Destruction and Birth Pangs
Jesus and the disciples leave the Temple and one of the disciples effectively says: “My, what big stones these are!” To which Jesus...
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Reverend Sue
Nov 74 min read
A Widow's Mite of Faith
Our readings this week, as so often, amplify the place of tension and paradox that so many of us find ourselves in. (Mark 12:38-44....
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Reverend Sue
Oct 294 min read
Love of God is Love of Neighbor
The two great commandments teach us that love of God is inseparable from love of neighbour and self. There are no neat divisions between...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 223 min read
Are we also blind?
The story about Jesus healing blind Bartimaeus is both a compassionate and life changing healing story and a pointed corrective to...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 155 min read
Greatness and Power and Suffering
This week the world and the text seem to swirl around and through one another as we struggle to understand greatness and power and...
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Reverend Sue
Oct 84 min read
Attachment and Detachment
If we do not feel as though a two edged sword has penetrated us to the marrow then maybe we have not heard the gospel! (Mark 10:17-31....
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Reverend Sue
Oct 14 min read
Jesus joins us in our Brokenness
Jesus joins us in our brokenness, indeed embraces us although little and unimportant, even to the point of tasting death. (Twentieth...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 174 min read
Welcoming Littleness
We continue with the hard teachings of Jesus as he prepares his disciples for his suffering and death and also for what it means to be...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 105 min read
What sort of Messiah?
It seems that Peter’s recognition of Jesus as Messiah, the holy one, the anointed one of God, leads to as many soul searching questions...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 36 min read
Be Opened
“Be opened”, said Jesus to the deaf man. (Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 18 [23]. Mark 7:24-37; and James 2:1-17.) Be opened is...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 274 min read
The State of our Hearts
Most of us, as people of faith, live in the challenging terrain between righteous laws, the call to have true hearts and the call to be...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 204 min read
A difficult teaching
We come at last to the end of our exploration of Jesus as the Bread of Life in the gospel of John (Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost....
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