Reflection 27/11 – Hope is Optimism with a Broken Heart
A reflection on Hope and Grief I refer to Matthew 24:36-44 and quote extensively from "Faith, Hope and Carnage" by Nick Cave and Sean O'Hagan. https://youtu.be/ilYryThigsA?t=1745
Sermon 13/11 – The First Day and the Last Day
A reflection focussing on the contrasting prophesies in Isaiah 65 and Luke 21 https://youtu.be/Iseb_0m0NPc
Creating for Advent
Hope, Peace, Joy, Love The Season of Advent begins on Sunday 27th November. During worship we will be exploring the traditional themes of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love as we reflect on the writings of the prophet Isaiah and from Matthew’s Gospel. Read the lectionary here. To help shape our worship the worship committee invites [...]
Sermon 25/10 – A Cure For Eco-Anxiety
A reflection on Jeremiah's strange prophetic action, buying a field in the midst of a siege - Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 https://youtu.be/bpuTaqhgI_8?t=1740
Sermon 28/8 – Power in Vulnerability
A reflection on the image of God in Psalm 81. Warning: contains spoilers for episode 4 of The Sandman on Netflix! https://youtu.be/b-TuVNYg0yw?t=1351
Christmas Day 2019
Prayers of Adoration & Confession May we hear your voice within us O Emmanuel May we build your reign among us O Emmanuel O Emmanuel God of hope, You show us how swords can be turned into ploughshares and you walk with us on the paths of justice. God of peace, [...]
Blue Christmas 2019
Blue Christmas Our worship provided a space for reflection on God's Christmas gifts of hope, peace, joy and love. We heard from the prophet Isaiah and the Gospel of Luke, lit the Advent and Christmas candles, shared an adaptation of the Advent litany and sang our Advent song 'Come O God, we pray', We [...]
Christmas Bowl – Advent 1
Harvesting hope in Zimbabwe Hope is scarce for mothers like Nyevero, who couldn’t feed her family after losing her crops to Zimbabwe’s merciless drought. Most days, she and her husband, teenage son and two young daughters had just one thin bowl of porridge to survive on. Nyevero felt desperate as she watched her children get [...]
Defiant Hope
Easter hope after Christchurch. A reflection on Luke 24:1-12. I show a number of videos in this reflection: The haka outside the Al Noor Mosque (Tenei Te Ruru begins at 00:47) - I play three excerpts of this through the reflection 1973 All Blacks haka contrasted with the 2015 All Blacks haka Jacinda Ardern's speech [...]
Brokenness & Hope
Thinking Jesus dead, the disciples lock themselves in a room. And yet their gathering is interrupted and reshaped by someone passing through the door. What might this mean? We welcomed Matt Julius as our preacher. Matt is a student at the Centre for Theology & Ministry, a member of the new Synod Mission and [...]