Tag: advent
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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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Waiting in the Wilderness
Leaverun to touch the unknown edge of the soultip-toe on the cliff of its waterfallbuy its one-way ticket somewhere farwhere the comforts and constrictionsof this weary, western fictioncrumble awayfrom the drudge of daily-doingsto dancing in the grey. Let her wander deep into the wildernessfollowing its inner purposehearing its wild wingshovering in the in-betweenof what’s invisible…
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The Way
What ifthe waythe truththe lifewas not some threadbare pathinvisible to the naked eyesomewhere far awayand up highsomething you have to work foror something you have to buy? What if the way was where you already arewaiting to be exploredwaiting for you to take off your loadto bare, instead, a yoke so easy so lightlike a…
by Rev Alisha 