Return to life
Easter Day reflections Pulling the lens wider The resurrection of Jesus is told often with a sense of immediacy – whiz – bang – blinding light and earth-shattering suddenness [...]
Returning. Ash Wednesday
Returning Ash Wednesday Ritual and Reflection By Sarah Agnew, forChrist Church Uniting, Wayville On Kaurna Country, with gratitude and respect. We share in the Uniting Church’s commitment to healing and [...]
Liturgy for the General Secretary
The National Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia appoints a General Secretary to help facilitate the administration, mission, and governance of the church's national work. My friend, Andrew Johnson, has [...]
Guiding your people through Advent
I have been creating liturgies for, and retelling the stories of, Advent and Christmas for many years now, and I would like to share that creativity with you. Perhaps you'll use a prayer [...]
God’s Dream: to be one is to be diverse
Pentecost reflection But first, the prayers Call to Worship & Commissioning Invocation Prayer of our humanity Genesis 11:1–9 (with Romans 8:14–17 and Acts 2:1–21) [...]
One scene at a time
The walk with Jesus to the cross Wednesday. It's 8:00 pm. I've just come home, put my PJs on, heated dinner and popped the top of a beer. This is [...]
A time for silence
Reflection for Transfiguration Sunday 2 Kings 2:1–12; Mark 9:2–9; Psalm 50:1–6 Sometimes stories come like unexpected guests, a knock on the door, hi! I’ve come to visit – oh, [...]
Being present to where you are
Reflections from Welsey Uniting Church, Forrest today Part One: Are we the seed, planted in the dark? Genesis 37:1–4, 12–28 We are jealous (Genesis 37:1–4, 12–28) the brothers We are jealous, [...]
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God still calls: despite doubt, insecurity, brokenness.
on Jer 1:4–10 and Luke 13:10–17, for Wesley Uniting Church Canberra, 25 August 2019 My, but we can get in God’s way, can’t we? ‘Not today, God, there are rules we cannot break.’ ‘Not [...]
Who are we, Community of Christ?
The Stories: Acts 16:16-34 and John 17:20-26 I want to begin with the story in Acts; the first part of the story, which we often skip over for the sensational miracle in the jail [...]
