Sermons
Archives for January 2017
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Year B – Fourth Sunday After Epiphany – A new authority
28 January 2024
Authority. It’s a word that is supposed to bring us comfort and assurance. But in a world with increasing insecurity, authority can seem to be an invasion of our privacy… Read more
Year C – Fourth Sunday After Epiphany – God’s “unfair” love
30 January 2022
It was supposed to be a homecoming welcome when Jesus arrives at Nazareth, his home town. Local boy makes good. We get very excited and proud when one of our… Read more
Year C – Third Sunday After Epiphany – Mission Statements
23 January 2022
Mission statements are used by Churches to help them to define who they are. Both of our congregations have a mission statement to which we continue to check ourselves against… Read more
Year B – 4th Sunday after Epiphany – Head to heart knowledge
31 January 2021
Marks’s Gospel is an interesting account of the life of Jesus. It doesn’t have the sweet recording of Jesus birth – shepherds, manger, wise men coming to visit. No, here… Read more
Year B – Epiphany 3 – The Good News of repentance
24 January 2021
Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night to a house or car alarm going off? What’s your first response? If it’s like mine, it’s usually not… Read more
Year B – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany – Come and see Jesus
13 January 2021
This is my first week back for 2021 so firstly I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. In my break I have tried to contemplate what… Read more
Year A – 3rd Sunday after Epiphany – New beginnings (Lay Reading)
26 January 2020
Today is January 26th and we are just over three weeks into 2020. Did you make any resolutions this year? If you did, how are they holding up? New Year’s… Read more
Year A – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany – Receiving the call from Jesus (Lay Reading)
19 January 2020
Today’s theme that can be found in all four of our readings is the theme of being called. The readings from Isaiah and from Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians… Read more
Year A – The Baptism of Jesus – The First Step (Lay Reading)
12 January 2020
We don’t think about it much, but for most of us, one thing that brings us to church on Sunday is the fact that we are baptized. Some of us… Read more
Year A – The Epiphany – God’s Epiphany Mission to the Nations
5 January 2020
You often hear about difficulties growing up as a middle child. As a middle child myself I can affirm that at times it wasn’t easy. When my older brother bullied… Read more
Year C – 2nd Sunday after Epiphany – God the gift giver
20 January 2019
Well Christmas is well and truly over both officially and unofficially. It was over officially 2 weeks ago on Epiphany Sunday – the 12th day of Christmas. But I suspect… Read more
True Authority
28 January 2018
American Artist Andy Warhol once said: “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes”, It’s where we get the saying “15 minutes of fame”. Today it seems that… Read more
Our merciful God
21 January 2018
Today’s Old Testament reading only gives us part of the story of Jonah’s call. If we didn’t know the whole story of Jonah we might believe that Jonah is an… Read more
Speak Lord your servant is listening
14 January 2018
We often hear comments that we live in godless times. We have this image that our country was once considered a Christian country but we are slowly watching the census… Read more
Finding Jesus
7 January 2018
Christmas is well and truly over for most people. Most have taken down their Christmas trees and are finishing off leftover ham and mince pies. (Ringwood) Our Christmas Tree is… Read more
True Greatness from God
29 January 2017
The phrase which we heard over and over again during the American Presidential campaign by Donald Trump and in his inauguration speech was “make America great”. And he said that… Read more
An uneasy call
22 January 2017
230 years ago a fleet of 11 ships was sent from England to Australia to establish a penal colony for the sending of prisoners. On January 26th this week we… Read more
What will 2016 be remembered for?
1 January 2017
What will 2016 be remembered for? For many it will be one of the worst years of terrorist attacks. It’s estimated around 1500 have been killed and 3500 injured in… Read more