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Reverend Sue
Sep 21, 20216 min read
Whoever is Not Against You is For You
Jesus, as remembered by Mark’s gospel, seems to delight in scandalising us by who is included and valued by God. (Nineteenth Sunday after...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 14, 20215 min read
Becoming Vulnerable
Jesus seems to delight in turning everything upside down! Do you want to become important? Then become as vulnerable and unimportant as...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 7, 20216 min read
Who Do You Say that I Am?
This week we learn, with and through Peter and the disciples, the true identity of Jesus the Holy One of God, or Messiah. And this...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 31, 20215 min read
The Good News is for All
It seems that living into the larger more inclusive heart and mind of God’s vision is not easy and that, dare we say it, even Jesus...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 24, 20215 min read
The Heart of the Matter
This week we hear Jesus challenging and seeking to break open the "too small ” mindset of the religious who focus on the appearance or...
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Reverend Sue
Jul 6, 20216 min read
The Prophets
The story of John the Baptist, especially the story of his ending, is very disconcerting. (RCL Mark 6:14-29) There is something about...
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Reverend Sue
Jun 29, 20215 min read
The Home Crowd
When Jesus makes his way back to his home town they are amazed and offended and consequently Jesus could do no act of power among them....
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Reverend Sue
Jun 22, 20215 min read
Healing
Jesus reaches across the human divide of important and unnamed, gender, and the chasm between life and death itself, in order to restore...
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Reverend Sue
Jun 15, 20215 min read
Power
The Jesus who stills the storm and commands calm is a Savior that most would want to follow (RCL Mark 4:35-41) but more often Jesus...
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Reverend Sue
Jun 8, 20217 min read
Seeds of Growth
Jesus did much of his teaching with parables which were filled with everyday images and yet confoundingly challenging and provocative....
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Reverend Sue
Jun 1, 20216 min read
Belonging
Watching the evening news, preparing for extended family gatherings, or parish meetings it is hard not to be aware of the divisions...
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Reverend Sue
Mar 30, 20213 min read
Easter Day
“He has been raised, he is not here.” Mark’s account of the resurrection still bears some of the rawness of a recent event – an event so...
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