Tag: lectionary
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Becoming the Change
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…
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Something Out of Nothing
Jan 4, 2025 Isaiah 25:6-10aRevelation 21:1-6a We begin at a threshold — where Isaiah’s feast of rich food and wiped tears meets the ache and uncertainty of the present. Through scripture, memory, and the ordinary holiness of communion, imagination emerges not as escape but as resistance — the way God keeps making something out of…
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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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A Meeting at the Margins
Nov 23, 2025Luke 23:33-43 In a world bent on seeing red, we’re invited to see the way God truly sees us — and I mean all of us — beloved and holy. On this Christ the King Sunday, true power is revealed not from a throne or a crown looking down, but from the cross. Here, Christ’s…
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Empty Hands, Full Hearts
July 6, 2025Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 In a world where peace is often twisted by power, consumerism, and fear, Jesus calls us to a radically different kind of peace—one that is received, shared, and disruptive. Sent out like the 72, we enter lives with empty hands, listening hearts, and courage to witness the inherent dignity 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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Caught-up in Christ
Feb 9, 2025Luke 5: 1-11 Too often in progressive churches we deny ourselves the feeling of the ecstatic – of what it might mean to follow Christ. Simon Peter shows us how letting ourselves be consumed by Christ’s beauty and abundance has the capacity to change everything.
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Called for the Life of the World
Feb 2, 2025Jeremiah 1:4-10 The misconception about ‘call’ is that it’s for the select few, the saints of our history, the prophets of our past or the preachers at our pulpits. But the fact is, we are all called. We are all born into this time and place with our unique gifts and graces for…
by Rev Alisha 