Tag: jesus
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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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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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The Tectonic Hum of God
June 29, 20252 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 In a world of seismic change, we’re called to set our face toward God’s Kingdom, letting go of the past and stepping into the new life Christ offers. But some things do not change: young and old alike are seeking truth, community, and the Spirit of God, and Jesus…
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The Story in Our Flesh
June 8, 2025Acts 2:1-21 The story of God isn’t something we just tell — but something written into our very flesh. Pentecost invites us to trace the wild thread from Sinai to the upper room, from law to love, from breath to Spirit — a story still catching fire in our lungs today. Because the church isn’t…
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Becoming God’s Home
May 25, 2025John 14:23-29 What if home isn’t a place, but a presence? John invites us to explore Jesus’ promise to make his dwelling within us — not in temples or buildings, but in bodies becoming courtyards of grace. Resurrection, it turns out, isn’t somewhere we go; it’s something that unfolds within time, space, in you and…
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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…
by Rev Alisha 