Peter
Luke 5:1-11 | John 21:4-8, 15-19 This week we begin a new series that will take us up to the end of November and the beginning of advent (yes, it’s that time of the year already) – learning from the followers of Jesus. In many ways, discipleship is the most basic description of our calling, […]
Faith and Mental Health
Colossians 3:12-17 So today we come to the last in our series on “Faith in Real Life” – over the past few weeks we’ve looked at how our faith might touch the way we think about family, about decision making, about how we respond to fear, how and why we work for justice, what our […]
Faith and Community
Hebrews 10:19-25 The fifth in our series on faith in real life bring us to the role of community in the Christian life.
Faith and Justice
Isaiah 58:1-9a | Luke 4:16-19 This time last year we were just kicking off a five week series on “Justice, the public face of love”. Over those weeks we explored freedom from slavery, gender justice, environmental justice, economic justice, and racial justice.
Faith and Fear
1 John 4:13-21 Faith and real life. Two weeks ago we looked at how our faith might influence the way we look at that most basic of human institutions, the family, and then last week we explored how our faith might inform our decision making
Faith and Decisions
Proverbs 1:1-7 So today is the second in our series on Faith in real life, questions about how our faith in Jesus Christ, our reading of the scriptures, our membership together in the Kingdom of God, touches matters of day to day living.
Faith and Family
Genesis 1:18-22 | Ephesians 1:3-6 | Mark 3:31-35 Today we start a new series of Sundays in which we’re going to be looking at faith in real life
To whom would we go?
John 6:56-69 While we’ve been looking at the letter to the Church in Ephesus, the gospel readings in the lectionary have been going through a chunk of John’s gospel that is all built around the imagery of bread
Who are we: engaged in the struggle
Ephesians 6:10-20 So we come to the final chapter of the book of Ephesians, and to this well known piece of imagery, the armour of God.
Who are we: living in the light
Ephesians 5:15-27 You have no idea how tempting it is, when you have committed yourself to preaching one week on each chapter of the book of Ephesians, to choose the first half of chapter 5 instead of the second.
Who are we: equipped to be one
Ephesians 4:1-16 Over the past three weeks we’ve been reflecting on the first half of Paul’s letter to the early Church in Ephesus, and what it has to say to us about who we, the modern day Church in Roseville, are.
Who are we: making known the mystery
Ephesians 3:7-21 Today’s reading from Ephesians brings us to the end of the first half of the letter. Literally, given that it’s the third chapter out of six, but more importantly, in terms of the structure, the layout, of the book.
Who are we: reconciled in Christ
Ephesians 2:11-22 Having had just over a week now to reflect upon the decisions – and especially, the decision on same sex marriage – taken by the Uniting Church National Assembly in Melbourne, I have to say that I’m really proud to be part of the Uniting Church right now.
Who are we: the fulness of Christ
Ephesians 1:15-23 So today we begin a series of six weeks during which we’re going to be looking at Pauls letter to the Church in Ephesus, one of the many Churches that he founded during his great missionary journeys around the ancient world.
More than this
Isaiah 65:1-12 | Revelation 21:1-4 And so we come to the end of our series on the book of Isaiah, with one of the closing passages of the book; one not directly quoted by the New Testament authors, but clearly influential in their thinking.