Reflection 15 October
Matthew 22:1-14 Reflection by Anne Stewart Recently I received an email inviting Martin and I to join a few other invited guests to a meal celebrating the people in The Village who had birthdays in October. We get these invitations every month. By my calculation that...
Reflection 1 and 8 October
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Reflection 24 September
The Village church with St Margaret’s & St Lukes Matthew 20:1-16 Springtime: witness to God’s abundance & generosity Reflection by Mart the Rev Spring. My word isn’t spring glorious! From daffodil to dogwood – all the colour and fragrance laid on for us – an...
Illumination
A Prayer for illumination, from Sunday 24 September 2017 We can't see light, only what it illuminates. We can't see love, only what it makes meaningful. In the same way God, we can't see you as such, but you do make yourself present to us. You illuminate, You give...
Reflection 17 September
Romans 14:1-12 - When we find ourselves unbalanced. A reflection by Dan Spragg. I might take offense at Paul here… I quite like vegetables! Who is the great apostle Paul to say that people who only eat vegetables are weak!? What does he know about the nutritional...
Reflection 10 September
1 Corinthians 3:1-11, 16, 21-23 & John 13:34-35 Reflection by Mart the Rev A few weeks back I was talking about the origins of the phrase ‘cutting a deal’ and how God announced to Abram that a covenant was going to be made and that a bunch of animals should be...
Reflection 3 September
Exodus 3:1-15 & Romans 12:9-21 ’Looking at what it means to be together’ Reflection by Anne Stewart (with some help from Eugene Peterson’s foreword to Romans in The Spiritual Formation Bible) Paul’s letter to the Romans has always been a bit of a favourite for me....
Reflection 27 August
Matthew 16:13-20 & Romans 12:1-2. You Only Know if You Know. A reflection by Dan Spragg I’ve always been curious about Jesus’ telling the disciples not to tell anyone he was the Messiah. It seemed a little at odds with what he was doing. Apparently it was ok for...
Reflection 20 August
(On the day when little Hugo was baptised into the church of the new covenant) Genesis 15:1-21 & Ephesians 1:1-14 Cutting a deal along with a dose of anakephalaiossathai [Mart the Rev revelling in a bunch of ideas explored by Rob Bell in What is the Bible?: How an...
Reflection 13 August
A Reflection on Matthew 14:22-33 - Jesus walks on water Reflection by Dan Spragg Growing up in New Zealand, it is almost a Kiwi kid’s rite of passage… jumping off some bridge, or some rock, or cliff into the river flowing far below! I remember doing it once when I was...