MESSAGE – Sixth Sunday After Pentecost – C – 17 July 2022
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MESSAGE – Sixth Sunday After Pentecost – C – 17 July 2022

Rev Tania writes: This week it’s all about listening – to God’s word – and to living it out in compassion, integrity, and justice – which requires listening to others. This can be harder than it sounds with all the noise that bombards us each day. That’s why the discipline of worship is so important....

MESSAGE: Fifth Sunday After Pentecost – C – 10 July 2022
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MESSAGE: Fifth Sunday After Pentecost – C – 10 July 2022

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – compassion, service and sacrifice In the readings this week we find the powerful metaphor in Amos of God’s plumb line – the measure of God’s people and their faithfulness to God’s purposes. Then, alongside this, the Gospel places the parable of the Good Samaritan – clearly the plumb line measures...

MESSAGE: Fourth Sunday After Pentecost – C – 3 July 2022
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MESSAGE: Fourth Sunday After Pentecost – C – 3 July 2022

MESSAGE: Fourth Sunday after Pentecost 3 July 2022   THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – The Kingdom of God has come near to you. The nearness is embodied in the hospitable moments of community – in the intimacy of community.   Nearness          All the readings this week speak of God working in very natural and...

MESSAGE – Third Sunday After Pentecost – C – 26 June 2022
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MESSAGE – Third Sunday After Pentecost – C – 26 June 2022

Rev Tania writes: The journey into living the values of God’s Reign continues. In the last few weeks we have recognised our need for forgiveness and God’s resources, and we have confronted the ways that evil works in our world. It is not enough to resist evil. It is not enough to not do what is...

MESSAGE –  Second Sunday After Pentecost  – C  –  19 June 2022
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MESSAGE – Second Sunday After Pentecost – C – 19 June 2022

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – Christ’s gifts of healing, hope and wholeness God’s Story – God’s design for our lives Our Story – living into God’s design for our lives. Now we are prepared for the second half of the year – Green Season/the “Our Story” part which happens in Ordinary Time in the weeks...

MESSAGE – Seventh Sunday in Easter – C – 29 May 2022
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MESSAGE – Seventh Sunday in Easter – C – 29 May 2022

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – God’s invitation God invites us to: To know God To bear God’s justice To enter God’s truth To enter God’s unity The readings this week reveals the simple theme of invitation. In Acts, Paul and Silas are given a unique opportunity to invite a jailer into Christ’s life. In the...

MESSAGE – Sixth Sunday in Easter – C – 22 May 2022
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MESSAGE – Sixth Sunday in Easter – C – 22 May 2022

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK An extension of the commandment to LOVE ONE ANOTHER. Love is what unites believers with the Lord together with their faith. JOHN 14:23-29: Love is what unites believers with the Lord together with their faith. The Father in his grace comes to dwell in such a believer who in turn keeps...

MESSAGE – Fifth Sunday in Easter – C – 15 May 2022
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MESSAGE – Fifth Sunday in Easter – C – 15 May 2022

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK – New Commandment – Love What defines a “Christian” for you? What are the most important qualities that reflect true faith in Jesus? Is it believing that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible Word of God? Is it maintaining complete and absolute sexual purity? Is it refraining from using bad language?...