by Rev. Dr John Evans
Exodus 14:19-31
Matthew 18:21-35
Do you ever have one of those days when everything seems to go wrong?
This happens to me, and it usually concerns some relatively small domestic project, like fixing a squeaking door or some such. First of all, you don’t quite have the right tool, and so you improvise. [...]
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Exodus 12:1-14
Romans 13:8-14
Matthew 18:15-20
Last Friday week I stood in a cark park at Fulham – a hamlet, just this side of Sale. One way I looked out there were cows grazing – roaming free. The other way there was a high fence, razor wire and humans in large enclosed areas, and [...]
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Exodus 3:1-15
Matthew 16:21-28
The reading from Exodus today is a pivotal, foundational passage for all of Scripture. It is a basic passage in understanding the story, the history of God. It is essential to our faith.
This reading tells us how God is to be known and named. God is to be known [...]
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Romans 12:1-8
Matthew 16:13-20
One of the first questions we ask when we meet someone is – where do you come from; where is home? Are you new here; where do you come from?
Place is important. We can make connections with someone because we might know that place, or someone else from that [...]
This feature documentary about the impact of cluster munitions on Laos depicts Australian bomb disposal expert Laith Stevens training locals to deal with bombs leftover after the US ‘Secret War’ 35 years ago.
Meanwhile, local children are out hunting for scrap metal . . .
Timely and terrifying, yet filled with eccentric characters and moments of humour, [...]
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Genesis 45:1-15
Earlier in the year I made the prediction that the year 2008 would be a significant year in this the early part of the 21st century. It would be the year of economic adjustment, even recession; a year that climate change really became the issue; and with rising oil prices, [...]
