Smile & Wave – Luke 19:1-10 No audio recording this week, sorry! In just a few verses in this passage Luke paints a vivid picture of Jesus travelling through Jericho; people crowding in around him, perhaps putting their children on their shoulders and jostling with each other where the streets get Read more…
Matthew 15:21-28 My first words to you in July last year were words that expressed a great sense of gratitude and excitement to be standing among you all. And it is with great regret that my final words to you don’t embody the same enthusiasm. Today my final words carry Read more…
Luke 17:11-21 Sometimes, as you read Luke’s gospel, Jesus sounds like the kind of project manager you want on the job; the one who’s clearly focused on the objective, who knows the costs and who’ll bring everything in on schedule. Like in Luke 14 where Jesus outlines the cost of Read more…
2 Timothy 1:1-14 Luke 17:5-10 I don’t know if you’ve noticed this. (Actually, I am sure you have!) But from time to time as you read Scripture, Jesus says something quite jarring. Of course, if we were more honest with ourselves and with how we read Scripture, this would probably Read more…
Jeremiah 32:1-3 ; 9-13 Our OT text from the lectionary takes us to Jeremiah, a prophet of God. The prophets and the prophetic writings come from a different place to the legalistic priestly school or even to the wisdom writings of the creative sages. The prophets don’t share the Read more…
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…