Uncommon Prayers

Texts: Exodus 17.1-7; Psalm 95; John 4.5-42 In October 2000, much of the state of Victoria found itself without hot water. A key gas process...

Texts: Genesis 2.15-17; 3.1-7; Psalm 32; Romans 5.12-19; Matthew 4.1-11 This morning I want to talk about a spiritual practice that, like m...

Most of the Christian churches worship God within an ecumenically agreed pattern of biblical readings and sacred seasons known as the liturg...

Texts: Isaiah 58.1-9a; Psalm 112.1-10; 1 Corinthians 2.1-16; Matthew 5.13-20 In the middle of the first century Mediterranean world, ...

Text: Matthew 5.1-12 Matthew's beatitudes summarise the essential spirit of Jesus' teaching in much the same way as the ‘Ten co...

Isaiah 9. 1-4; 1 Corinthians 1. 10-18; Matthew 4. 12-23 In 1916, as the horror of the 1st World War unfolded in Europe, the American poet...

Texts:   Isaiah 11.1-10; Ps 72.1-7, 18-19; Rom 15.4-13; Matthew 3.1-12   Like most all of the lections we read during Advent, the Scri...