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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...

Reverend Sue
Nov 8, 20235 min read


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...

Reverend Sue
Nov 1, 20235 min read


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...

Reverend Sue
Oct 25, 20235 min read


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...

Reverend Sue
Oct 18, 20235 min read


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....

Reverend Sue
Oct 11, 20235 min read


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] ...

Reverend Sue
Oct 4, 20234 min read


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...

Reverend Sue
Sep 27, 20234 min read


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...

Reverend Sue
Sep 20, 20235 min read


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;...

Reverend Sue
Sep 13, 20235 min read


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...

Reverend Sue
Sep 6, 20235 min read


How does taking up a cross lead to life?
At the centre of our beliefs is the suffering and death of Jesus expressed in resurrection and his call that we too take up our cross and...

Reverend Sue
Aug 30, 20235 min read


To be transformed
“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God –...

Reverend Sue
Aug 23, 20234 min read
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