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...
by maryjo | Dec 9, 2024 | sermon
Malachi 3:1-4 & Luke 3:1-6 God’s Messenger I am not too sure how many weddings I have officiated at during my ministry but it must be in the hundreds. One of the things I have noticed with weddings is the inordinate amount of time spent by many people in making...
by maryjo | Dec 1, 2024 | sermon
on Luke 21:25-36, 1 December 2024, “The Kingdom of God is near” The church year begins with the Season of Advent, looking forward to celebrating the coming of Christ. Personally I have found the language that speaks of the birth of Jesus as if it were a future event...
