21 August, 2011 – 9:32 am
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 21 August, 2011 Exodus 1:8-2:10 Psalm 124 Romans 12:1-8 Matthew 16:13-20 “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.” (Matthew 16:18) This is a significant text in the history of [...]
14 August, 2011 – 8:48 am
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 14 August, 2011 Genesis 45:1-15 Psalm 133 Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32 Matthew 15: (10-20), 21-28 It has been a turbulent time recently. The world economy is up and down, and though at the moment it would seem to be more down than up! But also some basic assumptions have [...]
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 7 August, 2011 Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28 Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, 45b Romans 10:5-15 Matthew 14:22-33 We continue with the great foundational stories of the Jewish people. Today’s is the story of Jospeh, Jacob’s son to Rachel. In this amazingly dysfunctional family, you may recall Jacob, who we now [...]
delivered 31 July 2011 by Rev. Dr John Evans Genesis 32:22-31Psalm 17:1-7, 15Romans 9:1-5Matthew 14:13-21 Today I want to talk about food and meals. When I was a principal of a university college, people would ask me what was a residential college. I had a simple answer – we, the residents, eat together. Of course [...]
delivered 24 July 2011 by Rev. Dr John Evans Genesis 29:15-28 Psalm 105:1-11, 45b Romans 8:26-39 Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 In the great 8th chapter of Romans Paul explains and indeed extends his vision of the impact of Jesus Christ on our life in this way: We know the whole creation has been groaning in labour [...]
Delivered Sunday 17 July, 2011 By Rev Dr John Evans Genesis 28:10-19a Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 Romans 8:12-25 Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 As I get older – possibly wiser – this often maligned parable of the wheat and the weeds becomes more and more significant, for me personally – and I think for our increasingly diverse and [...]
delivered on 3 July 2011 by Rev. Dr Wes Campbell Genesis 24: 34-38, 42-49, 58-67 Isaac and Rebecca Song of Songs 2: 8-13 A song of the beloved Romans 7: 15-25a Living ‘under the Law’’ Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 ’My yoke is easy’ Last Sunday Bev and I went to an Anglican service. I noticed, [...]
delivered by Rev. Dr John Evans Sunday 10 July 2011 Genesis 12:1-9 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Well it is great being back. And what a privilege I have had for having the chance to do something completely different: to stop, reflect, read and write – about my own faith, about the life of the church today, [...]
delivered by Rev. Pam Kerr Sunday 19 June 2011 Genesis 1:1-2:4a Psalm 8 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 Matthew 28:16-20 Today is Trinity Sunday: how do we explain this mystery, which the church calls the doctrine of the Trinity? What does it mean in our lives? Does it make any difference to our faith? I want us [...]
delivered 12 June 2011 by Rev. Hon. Prof. Brian Howe ‘How is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language? Parthians and Medes and Elamites and residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome, [...]
