Soul Feast: Love and Justice

Share God’s love and justice/Soul Feast – Amos 5:18-24 & Luke 10:38-42 As a tool for understanding the world around us, human beings are drawn to dichotomies– dividing things into two different or opposing parts; good and evil, the body and the soul, civilised and uncivilised, South Canberra and North Read more…

Soul Feast: Hospitality

10 February 2019 Hospitality … It is something that we do, it is something anchored in the Gospel story, it is a strong thread in the Judeo-Christian tradition in terms of table fellowship, it is welcoming, it is as Marjorie Thompson in ‘Soul Feast’ describes receiving another from the heart, Read more…

Streams of Joy

  Nehemiah 8:1-10, Psalm 98 Both of our readings this morning speak about joy. Psalm 98 instructs us to rejoice – to be joyful – with the whole of creation; the sea and all that fills it, the world and all who live in it! And our Nehemiah reading is Read more…

Sending out the invitation

Sending out the invitation – 20 January 2019 John 2:1-12, Psalm 36:5-10   This week I have been doing some preparation for the church’s 90th anniversary. You’re all invited by the way! Keep the 23 and 24th February clear! There are a few key things you need if you’re organising Read more…

Baptism of Jesus

13 January 2019 Today we’re going to look at an event that made it into all four Gospels such was its importance and inspiration: – the baptism of Jesus.  As the Old Testament reading that marries with this story rallies the faithful to understand to whom they belong with the Read more…

Simeon and Anna

30 December 2018 So Christmas is over.  The banners remain and memories of the big day and its build up lingers like smoke from the Advent candles now blown out.  We have remembered the story of the birth of Jesus.  And today Luke takes us into the Temple, where Jesus Read more…

Memory Makers

25 December 2018 – Christmas Day A few years ago, I came across a list of six of the best Christmas short stories, and on it was Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory. Does anyone know it? Truman Capote is better known as the author of Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958) and Read more…