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Yr C ~ Easter 3 ~ Acts 11:1-18 Last week we looked at Saul’s amazing conversion experience and noted that it was the faithful Ananias at prayer who was the catalyst for Saul becoming Paul. Ananias, a Christian that most…
Yr C ~ Easter 2 ~ Acts 9:1-20 If you feel far from God, or if you’ve turned your back on blessings, or if you’re an atheist, or a radical agnostic, or just plain don’t really know what to make…
Easter Sunday ~ John 20:1-18 We’ve been wondering our way through Lent this year, and wondering our way through Holy Week, and now we’ve arrived at the big one – Easter Sunday – I bet you’re wondering what I’m going…
Good Friday ~ John 18:1-19:42 There are so many pieces to this story that it’s hard to know where to begin. Every year we find ourselves lost in the strangeness of these events, and yet compelled to rehearse them again…
Yr A ~ Palm ~ John 12:12-16 So here we are again. Palm Sunday. A significant day in the rhythm of the church year that many of us have been marking for years, decades even. Some of us have experienced…
Yr B ~ Lent 5 ~ John 12:20–33 Revelation 21:1-5 Today I’m hoping to invite you to wonder about a rhythm so profound that even Jesus couldn’t find the perfect metaphor to teach it, and for two thousand years people…
Yr B ~ Lent 4 ~ John 2:13-22 Gentle Jesus, meek and mild…goes to the Temple in Jerusalem and doesn’t like what he sees – people selling animals for sacrifice at a profit, money-changers skimming off the top of the…
Yr B ~ Lent 3 ~ Ecclesiastes 11:1-10 The book of Ecclesiastes, if it’s thought of at all, tends to get a really bad rap. It seems depressing, dreary, and gloomy. It’s the Eeyore of the bible! The problem is…
Lent 2 ~ Proverbs 1:1-7 Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. [3:5]Train up a child in the way they should go: and when they are old, they will not depart from…
Lent 1 ~ Psalm 19 Our Lenten journey this year will be a little different. We’re going to be exploring the theme of ‘wonder’ instead of the usual themes of Lent. Oh, we’ll mix in some good, thoughtful, introspective stuff,…