Uncommon Prayers

Texts:  1 John 3.16-24; John 10.11-18 In the passage we read just now from John’s gospel, Jesus is addressing his Jewish opponents. ‘I ...

Texts:  1 John 3.1-7; Luke 24.36-48 When, in Luke’s version of the story, the risen Jesus first appears to his closest friends and comp...

Acts 2. 14, 36-41; Psalm 116.1-4, 12-19; 1 Peter 1.17-23; Luke 24.13-35 Well the times have come full circle and we find ourselves in t...

John 12. 20-33 In 1819 John Keats, the English poet, sat transfixed before an ancient vase he happened upon in an Italian museum. It was ...

1 Corinthians 1.18-25 When Paul writes his first letter to the Corinthians, he writes to a church that has begun to abandon the Christi...

The Uniting Church's National Christian Youth Convention in January 2009 celebrated the Eucharist using billy tea instead of wine, app...

Text:  Deuteronomy 18. 15-20; Psalm 111; 1 Corinthians 8. 1-13; Mark 1. 21-28 According to Mark’s gospel, when Jesus began to preach in...