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, [...]
by Rev. Dr Wesley Campbell delivered 5 June 2011 Ephesians 1:15-23 Psalm 47 Luke 24:44-53 Acts 1:1-11 Last Thursday, forty days after Easter, we celebrated Ascension Day (as we do today this Sunday). Here we follow Luke’s calendar. He recalls the importance of forty in the biblical story: forty days and nights for the Noah [...]
delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 8 May, 2011 Acts 2:14a, 36-41 Psalm 116:1-4, 12-19 1 Peter 1:17-23 Luke 24:13-35 There are few events or movements in history which can be pinned down to happening on one day. . . and then we remember the actual day. The 11th September, 2001 or as it [...]
Delivered by Rev. Dr John Evans Sunday 1 May 2011 Acts 2:14a, 22-32 Psalm 16 1 Peter 1:3-9 John 20:19-31 Within the life of the church we are now in the season of Easter. Indeed it is known as the great fifty days. It includes eight Sundays beginning with the Eater vigil, last Saturday night, [...]
Easter Sunday 24 April, 2011 Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Acts 10:34-43 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Colossians 3:1-4 Matthew 28:1-10 We know the story. It is at the heart of the Christian faith. Christ, the one we recalled being crucified just several days ago, is no longer dead but alive. This morning we have heard [...]
Good Friday, 2011 – 22 April, 2011 Delievered by Rev Dr John Evans Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Psalm 22 Hebrews 10:16-25 John 18:1-19:42 Here is a thought. “We can be better than we are as Australians.” “We can be better people than we are, as you and I – full stop”. This was a simple observation that [...]
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 10 April, 2011 Ezekiel 37:1-14 Psalm 130 Romans 8:6-11 John 11:1-45 At our recent Church Camp, we reflected on this vision of the prophet Ezekiel of the valley of the dry bones and the question “can these bones live?” One group looked at this with music; another in [...]
Delivered by Rev Dr John Evans Sunday 3 April, 2011 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Psalm 23 Ephesians 5:8-14 John 9:1-41 Perhaps the most significant television interview of the year, or at least the most memorable, was the one involving Tony Abbott’s famous death stare. You know the one? Tony Abbott on 8 February of this year [...]
