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What have we gained by accepting God’s invitation to the banquet? What have we lost? Are we healed, strengthen, given courage, inspired, challenged by declining God’s invitation? We still maintain that the demands of living in today’s “day and age” determine our responses. Isn’t it wonderful that God does not use excuses to exclude us...

Last week we heard of the living Water of God that flows into every nook and cranny, this week the central image is the Law, and on how some are excluded from God’s life because they have allowed the Law to become stagnant, repressive and legalistic. In the Exodus reading, the Moses journey continues, with...

MESSAGE – Sunday 27th September 2020 17th Sunday after Pentecost Context: What are these things? He had just entered Jerusalem and ‘cleansed the Temple.’ Turning over the tables of the money changers Healed the blind and the lame. Children shouting “Hosanna to the Son of David” Chief priests and legal experts were angered, “Do you...

This week we will be asked to listen to the tough, but life-giving Gospel message of forgiveness. In a world of conflict, terrorism, and serious inequalities the idea of forgiveness can sound naive. But without forgiveness, we doom ourselves to repeating cycles of violence, division and scapegoating of one another. The parable of the unforgiving...

Remember, Restore, Renew God’s Covenant in community A vivid memory from childhood television viewing is the scene that always terrified me during my family’s annual viewing of the classic movie, “The Ten Commandments”: the Angel of Death passing over Egypt, killing every firstborn, bringing tragedy to every Egyptian household, including Pharaoh himself, but leaving the...

What does God’s call mean for us? What can we expect when we receive God’s call? These are the questions at the heart of this week’s Lectionary, and they flow beautifully out of last week’s challenge. The clear progression is from Moses’ own personal salvation (last week) to his call to go back and save...

Rev Tania writes: Following on from last week’s theme, this week offers us a new encounter with God’s salvation. “Salvation” is a word that is thrown around a lot in churches, and also in the work of evangelism. The readings this week encourage us to revisit this word, to delve deeper into its meaning and...

Matthew 15, 21-28/ Psalm 133, Romans 11, 13-32 Friends, On Friday evening, I re-watched the film Invictus. Taking its title from the poem by the same name by William Ernest Henley, the film tells the impassioned story of newly-elected President Nelson Mandela, as he guides his closest entourage, the national rugby team and, ultimately the...