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The ‘Good’ in Good Friday
May 11, 2025Revelation 7:9-17 As a people and a culture, we’re often more at ease with Good Friday than Easter Sunday — so much so that we’ve forgotten what’s good about it in the first place: the resurrection. An event Western Christianity has spent so much energy trying to prove that it’s forgotten its true power —…
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The Paradox of Peace
April 13, 2025Luke 19:28-40 In a time that feels like the opposite of peace, where our news and social media feeds fill us with visions and stories of division, dissonance and devastation, we need the image, the truth and reality of Jesus’ non-triumphal entry more than ever. An entry symbolizing and embodying radical peace that…
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Offensive Love
March 30, 2025Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 A story we’ve probably heard too many times to count: the story of the Prodigal Son. And yet, have you ever noticed how the story doesn’t end? How we’re left on the edge of our seats wondering what the older brother will do? Ultimately the story of the Prodigal Son…
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The Liberation of Letting Go
March 9, 2025Luke 4:1-13 In the season of Lent we are invited to let go, to enter a kind of mini-death in order to embody and become true vessels of liberation. It’s the paradox of the cross we get to explore for 40 days and 40 nights, of entering the dark night of the soul,…
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Embodying Exodus
March 2, 2025Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a) The mystery of the Transfiguration has stooped theologians and biblical scholars alike with plenty of theories and theologies all around. But what if the Transfiguration wasn’t meant to be understood but something to be undergone? A shimmering of glory not just for Christ but for us?
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Bearing Fruit in Barren Times
Feb 16, 2025Jeremiah 17:5-10 In secular- Australia, we have often been shy about our faith… and for good reason. The atrocities we have come to learn about through colonization and the Royal Commission has meant many of us have kept the Gospel hidden. But good news can’t be hidden even by our worst human failings,…
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Caught-up in Christ
Feb 9, 2025Luke 5: 1-11 Too often in progressive churches we deny ourselves the feeling of the ecstatic – of what it might mean to follow Christ. Simon Peter shows us how letting ourselves be consumed by Christ’s beauty and abundance has the capacity to change everything.
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Called for the Life of the World
Feb 2, 2025Jeremiah 1:4-10 The misconception about ‘call’ is that it’s for the select few, the saints of our history, the prophets of our past or the preachers at our pulpits. But the fact is, we are all called. We are all born into this time and place with our unique gifts and graces for…
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Beauty will Save the World
Jan 19, 2025John 2:1-11 In a world full of chaos, war, and corruption, God reveals glory through the soft, unexpected, and beautiful—like Mary’s faith and Jesus’ first miracle at Cana. Beauty isn’t just decoration; it transforms hearts, reveals God’s presence, and invites us to participate in a world made new. So open your eyes… seek…
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Turn Around
Jan 12, 2025Isaiah 43:1-7 and Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 The New Year is not just a time to look towards the future, but also a time to turn around. Isaiah and Luke guide us into a way of being and becoming that guide us deeper into who we are and who God is calling us to…
by Rev Alisha 