by maryjo | Mar 23, 2025 | sermon
Luke 13:31-35 Introduction Our Gospel reading this morning almost has a barnyard feel to it. If our reading was a play, there would be three main characters, the Fox, the Hen, and the City. Now it’s kind of funny to think of a city as a character, we think of it as a...
by maryjo | Mar 11, 2025 | sermon
Luke 4:1-13 – The Temptation of Christ With today’s reading it almost feels like we’ve gone back to the beginning, or almost the beginning. We’ve been working our way through Luke’s gospel, getting a feel for who Jesus is and what this Kingdom of God looks...
by maryjo | Mar 11, 2025 | sermon
Luke 9:28-36 – Transfiguration Jesus is unequalled and the one to lead us out from death Years ago, when I was doing a lot of tramping, I began to get interested in landscape photography. At first, it was just a record of the amazing places I’d enjoyed walking...
by maryjo | Feb 24, 2025 | sermon
Text: Luke 6:17-26 One of the first things we’ve noticed about Christchurch is that it is flat! I’ve spent much of my life around hills and even in the shadow of mountains. Whether it’s the rolling hills of Southland, the bush-clad flanks of Mount Cargill, or...
by maryjo | Feb 10, 2025 | sermon
Our reading from Luke is part 2 of Jesus’s Nazareth address, his first sermon, if you will, that Luke the Gospel writer records. It starts off well and then gets a bit spicy, with the people of Nazareth trying to do away with Jesus. As I was sitting with the reading...
