The Palm Sunday Procession (Revd Neville Watson) 24.3.2013 Readings: Isaiah 50:4-9a; Philemon 2:5-11; Luke 19:28-40 or John 12:12-16
My memory is not what it used to be, but I can remember as if it were yesterday the time I first saw a man riding a donkey. It was twenty years ago in Israel on the roa ... read more
You`re only as good as your next performance (Jim Malcolm) 3.3.2013 Readings: Psalm 63; Isaiah 53 1-8; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9
When I was performing in operas with the WA Opera Company I had the privilege of performing with some amazing singers. In my very first opera, The Abduction from the Ser ... read more
The Elephants in the Room (Revd Neville Watson) 24.2.2013 Readings: 1Kings 18:36-40; Matthew 5:43-48; Matthew 26: 47-52; `Arms and the Man`
From Afghanistan to Timbuktu, from Bali to Baghdad, the suicide bombing that Ashley has dramatised for us this morning is a common occurrence. What we have see ... read more
Who do we belong to? (Karen Sloan) 17.2.2013 Readings: Deuteronomy 26:1-11; Romans 10: 8b-13; Luke 4:1-13
I went last weekend to the concert down at the Leeuwin Winery in the south west. We haven`t been since we lived down there but when I heard who was singing I couldn`t resist. Caro ... read more
Good Shepherds (Revd Marion Millin) 10.2.2013 Readings: 1 Samuel 16:1,4 -13; Psalm 23; John 10:11-18
So what exactly is a Good Shepherd? Have you seen one lately? In our urban, industrial, technological society we don`t get to see too many shepherds or wolves! Or do we?
A Wedding at Cana (Revd Marion Millin) 20.1.2013 Readings: Isaiah 62:1-5; Psalm 36:5-10; 1 Corinthians 12:1-11; John 2:1-11 If you think of this carafe being one litre and the six jars at Cana each being a hundred times that size then it was an awful lot of wine Jesus produced, wasn`t it? - ... read more
Spiritual Presence (Revd David Robinson) 6.1.2013 Readings 1 Peter 1:3-9; John 20: 19-31 My daughter Margaret keeps me well supplied with novels. Recently she gave me one with the title `Judas Child` - it took me quite a long while to read it - the story was a bit complicated but in essence ... read more
A Canvas Rich with Meaning (Karen Sloan) 25.12.2012 Reading: Luke 2:1-14
Art, music and dance are all ways to see the world in creative and imaginative ways. They give us insights in what it is to be human and what we need to live full and complete lives.
Art particularly draws us in. A pa ... read more
Incarnation (Revd Neville Watson) 23.12.2012 Readings: Micah 5:2-5a; Hebrews 10:5-10; Luke 1:39-45
In these weeks before Christmas, I have received a lot of mail referring to the event. One of them was from a jeweller who suggested I `celebrate the joy of giving` by giving to my wife ... read more
A Drink of Water (Karen Sloan) 16.12.2012 Reading: Luke 3:7-18
I have become a big fan of Peter Mayer. He was the song writer you saw a couple of weeks ago if you were here, on the DVD Holy Now. He sings about God, a god found in all of creation, a god who is like a river to i ... read more
Advent Hope (Karen Sloan) 2.12.2012 Readings: Jeremiah 33:14-16;1Thessalonians 3: 9-13; Luke 21:25-36
It might surprise you but I am learning the piano. I didn`t do piano when I was a kid because my mother had a negative response to it from her childhood, so I took it up just b ... read more
A Pathway to Blessing (Terry Quinn) 25.11.2012 Readings: Deuteronomy 4: 1-12; 1 Thessalonians 2: 1-8; Matthew 22: 34-46
Today’s reading from the last chapter of the Book of Deuteronomy is about the death of Moses. He went up a high mountain and saw the entire country God had promised t ... read more
Love God - How in God`s name? (Jim Malcolm) 4.11.2012 Reading: Mark 12:28-34 From the Gospels we see that some of the people talking to Jesus seemed to focus on commandments, on rules, on a list of laws that must be complied with.
