MESSAGE: Seventh Sunday After Epiphany – C – 20 February 2022 THEMES: Resurrection Living While it may not seem like it, the theme running through the Lectionary this week could be viewed as ‘resurrection living.’ The Corinthians reading actually speaks of resurrection, while the others speak of living in ways that bring life both to...
The central theme of all of the readings this week is the contrast between those who follow God’s ways and those who don’t. How we choose to live has consequences. We have been given, in the Scriptures and in Christ’s example, a picture of the kind of life that brings about greater wholeness and joy...
After last week, in which the wonderful “yes” of God was explored alongside the challenging “no”, the Lectionary now challenges us to decide what to do with God’s invitational and confrontational grace. In all of this week’s readings there are two strong themes that emerge. The first is that God calls women and men to...
The two major themes in this week’s reading stand out in clear relief: Firstly, God’s grace is not always a comfortable and gentle thing to experience. Integral to God’s grace is the work of justice which distresses the comfortable and self-assured (the “no”) even as it comforts the distressed (the “yes”). Jeremiah is told that...
MESSAGE: Third Sunday After Epiphany – C – 23 January 2022 THEMES: Epiphany is a time where we hear/see of Jesus being revealed. There is the word of God, revealed in creation and through the book of the law. There is the mission of Christ proclaimed in his reading of the scroll from Isaiah. And...
MESSAGE: Second Sunday After Epiphany – C – 16 January 2022 THEMES: Epiphany is a time where we hear of Jesus being revealed. The Wedding in Cana: a time of celebration. Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee, and revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. Isaiah’s prayer...
MESSAGE: Baptism of our Lord – C – 9 January 2022 THEMES: Baptism, empowered with the Holy Spirit! The first Sunday after Epiphany always focuses on the baptism of Jesus. This year Luke’s version of this story is the main reading. You might notice that Luke gives a very thin description of the events –...
Pursuit Leads to Growth This week we have been celebrating the incarnation – God becoming human. It’s one thing to proclaim that God has been embodied in human flesh, but it’s a completely different thing to understand what that means for us today. If the incarnation is nothing more than an interesting quirk of history,...
THEMES: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love = Jesus The Christmas story is such a familiar one right? We could tell it off by heart. The Christmas Carols tell the story – the Christmas story of Jesus! God’s gift to the world. Christmas is: God’s fulfillment of His promises. Glory to God in the Highest heaven and...
Rev Tania writes: The last week of Advent returns us to the beginning of John’s story, as Mary, pregnant with Jesus, visits Elizabeth, and John leaps within his mother’s womb. Mary’s song is, of course, one of the highlights of the birth narratives, and carries a powerful justice-proclaiming message. In the waiting of Advent, it...
