Empty is Actually Full

Acts 10:34-43 • God shows no partiality. Mark 16:1-8 • The resurrected Jesus appears. What is there new for us to say about Easter? We celebrate the faith that there is always a renewed way by which God’s radical love breaks through.

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To Run or to Stand Firm

Jonah 3:1-5,10 • Ninevah Encouraged to Repent Mark 1:14-20 • The Call To Discipleship The suggested Psalm for today which we did not read is Psalm 6. Basically the Psalm calls on us to be still, and wait for or know, God. The readings this week offer us a challenge…when

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We Shall Gather In Joy

Jeremiah 31:7-14 Gathered in Joy John 1:10-18 • The Word was in the world. We feel as if we have been in exile…cut off from all we know and love. We are looking for “normal”, nothing spectacular just a chance to gather around a campfire with friends and hear the

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God’s House On The Move.

Scriptures: Luke 1:47-55 • Song of Mary. Luke 1:26-38 • The Angel Gabriel visits Mary. When the word becomes flesh and dwells among us the incarnate God becomes nomadic. God is more interested in being housed in people than in buildings and the story of Mary is the beginning of

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The Acceptable Year of the Lord

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 • The Spirit of the Lord is upon me. John 1:6-8,19-28 • John testifies to the Light. The Acceptable Year of the Lord, Year of God’s favour, the Year of Jubilee all refer to a sabbatical year where debts are forgiven, labourers are freed, the land is

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Being Moulded

Isaiah 64:1-9 • We are the clay and you are our potter. Now consider, we are all your people. Mark 13:24-37 • We will never know when God may appear in our midst. Be awake. Be alert. Entering a time of waiting in the midst of Covid-19 seems redundant at

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Use it or lose it

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11 • God comes as a thief in the night. Matthew 25:14-30 • Parable of the talents. What do you focus on more, the limitation or the possibilities? In this liminal time the possibilities are limitless. We will never discover what is possible without experimentation, without taking a

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