Week of 17 – 23 November 2024
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK How do we respond to the ways of power and dominance in our world? The most natural response is to retaliate, using force to overcome [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK How do we respond to the ways of power and dominance in our world? The most natural response is to retaliate, using force to overcome [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK After last week’s focus on love, it is appropriate that the theme for this week is faith. Faith, or trust, and love always go together. [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK This week the focus is on the Great Commandment. We know Jesus’ words so well: “‘And you must love the LORD your God with all [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Although it does not remove the scars of Job's suffering - he would always carry the grief of his dead children, and the emotional residue [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK We live in a world where the quest for greatness has become almost obsessive. Reality television offers the promise of fame and wealth to anyone [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK Two words come together in the readings from the Revised Common Lectionary this week: compassion and suffering. You may read about Job's feeling of being [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK This Sunday, if one of the Lectionary readings was used in your worship, it may have struck you how concerned God is about relationships. This [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK We love to make faith about who is "in" and who is "out". We love to believe that we know how God works, and that [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK The challenge of our faith is to recognise our choices and choose wisely. One temptation is to make faith about what goes on in our [...]
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK There are so many ideas that come together in the Lectionary readings for this week: wisdom, the power of the tongue, and taking up the [...]