Worship Reflections from October 2025
26 October 2025
Even the hard pathways … MUC Fellowship@10, 26 October 2025 Alison Sampson, reflecting on Psalm 65 Back in the 1800’s, a vast swamp and river basin in Toronto were covered over. The wetlands were buried eight metres deep in dirt and gravel so that the city could expand. In the 1920’s, the river itself was re-routed into a concrete channel, so its path could be fixed and the area even more heavily industrialised. Factories poured their waste into the river;…
19 October 2025
Our persistence, God’s justice MUC Fellowship@10, 19 October 2025 Alison Sampson, reflecting on Luke 18:1-8 Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a war on. Authorities were concerned that power stations might be bombed, and with them, the people who lived nearby. So, along with many other children, a little boy was evacuated from his home near the power station at Yallourn, and sent to live in Bendigo. At his new primary school, he sat next to a…
12 October 2025
Planting with the prophet Jeremiah MUC Fellowship@10, 12 October 2025 Alison Sampson, reflecting on Jeremiah 29:1, 4-11 Ten years ago, the scientist Glenn Albrecht coined a new word. He was studying the impact of open-cut coal mining on the people of the Upper Hunter region of NSW. The mines were creating new and horrific scars in the landscape; the power station was polluting water, air and soil; there was persistent drought. As the earth groaned, Albrecht realised that the people…
5 October
INCREASE OUR FAITH! MUC Fellowship@10, 5 October 2025 Alison Sampson, reflecting on Luke 17:5-10 & Lamentations 3:22-23 In the 1900’s, John D. Rockefeller was the richest man in the world. At the peak of his wealth, he was asked by a reporter, ‘How much money is enough?’ To this he famously replied, ‘Just a little bit more!’ If only I had a bit more money, says the rich man, then I’d relax. I’d be able to slow down and take…