2005

SUNDAY 2 JANUARY 2005 Jeremiah 31: 7-14; John 1: 1-18 The images on our television screens and in our newspapers over the past week, together with the information given and stories told, more»

SUNDAY 9 JANUARY 2005 What I am speaking about this morning was part of the series here at St Luke's late last year entitled “Is the Liberal Church Dying – or is it already dead?” more»

SUNDAY 16 JANUARY 2005 Isaiah 49: 1 - 7; John 1: 29 - 42 At a service of baptism One of the most popular works of fiction at the moment is The Da Vinci Code. I had vaguely heard about it more»

SUNDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2005 : First Sunday in Lent Five Foundations for a liberal / progressive Christian faith 1. Humanity Readings for First Sunday in Lent: Genesis 2: 15-17; 3: 1-7 & more»

SUNDAY 6 FEBRUARY 2005 Waitangi Day ?± 2005 In a couple of weeks' time I??m taking part in a workshop with students from the Eastern Mennonite University of Pennsylvania, who are doing more»

SUNDAY 23 JANUARY 2005 Matthew 4:12 -23 A service of Prayer in the style of the Taize Community This morning's reading from Matthew's Gospel marks the beginning of Jesus' public ministry. more»

SUNDAY 13 MARCH 2005 : Fifth Sunday in Lent Five Foundations for a liberal / progressive Christian faith 5. A perspective on prayer Something we could say with some confidence and little more»

SUNDAY 22 MAY 2005 ?± Trinity Sunday Reflection on Psalm 8 during a Taiz?à-style prayer service Having had most of the people working around me this past week sniffing and sneezing, blowing their more»

SUNDAY 20 MARCH 2005 : Palm Sunday / Passion Sunday Matthew 21: 1-11; Philippians 2: 5-11; Matthew 27: 11-54 It was almost 40 years ago that I was first really faced with trying to make more»

25 MARCH 2005 : GOOD FRIDAY Last Sunday I read a large portion of the Passion narrative as Matthew’s gospel records it. This morning, a portion of the Passion narrative as John’s more»

SUNDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2005 : Third Sunday in Lent Five Foundations for a liberal / progressive Christian faith 3. A perspective on Jesus of Nazareth Two weeks ago I spoke about a perspective more»

SUNDAY 6TH MARCH 2005 : Fourth Sunday in Lent Five Foundations for a liberal / progressive Christian faith 4. The Bible It used to be that divisions between Christians were more»

SUNDAY 3 APRIL 2005 : The Second Sunday of Easter Acts 2: 14a, 22-32; John 20: 19-31 My Christian faith was forged in a suburban Wellington Presbyterian church. Inevitably, I was influenced more»

SUNDAY 27 MARCH 2005 : EASTER DAY Acts 10: 34 – 43; Psalm 118: 1 – 2, 14 – 24; Matthew 28: 1 – 10 The carved wooden Christ figure in the centre of the chancel on Good more»

SUNDAY 17 APRIL 2005 : Fourth Sunday of Easter Acts 2: 42-47; Psalm 23; John 10: 1-10 Some of the earliest Christian artistic representations of Jesus that have been found come from the catacombs more»

SUNDAY 10 APRIL 2005 : Third Sunday of Easter Acts 2: 14a, 36-41; Luke 24: 13-35 I think I owe a small apology to a couple of members of the congregation. It arises from the service of more»

1. The Sagas of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs of Israel   Since May this year (2005), the first reading each Sunday (from the ?´Old?? or ?´First?? Testament, or Hebrew Scriptures) is from more»

SUNDAY 26 JUNE 2005 Genesis 22: 1-14; Matthew 10: 40-42 The story of God testing Abraham by telling him to sacrifice his only son and heir, only to countermand the instruction at the very last more»

SUNDAY 5 JUNE 2005 Genesis 12: 1 - 9; Romans 4: 13 ?± 25 Some years ago I was at a lunch with a group of people from the parish and the conversation, aided as it was with some nice wine, got more»

SUNDAY 15 MAY 2005 : Confirmation Confirmation used to be thought of as the time when someone, usually a young person somewhere in their teens, accepted for themselves the whole package of the more»

SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2005 : Fifth Sunday of Easter; Anzac commemoration Isaiah 52: 7-12; Luke 6: 27-36 I was in my late teens and early twenties when I got to preach my first sermons. The minister of more»

SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER 2005 : Third in Advent Isaiah 61: 1-4, 8-11; John 1: 6-8, 19-28 I was reading the other day about the Cao Dai religion which has some two million followers in Vietnam. It was more»

SUNDAY 3 JULY 2005 Genesis 24: 34-38, 42-49, 58-67; Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 A man wrote to a Sydney newspaper asking why so many people seemed to have difficulties in their marriage, and more»

SUNDAY 12 JUNE 2005 Genesis 18: 1 ?± 15, 21: 1 ?± 7; Mathew 9: 35 ?± 10: 8 Every now and then after the youth group have used their room in the bell tower, somebody forgets to turn off the light. more»

SUNDAY 10 JULY 2005 Genesis 25: 19-34; Romans 8: 1-11 Last Sunday, I commented that the relations between men and women had changed more in the past thirty years than in the previous three more»