by Rev Alisha

Tag: kenosis

  • The Way of the Wilderness

    ·

    by

    alisha
    in

    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…

  • The Story that Costs us Something

    ·

    by

    alisha
    in

    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…

  • The Liberation of Letting Go

    ·

    by

    alisha
    in

    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,…