by Rev Alisha

Tag: christianity

  • Breaking the Cycle

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    August 16. 2026Genesis 45:1-15 We know the old saying: hurt people hurt people. But Joseph’s story dares to imagine a different ending—one where the pain we inherit does not become the pain we inflict. Because maybe the greatest miracle our world needs right now is the grace of God at work in us, transforming what…

  • Hiding in Plain Sight

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    July 26, 2026 Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 We are all being formed by what we learn to notice. In Matthew 13, Jesus invites us beyond distraction and into a deeper way of seeing, revealing a Kingdom that keeps appearing in the unsavoury, the inconvenient and the overlooked. This sermon explores how learning where to direct our…

  • Another Way

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    June 28, 2026 Genesis 22:1-14 There’s nothing quite like a story about child sacrifice to mark the end of maternity leave — and yet, I wouldn’t have it any other way. We dive headfirst into one of the Bible’s most disturbing passages to find, just beneath the horror, a God who has always been in…

  • Befriending the Dark

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    March 1, 2026John 3:1-17 What would happen if we saw darkness not as something to turn from but to be transformed by? In a culture (and a faith) addicted to light, certainty, productivity, and being right, John 3 offers a different way. A way of unknowing, where darkness becomes the place not only of honesty…

  • The Way of the Wilderness

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    Feb 22, 2026Matthew 4:1-11 From swept floors at Lunar New Year to the long fast of Ramadan and Jesus’ forty days in the desert, this week we follow the long thread of truth woven through human history: that renewal begins with release. This reflection explores Lent as an embodied practice, marked not just in calendars…

  • Letting the Light Out

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    Feb 15, 2026Matthew 17:1-9 We’re drawn to stories where impossibility doesn’t have the final word — where something luminous emerges anyway. This reflection weaves the Transfiguration story with human lives shaped by struggle to ask what it really means to see. Not to escape the world, but to recognise how inner light takes form in…

  • Heaven, Here

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    Feb 1, 2026Matthew 5:1-12 What if heaven isn’t somewhere we go later, but something we keep encountering together? Drawing on the Beatitudes, shared rituals, and moments of public gathering, we see how blessing takes shape among the grieving, the gentle, and those who hunger for justice. From mountaintops to city streets, heaven is revealed not…

  • The Story that Costs us Something

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    Jan 25, 20261 Corinthians 1:10-18 Australia tells a story about a fair go, mateship, and equality, but that story is incomplete without truth about this land and its First Peoples. In that space between who we say we are and who we are still becoming, the story of the cross invites us into reconciliation shaped…

  • What Are You Looking For?

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    Jan 18, 2026John 1:29-42 What if the thing you’ve been searching for has been quietly looking for you all along? We live in a world that tells us what to look at, what to fear, and who to blame — and in the noise, it’s easy to lose sight of what we’re actually longing for.…

  • Becoming the Change

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    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…