Prayers of Adoration & Confession We praise you, God of radiant love, under the light of the life giving sun. When the blue skies stretch clear and wide, our hearts open with joy to reflect your light, the first of your creative acts. Let there be light for us today: your light of love [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Gentle God, Divine love, all loves excelling, who proclaims freedom to the captives, good news to the poor, liberty to the oppressed. Whose favour falls as an enveloping rain of grace. Plant the seed of your love deep within the soil of our hearts. Not merely an emotion, or [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Dear Lord Jesus, Trail over us the wide hem of your garment May your peace and healing trickle down through the great canopy of the world. Have mercy when difference becomes division Where diversity melts into the haze of exclusion, hatred, and self-righteousness. Grant to us the humility to [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession God who delights in us, We rejoice in the wonder of your creation, providing all that we need. Forgive us for being ungracious and thankless guests and encourage us to listen for and respond in faithfulness to the cry of the Earth and all who live here with us. [...]
Peter Blair (Olive Way Co-ordinator) reflected on Jesus' actions at the Wedding at Cana and the implications for us in offering hospitality. John 2:1-11 (Peter & Sharmila celebrate their 15th Wedding Anniversary tomorrow.)
Prayers of Adoration & Confession God of fire and thunder, You are stronger than the crashing waves, And more powerful than a hurricane, You reign above all that threatens to destroy us. Spirit of energy and passion, You are the force that changes the world, Shaking the rich from their places of rest, Driving [...]
When our ancestors first came here this was a wild, strange land to them. But the people of the Wurundjeri-Willam, the white gum tree clan in the Woi Wurrung language territory of the Kulin Nation, called it home. They cultivated it with fire to provide food, water, medicine and shelter, hearing in it the calling [...]
Renewing the Covenant in the New Year Today we meet, as generations before us have met, to renew that which bound them and now binds us to God. The covenant is that relationship of promise and faithfulness first made through Noah, Abraham and Moses, made new for us in Christ, expressed in baptism and [...]
In our festive pageantry at this time of the year, the star sits atop of every Christmas tree and appears in a dozen different carols. What’s it about? Three things. It’s about light. It’s about creation. And it’s about the Spirit. Graeme Garrett
Prayers of Adoration & Confession God of creation, the stars in the sky remind us of the enormity of the cosmos. Your creation is beyond our capacity to understand and yet you gift her to us as a home. Your love for all things, fast moving humanity vast imponderable mountains, deep groaning oceans, flowers [...]