by maryjo | Oct 28, 2024 | sermon
(Bryan) On occasions when we are in Central Otago, we see people boldly stepping off a disused bridge by a bungee cord. Judging by the screams it is a highly exciting experience. Then when they emerge, often after a dunking in the Clutha River most seem elated. I...
by maryjo | Oct 23, 2024 | sermon
Mark 10:32-45 – The Request of James and John Introduction This reading from Mark 10 is probably one we’ve heard a few times before. It’s also pretty straightforward, isn’t it? We can see that the heart of this passage is the revelation that Life under the rule...
by maryjo | Oct 15, 2024 | sermon
James 3: 1-10 & Mark 10:17-31 Challenged by Jesus It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. (Mark 10:25) This week I was reading an article from “Sojourners” a Christian group based in the USA which...
by maryjo | Oct 7, 2024 | sermon
The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ‘Tis mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes the throned monarch...
by maryjo | Aug 26, 2024 | sermon
THE ARMOUR OF GOD by Linda Cowan & Christine Arnold All our readings from the epistles over the past month have come from the book of Ephesians. I started to ask myself what I actually know about Ephesus and the Ephesians and it didn’t add up to a whole...
