by Rev Alisha

Tag: lectionary

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Something Out of Nothing

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    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…

  • Awake My Soul

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    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…

  • A Meeting at the Margins

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    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…

  • Empty Hands, Full Hearts

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    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…

  • The Tectonic Hum of God

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    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…