by Rev Alisha

Tag: spirituality

  • The ‘Good’ in Good Friday

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    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 —…

  • The Paradox of Peace

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    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…

  • Bearing Fruit in Barren Times

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    Feb 16, 2025Jeremiah 17:5-10 In secular- Australia, we have often been shy about our faith… and for good reason. The atrocities we have come to learn about through colonization and the Royal Commission has meant many of us have kept the Gospel hidden. But good news can’t be hidden even by our worst human failings,…

  • Caught-up in Christ

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    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.

  • Called for the Life of the World

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    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…

  • Beauty will Save the World

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    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…

  • Turn Around

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    Jan 12, 2025Isaiah 43:1-7 and Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 The New Year is not just a time to look towards the future, but also a time to turn around. Isaiah and Luke guide us into a way of being and becoming that guide us deeper into who we are and who God is calling us to…

  • The Truth of Transfiguration

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    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…

  • Liberation’s Way

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    Angel of YHWHYou are the pillar of cloudthat lights up the nightone with the darknessand one with our fright. Lead us awayfrom powers and politicsthat subdue and persuadeand guide us on dry landthe path to your freedomby Moses’ hand. Form a wall of gracefor the downcast and displaced:those we turn our backs towardsand those we…

  • the Politics of Passover

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    God of politicsyou come to those downcast and dismissedenslaved and weighed down in mortar and bricksbringing food and freedom:a pathway to your kingdom. May we learn how to eatwith loins girded, sandals on feetstaff in hand, on the edge of our seat,waiting and watchingas you break the chainsof the oppressive reignsand the systems sustainedon the…