From Chris Rushton – Guest preacher ‘Sell your possessions, and give alms.’ + May I speak in the name of The Father, Son and Holy Spirit, Amen. One of the most common captions to jokes that amuses me is ‘more tea vicar?’ and it is an often used jokey phrase used on me – usually...
Author: Ada Wong Nagata. First preached- July 31.2016 Right now in the world there is lots of tension on the issues of income and wealth inequality. I am not an economist or social scientist so I will not get into these complicated aspects. However, This Sunday’s scriptures do offer us some reflection from a...
Readings: Isaiah 66. 10-14; Gal 6. 1-6, 7-16; Luke 10. 1-11, 16-20 Theme: ‘I watched Satan fall like lightening from heaven’ How should we understand this enigmatic phrase? What are the scriptures inviting us to contemplate in this mysterious statement of Jesus? To understand just what Jesus is teaching us here it is...
By Katerina Katsarka Whitley Ritual is essential in life. National, religious or familial, rituals offer us the comfort of repetition and familiarity as they lend beauty to occurrences that otherwise might be considered mundane. Observe a little child who asks for the same story night after night – this is her ritual – or...
I was talking with Hans, one-time professor of English Literature about words and their limitations in expressing what we feel. Looking through the Church Times at the jobs available. There one appears. I say no way, I’m retiring. And then read the reading from Isaiah for Sunday. The last king of Judah that had any...
