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Introducing Jesus – John 1:1-18 We had dinner with the Trimbles this week and got to talking about getting to know people in different countries and the different sorts of questions that people ask. In Hong Kong, they were saying, they had to get used to people asking, “How old Read more…

Attire – 1 Samuel 2:18-21, Colossians 3:17-21 The best joke in our Christmas bon bons yesterday’s was this: Q: What’s the difference between a well-dressed person on a bike and a poorly dressed person on a uni-cycle? A: Attire You could ask the same about the readings this morning. Q: Read more…

Singing in a pandemic – 25 December, 2021 It did not surprise me that one of my last work duties for 2021 – apart from writing and delivering one and half sermons (the half will be tomorrow) – was to contact the ACT Covid Helpline and ask a question about Read more…

Midwifing Love – Luke 1:39-55 There’s a story that has stuck with me – interesting how some stories do that – from Tim Costello’s Streets of Hope about the birth of his and Merridie’s first child (while he was studying at Rueschlikon in Switzerland under Dr Thorwald Lorenzen). How they Read more…

Message – Joy for a change But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for see—I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people: Todays reading is one that we know well. The angel announces God’s gift. Good news that will bring joy to Read more…

5 December 2021 Advent 2: Peace for a Change! Isaiah 52:7-10, Luke 1:68-79 While I was preparing this week I came across a reference to a song that Canadian singer Anne Murray recorded in 1983. I didn’t know it, but some of you might. It is called “A little good Read more…

Hope for a change – Jeremiah 33:14-16, Luke 21:25-36 The church I grew up in had a worldview (or perhaps an end-of-the-worldview) that we were waiting for the worst year ever! Things would get worse and worse and worse and worse and then Jesus would return, and the world would Read more…

You make all things new – 1 Samuel 1:3-20, Luke 4:16-30 The promise, ‘you make all things new, you make all things new…’ that we sang earlier comes from Revelations 21 alongside other promises that one day God will be intimately known by God’s people (“See the home of God Read more…