Maundy Thursday
Jesus spent his last hours on earth as he had spent the three years before. Speaking and acting in love – tender, passionate, desperate,...
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Reverend Sue
Mar 23, 20215 min read
Palm Sunday
Palm or Passion Sunday is the day we hear of our Lord’s passion for us and remember the last week of his human life, the culmination of...
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Mar 16, 20215 min read
Lent Five
“Very truly I tell you unless a grain of wheat ... dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.” Jesus only...
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Reverend Sue
Mar 9, 20216 min read
Lent Four
In the light of the Scriptures this week I have to acknowledge that I too belong to the “murmuring” tradition – that I too grumble,...
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Reverend Sue
Mar 2, 20216 min read
Lent Three
The cleansing of the temple is a story, depending on your personality and theology, that is thrilling, disturbing, or confusing – or all...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 23, 20214 min read
Lent Two
Take up your cross, not just for Lent but for life. Jesus seems to be saying: If you want any part of me have it all – the teaching and...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 18, 20215 min read
Lent One
Forty days, or forty years, in a short hand way of the Bible telling us that something very significant is happening that brings about a...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 14, 20213 min read
Ash Wednesday
The Ash Wednesday service is a very simple and ancient one. It is both sober and sensual as we smell the smoke, and receive the gritty...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 9, 20216 min read
Transfiguration
The transfiguration is a movable feast in the church calendar. It can be celebrated the last Sunday before Lent, or the second Sunday of...
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Reverend Sue
Feb 2, 20216 min read
A Day in the life of Jesus
The nearness of the kingdom of God is made known by teaching with authority, healing on the Sabbath, eating with friends and family, and...
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Reverend Sue
Jan 26, 20215 min read
Love Builds Up
The themes of knowledge, power, authority, wisdom and love, do seem to run through our RCL readings this week (Deuteronomy 18:15-20,...
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Reverend Sue
Jan 19, 20215 min read
Called to Nineveh
Most of us, like Jonah, would prefer to be sent to Tarshish than to Nineveh. The story of the call of Jonah is in many ways the grumpy...
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