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Hosea 11 Across the confused and vicious years of political upheaval and conquest, across the terrain of tyranny, anarchy and the abandonment of the ways of sacred law and all things just and holy, Hosea brings a very special message of God. And it is simply and most profoundly a message of love.    When Israel was Read more…

Opposite of elimination – Genesis 18: 20-32 I chose this morning’s reading through a process of elimination. If you’re familiar with the lectionary, the three year cycle that moves through Scripture and the church year and unites us with Christians around the world, thinking and reflecting on these same passages, Read more…

Due to technical issues there is no audio recording available this week. Feeling God’s pleasure – Genesis 1:24-27,31 & Luke 10:38-42 If you were asked to say – in a word or a short phrase – one thing that really matters to you, one thing you would like to be Read more…

Lawyers – Luke 10:25-37; Deuteronomy 6:1-9 Which of the people in our well-known and widely known gospel reading this morning do you identify with most? Is it the Samaritan? I think we’d all love to be the Samaritan, wouldn’t we? To think that in any given situation, we would be Read more…

Luke 9:51-62 Jesus has come from the dizzy heights of the mountain where he was transfigured before the very eyes of Peter James and John.   It was the next day, and there are, in Luke’s story, some incidents that accentuate the deep nature of the messianic mission of Jesus and Read more…

Exodus 35:4-5(a), 20-29, 2 Cor 9:6-14 There’s an old preacher’s joke (I am sure you have heard it before) about a minister who gets to his little church one bitterly cold Sunday morning and finds no one there except one old farmer. So, he suggests, considering the low turnout, that Read more…

Luke 14:1,14; Hebrews 13:1-16 This might be a dangerous question – but what is the longest church service you have ever attended? It could have been here at Canberra Baptist. I seem to remember our anniversary service went for a good while! Or was it elsewhere? A few years ago, Read more…

ACTS 2:1-36 Every life that is born yearns for life.  When a child is born their senses awaken, the child opens its eyes and sees light, it begins to breathe, and feels the air, it cries and hears sounds.  It lies beside its mother or father and feels the warmth Read more…

(no audio available this week) Psalm 97, Acts 16:16-34 Sometimes stories grow a little in the telling. For instance, if Aron was to tell you about the first time I drove the hire car in Scotland – a manual and I usually drive an automatic – the skidding and the Read more…