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
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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Reverend Sue
Jan 12, 20215 min read
To know and be known
To know and be known is one of the deepest human longings. I believe it is one of the ways in which we bear the divine spark – this...
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Reverend Sue
Jan 5, 20215 min read
The Baptism of Jesus
Things that were once separate – creation and the creator, human and divine, flesh and spirit – are being declared Beloved and...
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Reverend Sue
Dec 29, 20204 min read
Epiphany
The celebration of Epiphany (RCL readings for January 6th or closest Sunday, Matthew 2:1-12) reminds us that the coming of the light into...
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Dec 25, 20205 min read
Unwrapping the Christmas Child
Only a few days after Christmas and already we are being asked to unwrap what the birth of this both ordinary and unique baby means. In...
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