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Scars – John 20:19-29 I have a scar on my left foot. It’s three centimetres long and I got it when I was four and my dad had taken me to a scrap metal yard. (Parenting in the early 70’s!) The yard had a guard dog and I decided it Read more…

God’s new world – Luke 24:1-12, 1Corinthians 1:18-21, 26-30 It is always daunting on Easter Sunday morning to say something adequate about the absolutely new and unexpected event of the resurrection, about the new life we have been given, about the new world God is creating – which, as Martin Read more…

May the mind… – Philippians 2:5-11, Psalm 31:9-16 When I was thinking about hymns for today’s service, the one that came immediately to mind was, “May the mind of Christ my Saviour live in me from day to day…” It’s a beautiful hymn and a well-loved hymn and – Rebecca Read more…

Where does the oil come from? – John 12:1-8, Isaiah 61 It is challenging to preach on a passage as well-known as this one – Mary anointing Jesus. An event recorded by all the gospel writers, all in different ways, though in every account there are consistent elements; Jesus is Read more…

Each year various dictionary type organisations announce their ‘word of the year’.  An Australian version is run by the Macquarie Dictionary.  Prominent words of the last few years have been “staycation” (which we are all familiar with now), “onsie” (an item of clothing I’ve chosen not to wear today), “captain’s Read more…

Luke 13:1-9 – God, the Constant Gardener Around the turn of the last century, a young couple, Sid and Ada Cope of Newtown in Sydney, had their first child, a little boy. Ada’s breast milk, however, did not come and when the baby was three days old, having been feed Read more…

Calling God a chicken – Psalm 139, Luke 13:31-35 I was going to begin the sermon by asking all of you – If God was an animal, what animal would that be? But we’ve already covered that in the children’s talk and Jesus’ answer, in our Luke passage, is still Read more…

Baptist Values – Freedom – 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 Over the last few weeks, we have been working through a series on Baptist values, thinking, talking, and learning about where we, as Baptist Christians came from, what has shaped our distinctive community of faith and what should continue to shape our Read more…