Feb 22, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16, Psalm 22:23-31, Romans 4:13-25 Mark 8:31-38 or Mark 9:2-9 Choosing names for our children is a fascinating exercise connecting them with their past and with our hopes for their future. For the Hebrews names spoke of the character of the one...
Feb 15, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
The Genesis reading outlines the covenant of God with Noah. It is one of a number of covenants, which share some similarities with treaties of the time, recorded in the Bible. This covenant is important in its breadth to all living things, “…between me and the...
Feb 8, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
In the transfiguration we travel from ordinary life, up an ordinary mountain, through an extraordinary experience, and back down the ordinary mountain to an ordinary life tinged with the colour of death yet suffused with the possibility of something beyond ordinary....
Feb 8, 2024 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Some people find it worth the effort to pick over the mullock heaps of gem mines for the occasional rewarding find; but the dream is always of the rich reef. Familiar Bible passages, re-read, often yield previously missed gems. Both Gospel passages for this day are...
Dec 19, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Lectionary Readings 2 Samuel 7: 1-11, 16, Luke 1: 39-55, Romans 16: 25-27 Take a moment to get comfortable, close your eyes and take some deep breaths. Imagine a garden full of life. There are brightly coloured flowers, healthy bushes, a vegie patch, green grass and...
Dec 14, 2023 | EXPLORING THE BIBLE, NEWS
Lectionary Readings Isaiah 61: 1-4, 8-11, Psalm 126, Luke 1:1-38 Take a moment to get comfortable, close your eyes, and take some deep breaths. Imagine a garden ready to be transformed. The soil is full of nutrients, the weeds have been pulled out, and the plans and...
