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Crossing the street ourselves – Acts 9:1-20, Psalm 122 Three months ago, we explored together some of our distinctive Baptist values; discipleship (the call of God to each one of us to be part of God’s work), community, mission and freedom, and this month we begin another time-honoured Baptist practice Read more

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