Baptism
I have vivid memories of two very different baptisms. The first took place on a warm sunny blue-sky day early on a Sunday morning. I had discovered th [...]
The other day I was talking to a member of our congregation at St John’s about what we might do when the restrictions ease and enable us to gather aga [...]
The gradual easing of restriction has coincided with warmer spring weather, and it's great to see people enjoying the parklands of our city, and relis [...]
In my mid-teens I had the privilege of going on a ‘safari’ into the outback – way up to Tibooburra in the north west corner of NSW. We went to build a [...]
Often in the early morning I walk down to Queens Park for exercise and pass the various memorials to Burke and Wills who camped there on the first leg [...]
This Sunday our Samoan Youth are taking the service at St Johns. It is also ‘Father’s Day’ which is an important celebration particularly in the Samoa [...]
One of the big challenges in our lives is learning how to respond when things don’t go the way we had hoped. It could be as simple as a recipe not tur [...]
What a strange new world we live in, as we enter a more restricted phase of lockdown as our State Government urgently beefs up its measures to contain [...]
Last week I wrote about Jacob and the way God began to work in him to lead him toward a more centred and compassionate life – dragging him out of the [...]
Our reading from the book of Genesis this week holds before us a poignant image of loneliness, and deep isolation. Maybe for the first time in his lif [...]