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Jesus cleanses the temple
Three things today: we recognise and act on catastrophes, we don’t recognise and act on the things that change slowly. Prophetic actions. Wait and see. Our brains are wired to recognise and deal with catastrophes, better than with slow, incremental change. Something...
Lent 2 Year B Mark 8:31-38
Banias - a turning point for Jesus As a 26 year old, to my surprise (but it was after 21 years of non-stop formal education) I took the year off from my pastoral studies, picked fruit to earn enough money, then spent 6 months in Europe including 7 weeks in Israel. The...
Transfiguration Sunday – power for the long haul.
Metamorphosis – that is the Greek word that is translated as transfiguration. Change. Let’s explore both transfiguration and metamorphosis. When Leanne was putting together the service order and powerpoint slides (as she does each week) she had a quick question about...
Ash Wednesday.
Remember that you are dust, and to dust you will return. Lent is the 40 day period set apart by Christians to remember that Jesus resolutely chose to go to Jerusalem and gave up his life willingly on the cross. It made him look like a total loser. Those who were the...
First Sunday of Lent. Looking for the God patterns of growth.
If you look at the cross section of a tree, you can see the rings of growth, and if you know what you are looking for, you can tell when the tree had good growing seasons or drought. Think of the teams you have been part of at work or sport. One of the models of team...
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,...
