Scapegoats, collective violence and working with Spirit to do what we can…

In this audio form of worship Rev Dr Sally Douglas introduces a Pentecost Season Table Liturgy and invites us to participate at home in this worship over a meal. See the PDF of the Table Liturgy below. The audio worship does not include a full service, because we are all invited to utilise this Table Liturgy. Instead, the audio includes the bible readings for the day, and a reflection on the reading from Exodus about these brave midwives doing what they can and on Paul's call to take our gifts seriously.

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Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 16 August.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 16 August available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. 

This week, as we again engage with the ancient story of Joseph and his brothers in Genesis 45.1-15, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to reflect on God, power and the problem of suffering. Beyond the false paradigms of thinking God causes suffering or that God is impotent to respond to suffering, we dive deeply to reflect on who, and how, God is involved in suffering in the light of Christ Jesus.

Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 9 August.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 9 August available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, as we engage with the ancient story of Joseph and his brothers in Genesis 37.1-4, 12-28, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to reflect on the narratives of our families and culture, and the ways in which God’s dreamings for us might call us into a bigger perspective.

Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 2 August.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 2 August available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, as we reflect on the feeding of the multitudes in Matthew 14.13-21 in the midst of COVID-19, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into thinking about 'end times' (the theological word for this is eschatology). We explore how might we might think of end times if we believe that in Jesus we discover divine reality.

Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 26 July.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 26 July available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

In this audio form of worship Rev Dr Sally Douglas introduces a Pentecost Season Table Liturgy and invites us to participate at home in this worship over a meal. Download the PDF of the Table Liturgy we will use in worship. The audio worship does not include a full service, because we are all invited to utilise this Table Liturgy. Instead, the audio includes the bible readings for the day, and a reflection on the reading from Romans 8 focused on the question of prayer and desolation.

Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 19 July.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 19 July available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, our seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to engage in contemplative Christian worship. We explore Psalm 139.1-14, 23-24 through the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, sacred reading.  We also discuss how we do not to come to the bible with a neutral lens – instead we come to the bible already shaped by our experiences and what we have been taught about God – and this influences how we actually hear sacred text.

Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 12 July.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 12 July available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, our sixth Sunday after Pentecost, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to engage in contemplative Christian worship. We explore Matthew 13.1-9 through the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, sacred reading.

Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 5 July.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 5 July available on the Richmond Unting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, our fifth Sunday after Pentecost, we are invited to explore Matthew 11 and dive deeply into John the Baptist’s crisis of faith and how Jesus responds. In this text we discover that here Jesus images himself as Woman Wisdom, the Female Divine figure from Jewish traditions, as he defends his actions of feasting with, and befriending, sinners.

Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 28 June.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 28 June available on the Richmond Unting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own..

In this audio form of worship Rev Dr Sally Douglas introduces a Table Liturgy for the Season of Pentecost and invites us to participate in this worship over a meal. See the PDF of the Table Liturgy below. This week's audio worship does not include a full service, because we are all invited to utilise this Table Liturgy. Instead, the audio includes the bible readings for the day, and a reflection on the reading from Matthew 10.40-42.

Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship for Sunday 21 June.

We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings for 21 June available on the Richmond Unting Church website . You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, our second Sunday after Pentecost, we are invited to dive into the difficult story of Sarah and Hagar in Genesis 21. We explore issues of slavery, abuse, racism and sexism and examine how we are called to approach the bible faithfully as Christians. The stereotype that Christians are called to take the bible literally is disrupted and we engage with earliest church understandings of Jesus (and not the bible) as the Word of God.