Jan2025
The Abundance of Grace in Everyday Life
Dear Friends, We are journeying through the Epiphany season once again, and during Epiphany the sequence of gospel readings that are set down for our worship remind me of a… Read more
Dec2024
The Grottiness, Glory, and Grace of Christmas
In the church, the season leading up to Christmas is Advent. But in the world of marketing, it’s a sales opportunity. Advertising catalogues and Netflix movie suggestions bombard us with… Read more
Nov2024
The Narrow Door
“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.” (Luke 13:24) Some years ago, I took… Read more
Oct2024
God’s Word is Our Great Heritage
It’s great to celebrate the heritage of the church. This week we celebrate the festival of the Reformation. Last weekend I attended the 100th anniversary of the dedication of Zion… Read more
Sep2024
Unity: Elusive but a Blessing
Lately I’ve been thinking quite a lot about the matter of unity. The theme for our upcoming General Convention of Synod, “The Gift of God – It’s Grace that Unites… Read more
Aug2024
Wanted – Faithful Stewards
A recent Lectionary Reading (Sunday 30th June 2024) was Paul’s letter in 2 Corinthians chapter 8, verses 7-15. In verse 9, Paul reminds us of the grace of our Lord… Read more
Jun2024
Do we not care that they are perishing?
But [Jesus] was in the stern, asleep on a cushion. And they woke him and said to him, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” Mark 4:38 The… Read more
May2024
God’s Sustaining Power
The epistle reading for this coming Sunday (Pentecost 2, Year B) is from St. Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians. This is a follow-up letter from Paul, written shortly after… Read more
Mar2024
The ‘dead man’s cross and the living man’s empty tomb’
‘The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God’ (1 Cor 1:18). Author Paul… Read more
Feb2024
‘Our help comes from the Lord’
Most of us are aware of the work that is being done around a ‘way forward’ for our church leading up to the LCANZ General Convention in October this year…. Read more