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Luke 14:1,7-14 No sermon recording this week, apologies. (office manager needs IT help!)   On one occasion Jesus went to the house of the leader of the Pharisees for a meal, on the sabbath, and they were watching … right away we know there is something going on.  And then Read more…

Psalm 71:1-6  Luke 13:6-9 No sermon recording available this week   You know this is a rather strange saying of Jesus.  But it is one that perhaps has a very profound meaning in terms of God’s presence with us.  At the beginning of the chapter where this verse comes, there Read more…

Hebrews 11:32-12:3 This will surprise none of you, but I am not a keen runner. In the roof of our house there’s a box with some of my school days paraphernalia and in it are two sporting ribbons. One, from year 8, for second prize in the hurdles and the Read more…

Guest Speak Sister Miriam from the Community of the Transfiguration in Victoria. No text available this week.

Hosea 11 Across the confused and vicious years of political upheaval and conquest, across the terrain of tyranny, anarchy and the abandonment of the ways of sacred law and all things just and holy, Hosea brings a very special message of God. And it is simply and most profoundly a message of love.    When Israel was Read more…

Opposite of elimination – Genesis 18: 20-32 I chose this morning’s reading through a process of elimination. If you’re familiar with the lectionary, the three year cycle that moves through Scripture and the church year and unites us with Christians around the world, thinking and reflecting on these same passages, Read more…

Due to technical issues there is no audio recording available this week. Feeling God’s pleasure – Genesis 1:24-27,31 & Luke 10:38-42 If you were asked to say – in a word or a short phrase – one thing that really matters to you, one thing you would like to be Read more…

Lawyers – Luke 10:25-37; Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Which of the people in our well-known and widely known gospel reading this morning do you identify with most? Is it the Samaritan? I think we’d all love to be the Samaritan, wouldn’t we? To think that in any given situation, we would be Read more…

Luke 9:51-62 Jesus has come from the dizzy heights of the mountain where he was transfigured before the very eyes of Peter James and John.   It was the next day, and there are, in Luke’s story, some incidents that accentuate the deep nature of the messianic mission of Jesus and Read more…