Sermons

It was very moving to watch the Bondi gathering on Sunday night, and hear the courage, the distress, and the very careful message to Australians that the concerns and experiences of the Jewish people here have not been listened to since October 2023. There was the...

Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. Matthew 24:42 Here we are, alive, and maybe not always so well. It can be very hard, being there for the long haul. How do we keep practising our Christian faith, apart from the obvious...

Luke 14:13-14 But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous. Hospitality is about being welcomed as you are. It’s about...

Sr Lucy Tierney, author of Inner Invitations 2023, has been a great blessing to me over the last 25 years.  At a recent training day I attended on-line, she repeated the blessings of her daily practice of 2 + 5. Two minutes in the morning. How am I? This is simply...

Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. Hebrews 12:1-2. Jesus has done the long race of life before us. Through the shame of the cross, he has turned everything upside down. In losing, we...

Be dressed ready for service and keep your lamps burning, like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him. It will be good for those servants whose master finds them...

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Ecclesiastes 2:14 It’s fascinating that this book is part of our sacred scripture. It’s the bored dissatisfaction of a rich, successful king who has a...

Prayer – as natural as breathing. We are God’s children, so talking with God and being with God is just the way we live. Do you find that you naturally are talking to God about some things, or asking for help at times during the day? Jesus is a prayer word, not a...

At the big service on Sunday (baptisms, first communions, lots of visiting families with younger children) we had a run-away plant that wanted to go and have lots of wonderful experiences, rather than be stuck in the same, boring ground. Of course the children could...