Tag: poetry
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Breaking the Cycle
August 16. 2026Genesis 45:1-15 We know the old saying: hurt people hurt people. But Joseph’s story dares to imagine a different ending—one where the pain we inherit does not become the pain we inflict. Because maybe the greatest miracle our world needs right now is the grace of God at work in us, transforming what…
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Hiding in Plain Sight
July 26, 2026 Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 We are all being formed by what we learn to notice. In Matthew 13, Jesus invites us beyond distraction and into a deeper way of seeing, revealing a Kingdom that keeps appearing in the unsavoury, the inconvenient and the overlooked. This sermon explores how learning where to direct our…
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Another Way
June 28, 2026 Genesis 22:1-14 There’s nothing quite like a story about child sacrifice to mark the end of maternity leave — and yet, I wouldn’t have it any other way. We dive headfirst into one of the Bible’s most disturbing passages to find, just beneath the horror, a God who has always been in…
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Befriending the Dark
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…
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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 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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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…
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Beauty will Save the World
Jan 19, 2025John 2:1-11 In a world full of chaos, war, and corruption, God reveals glory through the soft, unexpected, and beautiful—like Mary’s faith and Jesus’ first miracle at Cana. Beauty isn’t just decoration; it transforms hearts, reveals God’s presence, and invites us to participate in a world made new. So open your eyes… seek…
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The Truth of Transfiguration
If only we could wrap glory upkeep it coddled in a crateso that its shine and its shimmeringits light and its glimmeringwill remain intactperfect and cleanpure and pristinelasting forever, an eternal cadaver.But it calls us down the mountaindown into the trenchesmaking home on the plainexposed to elementsthe sun and the rain.Glory is meant to be…
by Rev Alisha 