Sermons
Our weekly sermons
We are Trinity – Strong Together
Strong: None of us like coming across as weak, no matter whatever age we are. And you know how some people latch on to any sign of weakness in another. Perhaps part of your story has been learning to deal with such people and such situations much better than you once...
Australia Day – God creating a new nation from what is discarded
What does it mean to be Australian? In the Vietnamese boat people era, a young teacher at a Perth school split her kids up for a soccer match. One of the boys said, “Hey, Miss, do you think it’s a good idea for all us Aussies to be on one side and all the Viets on...
Epiphany 2 B
This year is mainly from the Gospel of Mark, but in a 3 year cycle of gospel reading, with 4 gospels readings from John get inserted, as we have today. On Christmas Day we went for the big view, as read the start of the Gospel of John. In the beginning was the Word,...
Christmas Eve Unexpected
It’s been an at-home year in ways none of us planned for, none of us could possibly have senarioed beforehand. In many ways it parallels the birth of Jesus. Think of it from Mary’s perspective. The unexpected but welcomed pregnancy – her life, and ours forever...
An abundant God
End times, confusing times, difficult times. This has been a difficult year in ways we have never seen before with a global pandemic, and schools, families, businesses and church having to do things very differently. We are not the first Christians who have had to...
Sheep and goats
Final Sunday of Church Year 2020 Matthew 25:31–46 I’m going to get myself in a tangle over the words ‘eternal punishment’, I’ll get through that, in faith, we will reflect on where Jesus is found and how that is life-changing for us; and then we will finish up with a...
Are you a weed?
Are you a weed or wheat? That’s a strange question isn’t it. But that is the question our gospel lesson is asking each of us. Are we weeds or are we wheat? Our gospel reading is about the difference between weeds and wheat in a field. Jesus tells a parable about...
