see and hear a foretaste of resurrection...

Reverend Sue

Mar 14, 20235 min read

Year A

Lent Four - To Be Seen and To See

This week the readings seem to invite us to explore how God sees us, how well or blindly we see, and how this process of being seen, of...

Reverend Sue

Mar 7, 20235 min read

Year A

Lent Three - Thirsting for Life

To be human is to be thirsty – for water, meaning, security, adventure, relationship, belonging – for life. The stories this week (Lent...

Reverend Sue

Feb 28, 20236 min read

Year A

Lent Two - Being Born Again

We tend to think of Lent as unmitigated suffering and heaviness but in this second week of the season of Lent we have this beautiful...