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 willing to put themselves "out there". Everything – from corporations [...]

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 abandoned by God this Sunday, or possibly the call of [...]

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 week the readings ranged from God's creation of men and [...]

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 we can easily discern when something is "of God" or [...]

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 heads, making righteousness about right ideas and wickedness about wrong [...]

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 cross. What holds all of these ideas together is the [...]