Words for the way– Easter Sunday 2022

The refelection was preached face to face and on line to the Corgregation of St Ninian’s Uniting Church, Lyneham, ACT (Canberra) Mark 16:1-20; Luke 24:25ff; Romans 8:38ff Who will Roll the Stone Away? If you listen carefully to the resurrection accounts there is one problem, which faces the women on that morning on the first

Words for the way pastoral notes during lockdown – LXVIII: Cannot Believe it!

Preached Live at St Ninian’s Uniting Church, Lyneham ACT, 18 April 2021 Luke 24:36-48 When I started my first job, I used to sit in a garden to have my lunch.  In that garden was a bronze bust on a marble column. The bust was of a man who proposed an idea that had never been

Words for the way pastoral notes during lockdown – LXVII:

An Easter Sunday Kind of Faith John 20:1-18 Today, please allow me to pose a rhetorical question: Of the three key days of Easter, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, and Easter Sunday, in which of these days is the Christian faith anchored? If we consider the answer to be Good Friday, then we have a faith that

Words for the way pastoral notes during lockdown – XXXV: Sooth your grief because there is hope

1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 The very distressing aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic is the deaths of so many people from the disease.  The other evening as we were watching our regular television news service, there was the story of a UK family in Wales that had lost two family members to COVID-19.  The heartrending comment was toward the

Words for the Way VI: Pastoral notes for locked down times -The Road the Emmaus Recognising Christ

The Road the Emmaus Recognising Christ Luke 24:13-35 Have you ever walked past someone you know and failed to recognise them…? I must confess that I have been at times guilty of this.  I seem at times to get into a world of my own thoughts, I may be going through the motions of walking,

Words for the Way V: Pastoral Notes for locked down times. “I doubt it…”

John 20:19-31 When I started my first job it was my custom to sit in a small garden to have my lunch.  In that garden, near where is used to sit, was a bronze bust about life size on a brown granite plinth. The bust was of a man who proposed an idea that at

Words for the Way IV: Pastoral Notes for locked down times. Easter Sunday Who will Roll the Stone Away?

Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24:1-10, John 20 If you listen carefully to the resurrection accounts there is one serious problem, which faces the women on that morning on the first Easter day.  Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?  In the Gospel according to St Mark, (16:3) is the

Our Hope in a Resurrection

       Easter Sermon @ Beechworth / Yackandandah Uniting Churches 2012 Luke 24:1-12; John 201:18 The narrative of the Resurrection for me has always been the most important aspect of my Christian faith. I often return to this fact as a point of reference, as a source of comfort, and a great hope. I