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 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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Reverend Sue
Oct 3, 20234 min read
A Song for the Beloved Vineyard
This week we have a love song for a vineyard and another parable about a vineyard (Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 22 [27] ...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 26, 20234 min read
Finding our way towards Yes
This parable challenges us to honestly acknowledge the “No” that reflects our tiredness, our fearfulness, our resistance to God’s world...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 19, 20235 min read
The Vineyard
This is one of those parables which dis-quietens many of us. (Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 17 [25] Matthew 20:1-16.) We...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 12, 20235 min read
Forgiveness and Forgiving
Forgiveness is at the centre of what it means to be in Christian community: acknowledging our need of forgiveness by God and others;...
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Reverend Sue
Sep 5, 20235 min read
Being the Community of Christ
This week’s Scripture (Matthew 18 in general and 10-20 in particular. Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 18[23]) is all about what...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 29, 20235 min read
How does taking up a cross lead to life?
At the centre of our beliefs is the suffering and death of Jesus expressed in resurrection and his call that we too take up our cross and...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 22, 20234 min read
To be transformed
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God –...
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Reverend Sue
Aug 15, 20236 min read
A Woman of Great Faith
This week we have one of the most uncomfortable stories about Jesus where he ignores then appears to reject the Canaanite woman. And then...
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