Palm Sunday

  What do we want? – Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Luke 19:21-40 This week as Palm Sunday has drawn closer, I’ve been thinking about the chants you hear at protests and marches. Join in – if you know them! “Hey hey, ho ho, (eg racism) has got to go.” Or, “What Read more…

Soul Feast – Sabbath

The Sacred Art of Ceasing (no sermon recording available) Deuteronomy 5:6-21, Luke 14:1-6 Today is the last of the sermons focused on the book by Marjorie Thompson called Soul Feast. Although the chapter I am basing my sermon on comes in the middle of the book, it seems appropriate that it Read more…

Soul Feast – Prayer

Soul Feast – Prayer (Psalm 27, Luke 18:1-8) Today we continue our series, based on Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson, exploring the practices or disciplines that for centuries Christians have practiced to strengthen their spiritual life – in other words how God relates to us and how we relate to Read more…

Soul Feast: Spiritual Reading

Hebrews 4: 12-16, Psalm 119 As a congregation, we are working our way through series on spiritual practices – based on Soul Feast by Marjorie Thompson – that Christians over the centuries have discovered and developed and practiced themselves in order to know God more deeply, more responsively, more transformatively Read more…

Soul Feast: Love and Justice

Share God’s love and justice/Soul Feast – Amos 5:18-24 & Luke 10:38-42 As a tool for understanding the world around us, human beings are drawn to dichotomies– dividing things into two different or opposing parts; good and evil, the body and the soul, civilised and uncivilised, South Canberra and North Read more…

Soul Feast: Hospitality

10 February 2019 Hospitality … It is something that we do, it is something anchored in the Gospel story, it is a strong thread in the Judeo-Christian tradition in terms of table fellowship, it is welcoming, it is as Marjorie Thompson in ‘Soul Feast’ describes receiving another from the heart, Read more…