Author: alisha
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Becoming the Change
Jan 11, 2026Matthew 3:13-17 In times of fire, fear, and division, the Gospel does not offer easy fixes — it offers transformation. Between the Victorian bushfires, the escalating dehumanization of both Jews and Muslims fueled by political and public rhetoric, and the erosion of democracy in the so-called “land of the free,” it’s hard to…
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Something Out of Nothing
Jan 4, 2025 Isaiah 25:6-10aRevelation 21:1-6a We begin at a threshold — where Isaiah’s feast of rich food and wiped tears meets the ache and uncertainty of the present. Through scripture, memory, and the ordinary holiness of communion, imagination emerges not as escape but as resistance — the way God keeps making something out of…
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The Scandal of Christmas
Dec 25, 2025Luke 2:1-20 What if Christmas isn’t about escaping the world, but learning how to stay? This reflection explores a God who chooses fragile, finite flesh over power and prestige, and a peace that arrives not by force, but by presence. In a world marked by unpeace, Christmas invites us to remain and believe—with…
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Becoming Sanctuary
Dec 21, 2025Luke 1:26-56 In the wake of last week’s violence at Bondi, the story of Elizabeth and Mary calls us to pause, rather than rush to solutions. For it is often in the watching, in the waiting, in the quiet courage of simply being, that God’s work of deep and tender healing begins to…
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Holy Wild
Dec 7, 2025Matthew 3:1-12 Forget the Christmas cookies and cozy nostalgia—Advent summons us into the wilderness where God turns the world, and us, upside down. John the Baptist shows up wild-eyed, camel-clad, and unfiltered, calling us to a turning that actually changes us. If you’re feeling stuck, suffocated, or too comfortable, the wilderness may be…
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Awake My Soul
Nov 30, 2025Matthew 24:36-44 We live in a culture that tells us hope comes in a coca-cola coloured Santa Claus, sparkling lights, the perfect Christmas lunch, and, of course, an Australian Cricket win. Yet real hope breaks through in the humdrum, mundane, and ordinary of life. In our first week of Advent, we are called…
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A Meeting at the Margins
Nov 23, 2025Luke 23:33-43 In a world bent on seeing red, we’re invited to see the way God truly sees us — and I mean all of us — beloved and holy. On this Christ the King Sunday, true power is revealed not from a throne or a crown looking down, but from the cross. Here, Christ’s…
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Be Still
Nov 16, 2025Luke 21:5-19 What if the biggest threat in our modern world was not polarizing politics, waging wars or the cost-of-living? What if it was in the inability to be still? Through stories of remembrance, the rubble of Luke’s world, and the wisdom of the mystics, we discover the still point where God and…
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The Fire of Freedom
Nov 9, 2025Luke 20:27-40 What if resurrection isn’t just about life after death, but about liberation from everything that keeps us bound — now and forever? Luke 20 invites us to see resurrection not as a theory to defend, but as a fire to live by — the same flame that burned before Moses and…
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Empty Hands, Full Hearts
July 6, 2025Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 In a world where peace is often twisted by power, consumerism, and fear, Jesus calls us to a radically different kind of peace—one that is received, shared, and disruptive. Sent out like the 72, we enter lives with empty hands, listening hearts, and courage to witness the inherent dignity and…
by Rev Alisha 