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Advent Three - Making ourselves available to Joy
At last – something anticipating Christmas Joy! Indeed we are invited to prepare ourselves for eternal joy and gladness starting now...

Reverend Sue
Dec 7, 20224 min read


Advent Two - Preparing for the Coming of God
Hopeful images of peace and tumultuous descriptions of disturbance, the longed for reign of God and yet our unreadiness for a life of...

Reverend Sue
Nov 30, 20225 min read


Advent One - Awaken
Wake up. Get up. Clothe yourself in Christ. The day is near. (Advent One. Matthew 24:36-44; Isaiah 2:1-5; Psalm 122; and Romans...

Reverend Sue
Nov 23, 20225 min read


Christ the King
What do we mean when we as church proclaim Jesus as Christ the King? (Luke 23:33-43; Jeremiah 23:1-6; Song of Zechariah; and Colossians...

Reverend Sue
Nov 16, 20224 min read


All Saints
All Saints is that gift of a festival in which we can remember the saints of our tradition and give thanks for their continuing witness...

Reverend Sue
Nov 1, 20224 min read


Seeking the One who is Seeking Us
The story of Zacchaeus shimmying up a tree to better see Jesus and then having Jesus invite himself to a long lunch (Luke 19:1-10. Twenty...

Reverend Sue
Oct 26, 20225 min read


Stripping Away the Layers of Resistance
One way of understanding the Christian spiritual growth journey is the unending stripping away of the layers of resistance, ego...

Reverend Sue
Oct 19, 20225 min read


Persistence as Spiritual Practice
Most of us have been taught that the parable about the unjust judge and the persevering widow (Luke 18:1-14, Nineteenth Sunday after...

Reverend Sue
Oct 12, 20224 min read


Belonging
Like many of us I prefer the sayings of Jesus that are all about love and peace and joy, all about acceptance and inclusion. I like...

Reverend Sue
Aug 31, 20226 min read


Recognizing the Divine in the Other
Our God given dignity makes us all equal in the eyes of God no matter what social order we may seek to enforce. Whenever we decide on who...

Reverend Sue
Aug 24, 20224 min read


To pluck up and to plant
The prophetic voices of Jeremiah, Isaiah and Jesus continue to disturb and overturn what we think we know. (RCL Jeremiah 1:4-10; Psalm...

Reverend Sue
Aug 17, 20226 min read


Fire as part of the Process
I prefer my gospel to be all about the good news of God’s love – expansive, inclusive, eternal and regenerative love. But sometimes to...

Reverend Sue
Aug 10, 20225 min read
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