3 December 2023   Advent 1       Hope in Troubled Times

3 December 2023 Advent 1 Hope in Troubled Times

Isaiah 64: 1-9, Psalm 80: 1-7, 17-19, 1 Corinthians 1: 3-9, Mark 13: 24-37 During this season of ADVENT, we will use the metaphor of growing a garden to prepare our hearts, souls, and minds for the birth of Jesus. Imagine a garden that no-one has looked after for a...
19 November 2023  Pentecost 25    Matthew 25: 14-30

19 November 2023 Pentecost 25 Matthew 25: 14-30

This parable is about security and risk. It’s about how we use what God has given us, and it confronts me as I read it. It is about fear and how we let it control our lives – or not. God is a great risk-taker. He gave himself to this world in the form of Jesus...
12 November 2023    Pentecost 24    Matthew 25: 1-13

12 November 2023 Pentecost 24 Matthew 25: 1-13

The story of the ten bridesmaids is a story of anticipation and readiness which encourages us to be awake and prepared for the return of Jesus “because you do not know the day or the hour”. It was addressed to the disciples in private as they sat with him...
5 November 2023   Pentecost 23  Matthew 23:1-12

5 November 2023 Pentecost 23 Matthew 23:1-12

We are tempted to gloss over the first words of Jesus in this significant part of Matthew’s Gospel: “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the Scriptures. So practice and obey whatever they say to you, but...