29th December 2024 (Year C – Christmas 1) “Looking for Jesus”
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29th December 2024 (Year C – Christmas 1) “Looking for Jesus”

BySharon Dennis

Jesus is increasing in wisdom by asking and listening and even amazes his elders!

It is frustrating when we have to call on one much younger, to teach us about computers!

However, there are also times when the wisdom and experience of having lived a bit of life is both important and valued.

The acronym for TEAM: ” Together Everyone Achieves More”, opens us to possibilities and to actively encouraging each other.

22nd December 2024 (Year C – Advent 4) “Women’s Business”
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22nd December 2024 (Year C – Advent 4) “Women’s Business”

BySharon Dennis

Being women, Mary and Elizabeth would have not been more than ‘homemakers’ in the culture of that day.

Mary sang a song which presented a new set of values – she was referring to what Jesus would do in His later Ministry.

In 2024 out culture still thinks of Christmas as being a story about a baby – not about Jesus, who God is and who you and I are invited to be – this is what Mary sang about.

15th December 2024 (Year C – Advent 3) “Not Getting into Hot Water”
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15th December 2024 (Year C – Advent 3) “Not Getting into Hot Water”

BySharon Dennis

In Biblical times it was common for water to be used for cleansing (not just washing).

John did it differently when he immersed people, baptising in Jesus’s name.

Inviting them to be partners for God and into the warmth of God’s goodness and then taking goodness into the world, for all to partake of.

8th December 2024 (Year C – Advent 2) “Road works in the Desert”
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8th December 2024 (Year C – Advent 2) “Road works in the Desert”

BySharon Dennis

John was God’s bulldozer! He prepared a road in the wilderness.

God chooses unlikely people in unlikely places to bring about his purposes.

‘Deserts’ for many people are very different places – places with guilt, disappointment, loss.

The way out of deserts is repentance then forgiveness, to bring about Grace and Peace.

1st December 2024 (Year C – Advent 1) “Living out a Commitment to Creating The Kingdom of God”
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1st December 2024 (Year C – Advent 1) “Living out a Commitment to Creating The Kingdom of God”

BySharon Dennis

Jesus came into the world as the ‘upside down’ king – his kingdom is not of this world.

To commit to following Jesus is not to go along the pathway of power, authority or prestige.

Rather to relate with humility, through compassion, holding fast to a righteous way of living. The turmoil of the heavens was a sign that a new creation was in the making.

In Christ’s birth God proclaimed that the reality of peace had dawned on earth.

The proclamation of peace is costly…even Jesus and his parents became political refugees in Egypt.

In the struggle for liberation all must be connected and so we need each other.

9th April April 2023 (Year A Easter Day ) “Earthquakes at Easter”
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9th April April 2023 (Year A Easter Day ) “Earthquakes at Easter”

ByCharles Pope

Easter breaks down racial and cultural barriers and all are included in ‘The Lord has Risen’. In Matthew’s gospel the women become the ‘apostles’ to the Apostle , Women are included in the ‘all people’ to go and tell of the coming of this new event that is now happening.