John 12:1-8 Christ’s extravagant grace befits an extravagant response Introduction I wonder if you’ve ever been at a dinner table. Maybe with family, friends, or colleagues, and everyone’s having a great time. The wine is superb, the food is sublime. The conversation...

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...

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 like, and...

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 in. But...

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...

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...