Delievered by Rev Dr John A Evans Sunday 20 May, 2012 I am currently reading the book by the political commentator , George Megalogenis: The Australian Moment: How we were made for these times. As the subtitle suggests the book traces over roughly the last 50 years as to how Australia has got to the [...]
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 6 May, 2012 Richard Holloway, the former Anglican Bishop of Edinburgh in his recent memoir, Leaving Alexandria: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt observes that the opposite to faith, is not doubt, but certainty. Doubt on the other hand is wrapped up with our coming to faith. Faith [...]
Delieverd by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 29 April, 2012 If the proverbial Martian were to land on earth, they would be puzzled by the Christian faith. They would see Christianity being contradictory, or at best paradoxical. And our readings today illustrate well what I am getting at. On the one hand our faith is [...]
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 22 April 1 John 3: 1-7 John Wesley, no less, writing in his diary for Thursday 1 September, 1763 says of the first letter of John “How plain, how full, and how deep a compendium of genuine Christianity!” Perhaps John Wesley wasn’t thinking of our passage that we [...]
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 15 April, 2012 I came across a new word during the week: monetise. (Well it seemed to be a new word to me.) However, it was one of those words you could sort of guess its meaning. Simply as I understand it, it means making money from something [...]
Delivered by Rev. Dr John Evans Easter Day 8 April 2012 Last Wednesday I found myself standing in a cemetery. I was conducting the graveside service for my aunt: Lilla Dorothy Clewett by name. It was a large gathering. She was one of 12 children so there were lots of her nephews and nieces. She [...]
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Good Friday 6 April, 2012 I will confess. I have a new vice. I have come to enjoy a round of golf at the Royal Park Golf Course. And I even play with some of the congregation. I am not very good – but I do well enough to [...]
Delievered by Rev Dr John Evans Palm Sunday 1 April, 2012 There are often passages of scripture, familiar passages of scripture, in which you miss particular, significant, detail and all of a sudden a new meaning jumps out at you. You then see the whole incident in a new light. So you may have read [...]
Delievered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 25 March, 2012 There are two perspectives we can take on Easter. Do we take Easter as a job lot, a package deal, on what we regard as the essence of the Christian faith: saying something about our salvation, relationship with God, through the death and resurrection of [...]
Delievered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 18 March, 2012 Among other things, Lent is the season in which the church comes to terms with suffering, especially that suffering which is the result of human sin. It is in the context of their suffering that women and men often encounter most seriously their need for [...]
