by Rev Alisha

Tag: epiphany

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • the body is the epiphany

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    As we continue in our season of Epiphany, a season of pointing to Jesus’ divinity, we come to a story that reveals Jesus’ authority when, on the Sabbath day in Capernaum, he enters a synagogue in Mark 1:21-28. Here we see that Jesus teaches in a way that astounds his listeners, teaching them things not…