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Reverend Sue
Dec 26, 20235 min read
The Naming of Jesus
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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Reverend Sue
Dec 23, 20233 min read
Because of Christmas
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us full of grace. And because of this everything is different. No matter how hard that is to...
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Reverend Sue
Dec 19, 20235 min read
Advent Four - Saying Yes
At long last readings that sound like Christmas!! With only one sleep to go we at last hear the Christmas story as we best know it...
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Reverend Sue
Dec 12, 20234 min read
Advent Three - Radical Hope
To believe, or even to want to believe, the promises of this week’s Scriptures is a radical act of hope and defiant faithfulness in the...
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Reverend Sue
Dec 5, 20233 min read
Advent Two - The Good News
The gospel of Mark begins with these stirring words: “The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ.” (Advent Two. Isaiah 40:1-11; Mark...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 28, 20236 min read
Advent One - Preparing for a New Creation
What a way to begin a new year with images of endings and destruction! This is not the way most of us celebrate the calendar new year....
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Reverend Sue
Nov 21, 20233 min read
The Reign of Christ
At this, and many disturbing moments in human and personal history, many of us long for Jesus the Christ to come down and reign over our...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 7, 20235 min read
Oil for our Lamps
“Be awake therefore as you do not know the hour or the day.” (Matthew 25:1-13. Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 27 [32]) It...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 31, 20235 min read
All are God's Children
“They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat; for the lamb at the centre of the...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 24, 20235 min read
The Two Great Commandments
The two great commandments are a summary of the whole law and the goal of our striving and growing; it is the central tenant of the...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 17, 20235 min read
What belongs to God?
This week we have one of those moments I wish I’d witnessed in person – this ancient text, many times translated, still sings and stings...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 10, 20235 min read
The Wedding Banquet
We come to the troubling images and themes in the parable of the wedding banquet (Matthew 21:1-14. Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost....
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