(Luke 18.15-30) Pentecost 2027 October 2019 – © Neil Millar If you’re a gardener, chances are you’ll know about this product [container of Seasol]. It’s called Seasol, it’s a seaweed extract made from the bull kelp that washes up on the beaches of King Island, Tasmania, and it’s a great tonic for plants – especially … [Read more…]
(Luke 18.1-14) ( Pentecost 19) 20 October 2019 – © Neil Millar So, what is it that hinders your praying? If we had a congregational discussion about this, I imagine there’d be various issues raised: busyness; distraction; disappointment; frustration; not sure how or what to pray; not sure if God hears my prayers; or if … [Read more…]
(Luke 17: 11-19) ( Pentecost 18)13 October 2019 © Neil Millar In recent years, I’ve heard and become interested in the concept of ‘liminal space’ and the associated notion of ‘liminality’. A liminal space is a transitional or in-between place, an in-between time. Corridors, staircases, ruins, alleyways, bridges and crossroads are examples of in-between places. … [Read more…]
(Luke 12. 22-34) 5 October 2019 – © Sarah Bachelard Over the last few weeks at St Ninian’s, we’ve been observing the Season of Creation and the theme of care for the natural world. We’ve explored our relationship to oceans, trees and the cosmos – focusing not just on the need to solve particular environmental … [Read more…]
(Luke 16:19-31) (Acts 10:9-28, 34-35) Social Justice Sunday29 September, 2019 – Judith Shaw Today St Ninians is joining with many other churches throughout Australia celebrating Social Justice Sunday, focussing on the theme “Making it Real: Genuine human encounter in our digital world”. Your Social Action Group would like to share some thoughts on the Digital … [Read more…]
(Psalm 19.1-6 & Colossians 1.15-20) Creation 4 – Cosmos Sunday 22 September 2019 – © Neil Millar How can Christianity call itself catholic if the universe itself is left out? wrote French philosopher and teacher Simone Weil (1959:116) some 7o years ago. And for Weil, catholic spelt with a small ‘c’ meant universal. In other … [Read more…]
15 September, 2019© Ann Munro ‘I should like to know, God’s dear Saint, what work you did or what virtue you manifested that pleased Christ so much…I have no doubt that you had some special quality in regard to which none was found like you, and it is that quality I propose to investigate…Open the … [Read more…]
(Genesis 1.9-13, 20-25 & Luke 13.18-19) Creation 2 8 September 2019 – © Neil Millar Magpie, magpie, dive on me,Swoop down from your holy tree;As I pass the flower bedStick your beak into my head.Magpie, magpie, make a hole,Through my head into my soul:As I pass beneath the sunBring my troubled head undone.Magpie, magpie it … [Read more…]
(Genesis 1.1-10) Creation 1 – Oceans1 September 2019 – ©Neil Millar In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep, while a wind from God swept over the face of the waters. You know, in all my years of … [Read more…]
(Luke 13.10-21) (Pentecost 11) 25 August 2019 – ©Neil Millar Here we are this morning reading about another round of Sabbath-day shenanigans. In the blue corner, weighing in at 72kgs, we have Jesus of Nazareth, teaching in the synagogue, noticing and healing a woman, long burdened by crippling infirmity. And in the red corner, weighing … [Read more…]