Worship Reflections from October 2024
27 October 2024
REFLECTION Don’t let your sight get in the way of your vision! This is Mark’s story about a blind man called Bartimeus. I guess this resonates with me because, as an artist, my sight has always been incredibly important to me. A couple of years ago I was introduced to a book about another blind man. The book is “Thunder Dog” by Michael Hingson. This is a man, blind since birth, whose parents determined that they would give him the…
20 October 2024
Baptism Illustration: What is the most important or defining moment of your life? I love cricket. In my last years I had gravitated to being the keeper. This one week I arrived five minutes late and got told I was now the captain. Now this was not good news because we had not won a game as a team in eighteen months. Last season we once scored 11 runs all out and on another occasion a team scored 518 with one…
13 October 2024
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy (Spike Milligan) Mark 10:17-31 As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up and knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 18Jesus said to him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. 19You know the commandments: “You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You shall not steal; You shall…
6 October 2024
Marriage: God’s Solution to Loneliness, Lust and Laundry (Mark 10:2-16) 2 Some Pharisees came, and to test him they asked, ‘Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?’ 3He answered them, ‘What did Moses command you?’ 4They said, ‘Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of dismissal and to divorce her.’ 5But Jesus said to them, ‘Because of your hardness of heart he wrote this commandment for you. 6But from the beginning of creation, “God made them male and female.” 7“For this reason a…
1 and 8 September
A new creation story Rev John Power Let’s start at the very beginning. A very good place to start. – Maria, The sound of music. Creation stories appear in most religious traditions on Earth. They play a very importantrole in any meaning system as they usually set the groundwork for the rest of thenarrative. They also form a premise upon which later theological propositions aredeveloped, set up a tension that is to be resolved and suggest an orientation of humanity to the…