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…
Psalm 22; John 18:1-19:42 Today is not a funeral; but is power for the Church. Today is a day of sorrow; but is not a day of mourning. Today is…
Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29; Matthew 21:1-11 Palm Sunday is one of those days of which I have specific memories from childhood. I couldn’t tell you what happened on the third Sunday…
1 Samuel 16:1-5b; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-7 Today’s set readings are a bit of a puzzle in that there’s a lot of different options from them. From the Hebrew tradition…