Delievered on Sunday 7 March, 2010
by Rev Dr John Evans
Isaiah 55:1-9
Psalm 63:1-8
1 Corinthians 10:1-13
Luke 13:1-9
In baseball there is a rule that says that if the game is two thirds of the way through the 9 innings of a full game, and one team is 10 runs ahead of the other, the [...]
28 February, 2010 – 10:50 am
Delivered on Sunday 28 February, 2010
by Rev Dr John Evans
Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
Psalm 27
Philippians 3:17-4:1
Luke 13:31-35
Today in our journeying towards Easter through this season of Lent and at the same time journeying to the celebration marking the establishment our congregation 150 years ago, I want to consider the role and the [...]
21 February, 2010 – 8:26 am
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans
on Sunday 21 February, 2010
Deuteronomy 26:1-11
Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16
Romans 10:8b-13
Luke 4:1-13
Today we begin two journeys.
The first is our annual Lenten journey with Christ into his passion, death and then at Easter his resurrection. We are called again to reflect on what this means for us – who [...]
1 February, 2010 – 7:18 am
Delivered on 31 January 2010
by Rev Dr John Evans
Jeremiah 1:4-10
Psalm 71:1-6
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
Luke 4:21-30
Today in our fast paced gospel reading we hear two well known proverbs or sayings that have entered our common language.
“Doctor heal thyself” or “Physician heal thyself “
The second is
“No prophet is accepted in the prophet’s hometown”
or as it is sometimes translated
“Prophets [...]
25 January, 2010 – 6:59 am
Delivered24 January, 2010
By Rev Dr John Evans
Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10
Psalm 19
1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
Luke 4:14-21
I believe on websites there are things called spoiler alerts. Warnings that you may not wish to proceed. You may hear information about a film, or program or a book, that you yourself may wish to see or read. Tody – the [...]
17 January, 2010 – 7:42 am
Delivered on 17 January, 2010
by Rev Dr John Evans
Isaiah 62:1-5
Psalm 36:5-10
1 Corinthians 12:1-11
John 2:1-11
One of the classics of theological writing in the last generation has been the comparatively small book by Walter Brueggemann The Prophet Imagination. Brueggemann an American Old Testament scholar has keen insight into the contemporary issues facing the church in the [...]
11 January, 2010 – 6:57 am
Delivered 10 January 2010
by Rev Dr John Evans
Isaiah 43:1-7
Psalm 29
Acts 8:14-17
Luke 3:15-17, 21-22
John the Baptist says: I will baptize you with water . .. he, Jesus, will baptise you with the Holy Spirit.”
Water – precious water. Oh how it has risen in our estimation of being important. Water these days is just constantly in the [...]
3 January, 2010 – 8:26 am
Delivered on 4 January, 2010
by Rev Dr John Evans
Isaiah 60:1-6
Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14
Ephesians 3:1-12
Matthew 2:1-12
In our very secular world, it is strange to see and hear central and important words of the church are being appropriated by others. Today, no organisation worth its salt would be caught dead without a particularly “mission” or “mission statement”. [...]
30 December, 2009 – 8:13 am
Delivered by Rev Dr John A Evans
on Sunday 27th December, 2009
1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26
Psalm 148
Luke 2:41-52
This is a good time of the year. There is space. The busyness of getting reading for Christmas and then celebrating Christmas is passed – and the urgency of the New Year has not begun. It is a delightful in-between [...]
30 December, 2009 – 8:06 am
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans
On Christmas Day 2009
Isaiah 52:7-10
Psalm 98
John 1:1-14
We all like a good story – especially at Christmas time. Indeed some of us may have been given a good book as a Christmas present. And of course we heard another story this morning – the story of The Fourth or The Other [...]
