Blame When something goes wrong people often look for someone else to blame. The last person we want to blame is usually ourselves. We often blame others We want to be able to point our finger at someone and say …

Romans 9   Romans Chapter 9 raises some big questions for us. It provides some very important answers – although I suspect some of us won’t find the answers easy or particularly satisfying. It’s a very important passage for each …

1. Recapping the story When you are watching a TV series on Netflix and you go from one episode to the next or from one season to the next you sometimes get a recap of the story thus far. The …

Ephesians 1:15-23   What prompts prayer for you? This is the last week in a short series on prayer. We’ve spent two weeks learning to pray from Jesus – reflecting on his prayer for us in John 17, and then …

Luke 11:1-4 & Matthew 6:9-13   Pandemics & Prayer   “Teach us to pray…” (Luke 11:1 ff.)   The Orientation or Perspective of Prayer – “Our Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 6.9)   The Family Prayer of the children …

Neglecting the important People often neglect things that we know are important to be doing. We know we should be doing them, but we just don’t make the time to do them. Changing the batteries We know that we’re supposed …

Great announcements Today I want to look with you at what is arguably perhaps the greatest announcement that has ever been made in this world. It is found at the end of the reading that was read for us just …

Mark 15:16-41 Remembering ‘good’ Friday…? Recently I’ve been working through my digital library of photos, trying to reduce it down from 50,000+ photos to something a little more reasonable. I got into photography about 12 years ago, with my first …

Introduction – Miscarriage of Justice In 1975 at the age of 19 Ricky Jackson was convicted of a murder that he didn’t commit. He was accused and subsequently found guilty of killing a man named Harold Franks outside a neighbourhood …

Mark 14,27-52   Overconfident I’ve been skiing twice in my life. Two half days on the slopes. The first time, at Mt Hotham in Victoria, I was over-confident. I had assumed I’d be able to pop the skis on and …