Year C

14 September 2025 The concept of repentance is a tad unfashionable these days, but justice cannot be achieved without it, and worship becomes shallow for lack of it. It's [...]

07 September 2025 This is not going to be a fun week to preach - but it is going to be life-giving! The essential message of this week's readings [...]

31 August 2025 One word, perhaps, sum up the Lectionary readings this week: humility. In the face of a culture in which we are all encouraged to 'value ourselves', [...]

24 August 2025 In today's readings two significant ideas come together: "Sabbath" and "God's Kingdom". A true understanding of Sabbath (which links, of course, with the idea of Jubilee), [...]

17 August 2025 It's not a comfortable week, this week, but it is a significant one. This week we really have an opportunity to be confronted with the powerful [...]

10 August 2025 It may come as a surprising thought that the 'blessings' we receive and enjoy have the potential to make us less Christ-like, but, depending on how [...]

03 August 2025 Where do you place your faith? Does the idea of trusting God for protection, provision and justice sound naive and unrealistic to you? Yet, this is [...]

27 July 2025 There can be no question that the work of faith, of receiving God's grace, and of following Christ in worship and service, is a life long [...]

20 July 2025 This week it's all about listening - to God's word - and to living it out in compassion, integrity and justice - which requires listening to others. This [...]

29 June 2025 It is not enough to resist evil. It is not enough to not do what is destructive or harmful. It is not enough to avoid what [...]