Proclamation!

Proclamation! For the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 8 September 2024
Reverend Shelley McVea takes us through a gospel story where Jesus does an unlikely thing, he meets a woman whom he does not want to heal.  He has gone to a remote place to take some time away from his ministry.  But this woman is in despair over her daughter’s illness, and she begs Jesus for healing.  

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Proclamation! For the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 1 September 2024

Who Do You Say I Am? 

Today we welcome a special guest preacher, David Alenskis, who engages with Mark’s gospel and asks, how does Jesus ask those around him to re-examine their values?  Jesus is asked why he lets his disciples eat without washing their hands in the properly designated way.  Jesus challenges the traditions of the ancestors and focuses on the inner life of a person, “what comes out of us is more important than what goes into us.” 

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Proclamation! For the 12th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 11 August 2024
While Reverend Shelley enjoys a summer break, we are joined today by the Reverend Catherine Sider Hamilton.  Reverend Catherine tells us the story of an uprising of a son against his own father, and the battle in which that son, Absalom, was killed.  Even though it was an uprising against his own leadership, David wept and cried aloud, “O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom, my son, my son!”

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Proclamation! For the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 28 July 2024
While Reverend Shelley enjoys a summer break, Warden Gillian Eley takes to the pulpit to share an inspirational message on the grounding and deepening power of prayer.  In Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (3:14-21), Gillian uncovers a love letter to a community that Paul is urging to be transformed through the power of prayer.  Paul describes how he kneels when he prays because he is overwhelmed and humbled in the presence of the love of Christ.

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Proclamation! For the 7th Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 7 July 2024

Boast of my Weaknesses
Despite the many challenges that Paul faced, Reverend Shelley McVea explains how Paul could still say that he will “boast of his weaknesses” because he experienced the power  of God to transform his sufferings and enabling him to be content.  

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Proclamation! For the fourth Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday 16 June 2024
Walking by Faith
Today Reverend Shelley McVea ponders what it means to walk ‘by faith and not by sight’.  Does it mean that we accept beliefs without truly thinking about what we believe and that we may not have a handle on what’s really going on in the world.  But Shelley doesn’t think that is the case.  Many of us experience the harsh realities of this life:  even so, we can navigate our journey through the real world using our faith in Jesus to guide us with compassion and mercy.  

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Proclamation! For the second Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday 9 June 2024
Familes and Forgiveness 

Today Reverend Shelley McVea reminds us that we all come from families, some better, some worse, and even Jesus had a family.  We know of his birth to Joseph and Mary, and of Jesus’ presentation to the synagogue in his youth, but most of what we know about Jesus comes from the time when he was not with his family.  Most of what we know about Jesus comes from the time when he travelled with his apostles and preached a revolutionary message for the forgiveness of sins. 

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Proclamation! For the first Sunday in Ordinary Time, Sunday 2 June 2024
The Lord Seaches and Will Find Us

Today Reverend Shelley McVea reflects on Psalm 139:  a prayer to God that expresses the awesomeness of God.   As we seek for God, God also searches for us, knows who we are, and will find us, no matter where we are.  

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Proclamation! For Trinity Sunday, 26 May 2024
Reverend Shelley McVea explores the mystery of the Trinity: there is one God, but that God exists three dimensions: Heavenly God, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit.  The Trinity is mirrored in our human experience of relationships: our connection to God, our connections to others, and to ourselves.  

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Proclamation! For Pentecost Sunday, 19 May 2024
The Intense Fire of the Holy Spirit
Guest preacher James Beck joins us today for a sermon that brings insight to the extraordinary events of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit inflamed the Apostles and enabled them to speak so that listeners of all different languages could comprehend them.   In effect, the Holy Spirit broke down the barrier that had been erected with the tower of Babel, which symbolized the ways that we no longer understand or empathize with each other.  

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