Sermons
Archives for September 2021
Date Based Archive: September 2024
Year A – Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost – An unpayable debt
17 September 2023
If you have a credit card you probably try your hardest to pay it off in full or at least pay as much as you can to limit the amount… Read more
Year A – Creation Sunday – Creative justice
10 September 2023
I was rather surprised when I read our Old Testament reading from Amos. Surprised because Israel were being reprimanded for doing what God has supposedly commanded Israel to do: Observe… Read more
Year A – Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Sliding Doors
3 September 2023
There was an interesting movie from 1998 called Sliding Doors. It had 2 scenarios facing a woman on her way home from work. Both scenarios have her rushing to catch… Read more
Year C – Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost – reversal of fortunes
25 September 2022
There is the old saying that there are 2 things certain in life – death and taxes. In our Gospel reading one of those is certainly true – death. Jesus… Read more
Year C – Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Our mediator with God
18 September 2022
We have a new King – King Charles the third. And no doubt most preachers will be focusing on this and Paul’s encouragement to pray for our leaders in order… Read more
Year C – Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost – God’s mission
11 September 2022
The big word in churches is Mission. But it’s a word that can be easily misunderstood. Our parish is undergoing a review at present that we are calling “cultivating a… Read more
Year C – Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Counting the cost
4 September 2022
The news keeps getting grimmer and grimmer when it comes to cost of living. Petrol, groceries, energy costs, mortgages. People are needing to reassess their living expenses to work out… Read more
Year B – Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Moving forward
26 September 2021
Someone once commented to me that they were surprised that we don’t see more one eyed, one armed Christians hobbling along on peg legs. I looked at them puzzingly to… Read more
Year B – Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost – Being the best God has made us to be
19 September 2021
Tomorrow night, one AFL player will be crowned the best and fairest player of the year – the highest individual accolade awarded in Australian Rules Football. Apart from 2017 I could… Read more
Year B – Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost – A very heavy Cross
12 September 2021
Children love to hear fairy-tales – I think we can still call them that. Most fairy-tales usually start and end the same way – The beginning – Once upon a… Read more
Year B – Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost – Keep praying – it’s your right.
5 September 2021
Whenever I read this Gospel reading it really speaks to me. Not the healing side of it but the geographical reach of Jesus into Tyre and Sidon which were Gentile… Read more
Year A – 17th Sunday after Pentecost –
27 September 2020
How are you feeling after 8 weeks of stage 4 lockdowns? How are you feeling after 6 months of restrictions on what some call basic human liberties and rights? Do… Read more
Year A – 16th Sunday after Pentecost – A generous God
20 September 2020
Have you ever had that stumper of a question put to you? How can a loving God send people to Hell? How can a loving God send people to Hell?… Read more
Year A – 15th Sunday after Pentecost – A Second Chance
13 September 2020
For some weeks now the questions have been asked. Whose fault is it that we are still in lockdown while the rest of the country has opened up? Whose fault… Read more
Year A – 14th Sunday after Pentecost – Peace through reconciliation
6 September 2020
Today’s Gospel reading has probably the most important teaching of Jesus or anyone in the Bible. And the reason it is so important is that it goes to the heart… Read more
Year C-16th Sunday after Pentecost-Reversal of Fortunes
29 September 2019
Earlier this year I was sitting in Swan Street Richmond waiting for a friend on our way to watch the football. While I was waiting a young man came up… Read more
Year C 15th Sunday after Pentecost – One mediator
22 September 2019
I listened to an interview with Australian swimmer Susie O’Niell. She was affectionately known as Madam Butterfly as she dominated the pool with her butterfly swim style. Leading up to… Read more
Year C: 14th Sunday after Pentecost – Lost and found
15 September 2019
I read an interesting article a while ago about parents who forget their child in the back seat of their car and go off shopping or come home and forget… Read more
Year C 13th Sunday after Pentecost – Moulded by God
8 September 2019
With Father’s Day last week no doubt many fathers received home-made gifts from their children. Whether it was macaroni glued to paper with some sparkles on it or maybe something… Read more
Year C 12th Sunday after Pentecost – The best seat in the house
1 September 2019
We probably don’t realise how much status is held by seating. The AFL finals begin this week and already there has been outrage over seating. Geelong wants a home final… Read more
No line in the sand
9 September 2018
Once again Melbourne is gripped in racial tensions after a violent brawl in Collingwood in the early hours of last week. The racial profiling identified the main perpetrators as African… Read more
Is God Unfair?
24 September 2017
Sometimes life just isn’t fair? It’s one of the hard realities we learn early on. You can learn it in kindergarten when that child won’t share with you. You can… Read more
Forgive us our sins
17 September 2017
On the first Tuesday of every month many Australians nervously await the announcement from the Reserve Bank regarding what they are doing about interest rates. Our nation’s debt is so… Read more
Christian Conflict Resolution
10 September 2017
Jesus deals with a very sensitive topic today – the topic of conflict within the church. Conflict doesn’t have to be a negative experience in the church or in any… Read more
FATHER’S DAY AND THE GIFT OF OUR FATHERS
4 September 2017
Today is Father’s Day, and given that fathers and fatherhood are in crisis in our modern western culture today, I thought I’d go “off script” so to speak, and talk… Read more
Reversal of fortunes
25 September 2016
Once again we have a story that seems to be about money. One could easily be led to believe from this parable that the poor go to heaven and the… Read more
Pentecost 18
18 September 2016
One cannot help but call the manager in our parable today a rogue. Firstly he has mismanaged his master’s accounts. How, we don’t know. But then, when his mismanagement is… Read more
Even worst of sinners are forgiven
11 September 2016
September 11 always brings back haunting memories of the day we woke to hear about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Centre. It’s been 15 years since it happened… Read more
A love hate relationship
4 September 2016
Have you ever been caught out by an unexpected cost? Have you ever bought a cheap printer for your computer only to find that when the ink runs out the… Read more