I`ve noted four different occasions where there are stories ab ... read more
Are we also blind? (Revd Neville Watson) 28.10.2012 Reading: Mark 10: 46-52 Karen commented last week on my lack of interest in novels. She is both right and wrong at the same time. It is true that I cannot remember the last novel I read. And I concede that some of the great thinkers of our d ... read more
Transforming Love (Karen Sloan) 21.10.2012 Reading: Mark 10: 35-45
It`s funny that as we age we find that we also mellow. These days Nev and I wouldn`t strongly disagree very often. He is after all much older than me! However there is one thing that we don`t really see eye to eye on. ... read more
God, Climate and Environment (Dr Richard Smith) 7.10.2012 Readings: Genesis 1:1-2, 26-31. 2:1-3; Luke 12:16-31
`In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth`. This portrays creation as a past event. Yet time progresses and theories advance and from a modern perspective we should read it as ... read more
Grassroots Revolution (Karen Sloan) 30.9.2012 Readings: Esther 7:1-6,9-10,9:20-22; James 5:13-20; Mark 9:38-50
I was overwhelmed the other day, while heading to work, to hear that Burma`s democracy leader and Nobel peace prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi was being awarded one of America`s h ... read more
The Getting of Wisdom (Karen Sloan) 23.9.2012 Readings: Proverbs 31:10-31; James 3:13-4:3,7-8a; Mark 9:30-37
I was sitting at my computer the other day, preparing the service, looking for some pearls of wisdom.
I frankly was feeling slightly overwhelmed and marginally inadequate for ... read more
Who do you say that I am? (Karen Sloan) 16.9.2012 Reading: Mark 8:27-38 I spent last week away in Sydney listening to John Dominic Crossan, a highly regarded New Testament scholar and theologian, talk about the parables of Jesus. Apart from coming home to find the dog needing an operation and ... read more
Song of Life (Terry Quinn) 2.9.2012 Readings: Song of Songs 2, 8-13; James 1, 17-27, Mark 7, 1-8, 14-15, 21-23.
I wonder what your favourite Beatles song is: I wanna hold your hand? She loves you? Yesterday? Paul McCartney is a great song writer. Do you kno ... read more
Where else would we go? (Revd Neville Watson) 26.8.2012 Reading: John 6: 66-69
Hang on to your hats and fasten your safety belts. It`s going to be a rough ride for all of us this morning– and, if I don`t say something that offends you today, then I`ve failed this magnificent piece of scripture. ... read more
Imitating Christ in both words and actions (Matthew Sloan) 12.8.2012
Readings: Ephesians 4: 25 - 5: 2 `Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust..` Lance Se ... read more
Need and Greed (Revd David Robinson) 5.8.2012 Readings II Samuel 11: 26- 12a; John 6: 24-35 The reading from John`s Gospel is a follow on from last Sunday`s story about the feeding of the 5000. The story is well known as are the arguments about what really happened - did Jesus perfor ... read more
Song of Life (Terry Quinn) 22.7.2012 Readings: Song of Songs 2, 8-13; James 1, 17-27, Mark 7, 1-8, 14-15, 21-23. I wonder what your favourite Beatles song is: I wanna hold your hand? She loves you? Yesterday? Paul McCartney is a great song writer. Do you kno ... read more
Hogfather (Revd Marion Millin) 8.7.2012 Readings: 2 Samuel 5:1–5, 9–10; Mark 6:1–13 8 July 2012
INTRODUCTION TO THEME
Many years ago the great theologian Karl Barth advised his students to Take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers ... read more
Choices (Karen Sloan) 1.7.2012 Reading: Mark 5:21-43
Today I want to talk about choices. We make them every day, from what we eat to where we work to whom we marry. We can`t even go into the supermarket without having to make at least 50 decisions on what to buy as there a ... read more
The Man from God`s Tomorrow (Revd Neville Watson) 24.6.2012 Reading: Mark 4:35-41 l clearly remember my first afternoon in Tiberias on Lake Galilee. Bernadette and I had booked into the Guest House on the lake side when I heard a noise like a train rushing past. My actual words were, `What on earth is ... read more
The Mustard Seed (Karen Sloan) 17.6.2012 Readings: 2 Cor 5:6-10,14-17; Mark 4:26-34 I love the radio. Particularly I love Radio National. No matter what time of the day or night it always has something interesting being talked about, or someone amazing being interviewed. I love the g ... read more
Pentecost 2012 (Karen Sloan) 27.5.2012 Readings: Acts 2:1-21; John 15: 26-27 and 16: 4b-15
I have two boys, one 19 and one 15, who are forever playing their music in my car, a travesty. After one drive, when my head was full of rap and rock, I played with the radio and discovered ... read more
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