Genesis 1:1-2:4a; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; We believe. According to Hebrews 11:1 our faith is the assurance of things hoped for [and] the conviction of things not seen: faith is the…
Numbers 11:23-30; Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:27-30; 1 Corinthians 12:4-11. Last week when I was at Pomonal I spoke with them about Ascension as a forgotten festival. Did Julie take you…
Acts 1:1-11; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:36-53. Ascension is one of those days in the liturgical calendar that many Uniting Church congregations appear to overlook. It’s there marked on my lectionary;…
Acts 17:22-31; Psalms 66:8-20. In today’s reading from Acts 17 we earwig on Paul’s address to the Areopagus on the topic of an unknown god. Paul is both a scholar…
Acts 7:55-60; Psalms 31:1-5, 15-16; 1 Peter 2:2-10. Oftentimes when I have got up to preach here I have made some comment about the Lectionary and how it likes to…
Acts 2:42-47; 1 Peter 2:18-25; John 10:1-10 In today’s reading from the Jesus Tradition, Jesus himself tells us in a pastural metaphor that as his disciples we follow him, the…
Acts 2:14a, 36-41; Psalms 116:1-4, 12-19; 1 Peter 1:17-23. I have told you before, but here it is again, during the months between May 2003 and January 2009 I belonged…
Acts 2:14a, 22-32; Psalms 16; 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31 On God’s Friday, Stawell heard Australian spirituality described in the words of historian C. Manning Clark as “a shy hope…
Hello and happy Easter. Christ is Risen, He is Risen indeed! On Thursday afternoon, as I was setting up our Maundy meditation at St Matthew’s I was speaking with one…
Colossians 3:1-4; Acts 10:34-43; John 20 1:18 One of my favourite songs for Resurrection Sunday is not a hymn or chorus, or even a “church song” at all. It’s by…