Reflection 2 June – “Speak Lord, your servant is listening.” – Joy Kingsbury – Aitken
Reflection on 1 Samuel 3:1-20 & Psalm 139:1-18 by Joy Kingsbury-Aitken “Speak Lord, your servant is listening.” In recent years we have come to better understand the destructive impact of colonisation upon the people whose lands are being occupied by newcomers,...
Reflection 26 May – Trinity Sunday – Linda Cowan
Reflection 26 May 2024 – Linda Cowan Delivering the sermon on Trinity Sunday is not something people necessarily queue up to do. And I understand why. The Trinity is tricky. The whole concept of the Trinity is a human construct, but it’s so deeply embedded in...
Reflection 12 May – What Does it Mean to Say Jesus Is Risen? – Joy Kingsbury – Aitken
What does it mean to say “Jesus is Risen?” by Joy Kingsbury-Aitken Between Easter and Pentecost, the church invites us to consider what it means to say Jesus is risen. Today’s reading from the book of Acts reminds us that for many days following the first Easter, the...
Reflection 5 May – Joy Kingsbury-Aitken
Reflection on Acts 10:34-48 & John 15:9-17 by Joy Kingsbury-Aitken There are a surprising number of positive stories about centurions in the New Testament. There is the centurion whose faith in Jesus’ power to heal his slave at a distance so impresses Jesus...
Reflection 14 April – What it Means that Jesus was Raised!
by Rev. David Coster Acts 3:12-19 & Luke 24:36b-48 Living out what it means that God raised Jesus! This morning, I am helping some of you to reminisce, for I am quoting two of your previous Ministers. I suspect that at some point or other both shared something of...
Reflection 7 April – Joy Kingsbury – Aitken
Reflection on John 20:19-29 and 1 Cor. 15:1-11 by Joy Kingsbury-Aitken The earliest written testimony to the resurrection is not to be found within the four canonical gospels but in Paul’s first letter to the Christians in Corinth. While the gospels are thought to...
Reflection 17 March – John 12: 1 – 8
Sermon on John 12: 1-8. by Josh Olds Over the last few weeks, we’ve been focusing on the season of Lent that we find ourselves within. A season that is more than just going without chocolate for 6 weeks; we’ve been reflecting on how Lent is essentially a time of self...
Reflection 10 March – Joy Kingsbury-Aitken
Reflection on Numbers 21:4-9, John 3:14-21, & Ephesians 2:4-10 – by Joy Kingsbury-Aitken Today’s gospel reading contains the most quoted verse in the New Testament. Those of us who are retirees will remember how as Sunday school students we were encouraged...
Reflection 3 March – Joy Kingsbury-Aitken
Reflection on John 2:13-22 & 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 by Joy Kingsbury-Aitken The temple incident was so important in the life of Jesus that all four gospels recorded it. However, John places this incident during the lead-up to a Passover at the beginning of Jesus’...
Reflection 11 February – Rev. David Coster – Transfiguration!
Transfiguration - 2 Kings 2:1-12 & Mark 9:2-9 The Transfiguration! For those of you who have been following your Daily Devotional I suspect you have, like me this past week, been walking step by step up the mountain that ascends to Jesus’...