Throughout the season of Lent we are exploring the overarching theme of covenant, God’s promise of faithful love. This week, Lent 4, our worship continued to be guided by God’s covenant as we joined the Israelites in the wilderness and reflect on trusting God in places of life and death. We added another sign of the [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Watch or 8:00 God of wilderness journeys Jesus, light of the world Spirit of life, You show us the way In the midst of the wilderness When all seems lost You are there. It is not just wilderness, but wilderness and hope, wilderness and life. You hear our cries You [...]
Prayer Points Ministry Team Culture of Safety program Moderator – Denise Stewart Lodge & residents Worship Committee Finance Committee YUCY & YUCY-OG Compassion Ministry BUC Arts Synod of VicTas Creatures of the sea BUC News Ordination of Yoo Mi Park The Ordination of Yoo Mi [...]
I’ve been thinking about angels. This thinking was prompted by Graeme Garret’s sermon ‘A Trinity of Angels’ on the second Sunday of Epiphany. In this sermon Graeme commented ‘The gospel highlights three major points where angels appear in the life of Jesus.’ The third one referred to Matthew’s telling of Jesus’ temptation, his experience [...]
Jesus is raging, upsetting the status quo, remaking his world. A reflection on John 2:13-22
Throughout the season of Lent we will be exploring the overarching theme of covenant, God’s promise of faithful love. This week, Lent 3, God gave Abraham’s descendants (including us!) the ten commandments, written on tablets of stone, bringing the covenant down to earth. In Ian's reflection we heard the challenge of these commandments in the gospel [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Watch or 9:21 Holy One, we thank you and praise you for the rainbow covenant of your love. We rejoice in the promise of your faithfulness, ‘I am with you’. Thank you for your grace accepting us as we are, all your children through all generations, a multitude like the [...]
Prayer Points Ministry Team Yoo Mi preparing for Ordination Valentina & Tom settling in to Launceston Church Council Olive Way program Pastoral Care Committee Justice & Mission Committee Sunday Morning Program Roster participants Non-Violent Direct Action FUNdraising Committee Presbytery of Port Philip West Creatures of the land [...]