Palm Sunday Alongside the live stream on Sundays you can also connect to worship by reading the Sunday Prayer Post each week – Sunday Prayers 5/4 listening to the Sermon post each week – Are you ready to walk into this week? The full order of service for Palm Sunday is available here. You can also [...]
On Palm Sunday Valentina Satvedi offered three short reflections responding to our readings asking questions each time: Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29 - How may we share our experience of God's steadfast love? Matthew 21:1-8 - Where are we being called to go this Sunday? Matthew 21:9-11 - What might we discover as we walk through Holy [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession Kyrie eleison, Kyrie, eleison, Kyrie eleison, Kyrie eleison SONG: Kyrie eleison, from Together in Song, Harper Collins Religious, copyright unknown Translation – Lord have mercy upon us Steadfast God, Your love endures forever. You hear our cries. When we have been rejected by others you take us into the [...]
Alongside the live stream on Sundays you can also connect to worship by reading the Sunday Prayer Post each week - Sunday Prayers 29/3 listening to the Sermon post each week - What binds you today? The full order of service for Lent 5 is available here. You can also watch the live stream again here. If you [...]
Reflecting on the parallel stories from Ezekiel and the Gospel of John. Valentina asks 'What binds you today?'. She reminds us that 'The breath of God brings us to life wherever we are gathered this morning and it unbinds us from whatever binds us. Resurrection is around the corner. Valentina Satvedi Leydon, Brunswick UC, [...]
Lent 4A Alongside the live stream on Sundays you can also connect to worship by reading the Sunday Prayer Post each week - Sunday Prayers 22/3 accessing the Sermon post each week - Surely we are not blind, are we? We will also seek to provide the full order of service before Sunday but [...]
A reflection on 'the contest of theologies around this idea of sin' from John 9:1-41 in a time when everything around us is off balance. With thanks to Peter Blair, Olive Way Pastor, Brunswick UC The text of the sermon is available here.
Prayers of Adoration & Confession God in love you created the world, a place of perfection and beauty You gave her to humanity, a precious gift to love and care for Abundant and flourishing with life in wonderful and glorious forms. Forgive us for our lack of care for this precious gift. Jesus in [...]
Reflecting on the story of Jesus and the woman at the well (John 4:3-42) we ask 'Who are we othering (marginalizing) amidst the current pandemic? On this day, in this time, who do we need to reach out to? Where do we extend our offer of relationship? What divide are we called to step [...]
Prayers of Adoration & Confession God who is the rock of our salvation, We come into your presence with thanksgiving, Making a joyful noise and singing songs of praise. In the time of doubt and anxiety You guided Moses to the rock of Horeb Where he struck water and the people’s thirst was quenched. [...]