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More than a memory Jesus answered [Judas (not Iscariot)], “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love me does not keep my words. And the word that you hear is not mine [...]

On Thursday of last week, the church celebrated the Ascension of Jesus. As the account was read from the Acts of the Apostles, we were there with the disciples at the moment Jesus finally left them. And he left them staring up into space. After Jesus himself had disappeared into the clouds, they were still [...]

Life with God has Begun Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb”. And he carried me away in the Spirit to a great, high mountain, and showed [...]

Among the wolves that’s for sure Then came the Feast of Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon’s Colonnade. The Jews gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly”. Jesus answered, “I did tell [...]

The Resurrection Reality – Life has just got a lot more complicated John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, [...]

MAUNDY THURSDAY We are what we eat For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. (Jeremiah [...]

Skit: Not Quite What I Expected “I didn’t expect this!” When we lived in Mount Isa, our eldest three children met the then prime minister, Bob Hawke. They met him, shook hands, talked to him, got his autograph, and came back to us saying, ‘Dad, he’s so short!’. The PM wasn’t what they expected. Sometimes [...]

The Handout Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that [...]

The Gracious Father Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Let’s hear our Gospel today from the Gospel according to St Luke the 15th chapter with explanations and it is the well known account of – well, that’s interesting – who is this parable really about? Let us [...]