29th March, 2026 (Year A – Palm Sunday) “High Hopes and Deep Hope”
It’s a wild, subversive and glorious scene, full of defiantly high hopes in the face of oppression and threat.
The momentum is unstoppable, and the only question now is: how is Jesus going to make it happen?
Then Sunday’s King will be plotted against, abandoned, denied, arrested, tortured, mocked and end up defeated in a borrowed tomb.
And yet, in the darkest of time, mending and joy happens!
22nd March, 2026 (Year A – Lent 5) “There’s Life in These Old Bones”
In living out our faith, what hope is possible. Can shattered lives be restored, dignity reclaimed and self worth be rediscovered?
Can our society look with outward eyes and love with open arms to see greed replaced by grace, and fear and suspicion replaced by love and trust?
After all, it is God’s kingdom and not ours.
15th March, 2026 (Year A – Lent 4) “The Illumination of God in the Unexpected”
Where is your heart at, that God Spirit can hear your stirring towards His people and His community to recognise that the least and the lost, the overlooked and missed are part of His
plan.
Sometimes the one’s chosen are often the unexpected. That is the nature of God’s Kingdom.
8th March, 2026 (Year A – Lent 3) “Jesus – the Source of all Living Water”
Jesus asks for help from a Samaritan woman. She is symbolic of her people.
For her and Jesus to be in conversation challenges the status quo and breaks 2 taboos.
A Jew talking with a Samaritan, a man initiating conversation with a woman in Public.
The only water she knows is Drinking Water…Jesus offers “Living Water” – the Holy Spirit and eternal life.
1st March, 2026 (Year A – Lent 2) “Walk with Intent”
The Lenten Walk is with the intent to find deeper meaning.
Nicodemus met Jesus in the dead of night and Jesus told him what he needed to hear.
The invitation Jesus gives, is to face our brokenness as there in lies the way to being led to God’s healing.
The path to healing often unfolds by weird and unexplainable ways.
22nd February, 2026 (Year A – Lent 1) “Moses & the Job of Cosmic Abundance”
In the text, Moses has moved out of the Empire and is in the wilderness with his people living in tents.
God provides to their worried minds about the need of sustenance, a rain of bread comes in the morning, so their bellies have food.
He assures them hoarding of food is not needed. Abundance in scripture is about how life is organised so that all have enough.
15th February, 2026 (Year A – Transfiguration of Jesus) “The Brickmakers & God with us on the Job”
God takes note of brick quotas. God takes note of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s).
God takes notice when workers are shamed as “lazy” inside systems designed to break them.
Work life and faith life are not separate. Faithfulness is often smaller and more local and God takes notice.
8th February, 2026 (Year A – Epiphany 5) “The Midwives & Liberation on the Job”
The midwives teach us that liberation does not begin with a burning bush.
It begins when ordinary people decide that obedience to God sets limits on what the state, boss, or the system can ask of them.
It tells us to train our attention, to help us recognise what faithfulness looks like when it shows up quietly without applause.
1st February, 2026 (Year A – Epiphany 4) “Joseph and His Imperial Con Job”
When we read Exodus, we are hearing a memory of ancient oppression, told by a community living under later empires, trying to learn how God’s people survive, resist, and stay human inside
someone else’s system.
This story is still around in our modern day – money, assets and land centralized for the rich and their enablers.
Joseph’s story is much more than a Disney production.
