Christmas Day - One of Us
“While they were there the time came for her to deliver her child. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of...
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Reverend Sue
Dec 18, 20223 min read
Christmas Eve - Holy Night
For many of us this is our favourite time of the year and this night our favourite church service of the year. To gather in the middle of...
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Reverend Sue
Dec 13, 20225 min read
Advent Four - Ready or Not
At long last the Christmas story we have all been waiting for. But if we have been waiting for a Christmas card sweet and gentle account...
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Reverend Sue
Dec 6, 20224 min read
Advent Three - Making ourselves available to Joy
At last – something anticipating Christmas Joy! Indeed we are invited to prepare ourselves for eternal joy and gladness starting now...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 29, 20225 min read
Advent Two - Preparing for the Coming of God
Hopeful images of peace and tumultuous descriptions of disturbance, the longed for reign of God and yet our unreadiness for a life of...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 22, 20225 min read
Advent One - Awaken
Wake up. Get up. Clothe yourself in Christ. The day is near. (Advent One. Matthew 24:36-44; Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; and Romans...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 15, 20224 min read
Christ the King
What do we mean when we as church proclaim Jesus as Christ the King? (Luke 23:33-43; Jeremiah 23:1-6; Song of Zechariah; and Colossians...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 31, 20224 min read
All Saints
All Saints is that gift of a festival in which we can remember the saints of our tradition and give thanks for their continuing witness...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 25, 20225 min read
Seeking the One who is Seeking Us
The story of Zacchaeus shimmying up a tree to better see Jesus and then having Jesus invite himself to a long lunch (Luke 19:1-10. Twenty...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 18, 20225 min read
Stripping Away the Layers of Resistance
One way of understanding the Christian spiritual growth journey is the unending stripping away of the layers of resistance, ego...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 11, 20224 min read
Persistence as Spiritual Practice
Most of us have been taught that the parable about the unjust judge and the persevering widow (Luke 18:1-14, Nineteenth Sunday after...
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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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