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...