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Play Service When I think about ‘giving thanks’ – and reading the book of Colossians you are prompted frequently to think about giving thanks, I am reminded of a short poem by American writer and children’s author Judith Viorst. It’s called ‘Thank you Note’ and it goes like this: I Read more…

Little People – 2 Kings 5:1-14 and Galatians 6:7-16 This is – probably for reasons that are obvious – one of my favourite Old Testament Bible stories, a story where God’s nature breaks through – where the downward compassionate movement of God is revealed – for in this story those Read more…

26 June – Transitions (2 Kings 2:1-14, 2 Corinthians 13:5-11) Nobody is good in transitions. This was a piece of wisdom Nathan Lattimore, who was here as interim pastor a few years ago, received from Stephen Baxter, his minister at Hobart Baptist. Nobody is good in transitions. It simply means Read more…

19 June – Refugee Week (Psalm 43, Luke 9:51-62) One very welcome characteristic of our 47th Parliament is the increase in diversity. There are more women. There are now ten Indigenous MPS. And the number of non-European and non- Indigenous members has risen from 9 to 13. Parliament is still Read more…

Trinity (Romans 5:1-5, John 16:12-15) I am going to tell you a story I have told before about a meeting I was part of many years ago to plan a ‘Baptists Today’ conference… Baptists Today, to fill some of you in, was a conference for Baptists from all over Australia Read more…

For the Spirit of God beside/in/through us – John 14:8-17,25-27 A few weeks ago, we went to a friend’s 50th birthday and when it came time for speeches she told us a story – a story famously told by Russell Conwell, an American Baptist minister in the late 19th, early Read more…