Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44 “I was overjoyed, alleluia, when they said, ‘come with us to the House of the LORD’.” Do you remember that song? I…
2 Chronicles 30:1-19; John 17:1-1 On Wednesday 22nd June 1977 in an act of worship at Sydney Town Hall, and following the passing of various forms of “Uniting Church Act”…
Nicene Creed; Proverbs 8:22-9:6; Philippians 2:5-11 The doctrine of the Trinity is one of the central beliefs of the Christian Church that we all claim to believe, but which none…
Tobit 2:1-5; Acts 2:1-21 Pentecost. Pentecost is one of those tricky days when a preacher could say so much that he ends up saying nothing at all. More than once…
By our Love Acts 16:16-34; Revelation 22:12-17; John 17:20-26. In our story from the Christian Traditions today we drop in upon Paul, Luke and Silas in Philippi as they go…
Acts 16:9-15; Psalm 67:2; John 14:23-29 In our story from the Christian Traditions this morning we read how Paul heard God speak in the visionary voice of a man of…
Acts 11:1-18; Psalm 148; Revelation 21:1-6; John 13:31-35 Throughout his adult life, and more so in his death on the day after he sat at a table with his closest…
Luke 24:1-12; Acts 10:34-43 Hmm, “they”. I am always dubious about they. “They”. You know “they”, don’t you; they of “they have been saying”, or they of “they wear their…
Luke 24:1-12 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took spices… So begins Luke’s account of the day of resurrection. Why the women…
Isaiah 52:13-15; John 18:1-19:42. Good Friday is one of those days when you’d think the sermon would be obvious; after all, today is the day of the cross, the anniversary…