Advent One - Preparing for a New Creation
What a way to begin a new year with images of endings and destruction! This is not the way most of us celebrate the calendar new year....
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Reverend Sue
- Nov 21
- 3 min
The Reign of Christ
At this, and many disturbing moments in human and personal history, many of us long for Jesus the Christ to come down and reign over our...
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Reverend Sue
- Nov 7
- 5 min
Oil for our Lamps
“Be awake therefore as you do not know the hour or the day.” (Matthew 25:1-13. Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 27 [32]) It...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 31
- 5 min
All are God's Children
“They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat; for the lamb at the centre of the...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 24
- 5 min
The Two Great Commandments
The two great commandments are a summary of the whole law and the goal of our striving and growing; it is the central tenant of the...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 17
- 5 min
What belongs to God?
This week we have one of those moments I wish I’d witnessed in person – this ancient text, many times translated, still sings and stings...
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 10
- 5 min
The Wedding Banquet
We come to the troubling images and themes in the parable of the wedding banquet (Matthew 21:1-14. Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost....
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Reverend Sue
- Oct 3
- 4 min
A Song for the Beloved Vineyard
This week we have a love song for a vineyard and another parable about a vineyard (Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 22 [27] ...
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Reverend Sue
- Sep 26
- 4 min
Finding our way towards Yes
This parable challenges us to honestly acknowledge the “No” that reflects our tiredness, our fearfulness, our resistance to God’s world...
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Reverend Sue
- Sep 19
- 5 min
The Vineyard
This is one of those parables which dis-quietens many of us. (Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 17 [25] Matthew 20:1-16.) We...
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Reverend Sue
- Sep 12
- 5 min
Forgiveness and Forgiving
Forgiveness is at the centre of what it means to be in Christian community: acknowledging our need of forgiveness by God and others;...
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Reverend Sue
- Sep 5
- 5 min
Being the Community of Christ
This week’s Scripture (Matthew 18 in general and 10-20 in particular. Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. Proper 18[23]) is all about what...
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