29th June 2025 (Year C – Pentecost 3) “Fruit of The Spirit – Pulling the Weeds”
To grow our own food we need a garden of good soil, free of weeds and rubbish.
To grow the fruits of The Spirit we need to constantly evaluate our words and acts.
We need to work with God to evaluate what is sinful (bad) and what is good.
We need to be sure we are not tricked by flowers that are actually weeds!
22nd June 2025 (Year C – UCA Anniversary) “Don’t Lose the Ting!”
‘Oneness’ – is creating a faith where it is ok to be yourself and be affirmed. The message of Jesus is inclusiveness.
Some may see “Oneness” as divisive, the message of Jesus is that it is inclusive.
The ‘Oneness’ of God can reach out to all people – need to have room for everyone in our community.
‘Oneness is really important in ourselves, our church, our community for love to be shared and everyone openly welcomed.
15th June 2025 (Year C – Trinity Sunday) “An Invitation to Unity”
The 3 persons of the Trinity are in perfect relationship, what one has, they all have, one in purpose, one in will.
God operates in a way that is completely unselfish, 3 persons but one being, so as to pour out God’s love and justice.
The God we worship, the trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit is a God of hope, love, forgiveness and justice.
8th June 2025 (Year C – Pentecost) “What a Story”
The disciples come together praying. God comes and blows them away.
Turns them inside out and fills them with life.
The Pentecost story reverses what happened at Babel.
When the festival was over, they went back to their places of origin and took the God of Unity to others.
1st June 2025 (Year C – Easter 7) “Saved”
Paul and Silas are in jail for doing a good deed, an earthquake strikes!
The Jailer – a gentile pagan, running a Roman Jail House and who arranges for floggings, is terrified.
The fearful Jailer, recognizes he needs to find a way out of the mess, and sees what Paul and Silas have as an answer.
He yields to putting his whole trust in Jesus and his whole life turns around.
25th May 2025 (Year C – Easter 6) “Do You Want to be Made Well”
Jesus said, “Do you want to be made well?” Of course he did after being by the pool for 38 years!
When the time came he simply did as Jesus asked him … and was made well and was so happy.
The trouble was – it was healing on the Sabbath! The Jewish leaders were not happy!
Do we, in a moment of another’s moment of grace and joy, sometimes react negatively, like those leaders?
18th May 2025 (Year C – Easter 5) “Who Could Stand in God’s Way”
The Pakistani lady, Jamila, talked of in this message, did not focus on our differences.
We have a choice, to hold onto our assumptions, or to embrace new and deeper relationships.
Peter’s vision calls us to step beyond our boundaries and brace new relationships.
God’s grace has no boundaries.
11th May 2025 (Year C – Easter 4) “Resurrection – Our Story”
Peter prays over Tabitha and she is given new life and raised up.
Resurrection is a call to rise, get up, stand up tall, and come out.
Resurrection is to be called from all that inhibits us, being raised to new heights.
Called to embrace ‘our story’, so we can be raised to a greater and more profound reality.
4th May 2025 (Year C – Easter 3) “Peter, Do You Love Me?”
Following the resurrection the disciples were ‘shell-shocked’ and wondered what they might now do with their lives.
Fishing was something they knew. Jesus re-met them there and asked if they loved Him more than life as fisherman?
Jesus gave Peter a mission. Jesus keeps coming back to us and asks us to prove our love by serving Him.
