Sermon: 20th Sunday after Pentecost 10th October 2021 Readings: Job 23:1-9     Psalm 22:1-15      Hebrews 4:12-16      Mark 10:17-31 When John and I were preparing to emigrate to Australia, we had to sell our house which we had lived in for over forty-one years.  As you can imagine, we had collected quite a lot of ‘stuff’ in that…

11.10.20.     19th Sunday after Pentecost Exodus 32:1-14      Psalm 106:1-6, 20-24      Philippians 4     Matthew 22:1-14 In today’s Gospel reading from Matthew, Jesus tells the parable of The Wedding Banquet.    A King sends out invitations to lots of important people to come to his Son’s wedding.    He wants them to put on their finest…

Readings:   Exodus 17:1-7.    Philippians 2.    Matthew 21:23-32 I think it is safe to say that we live in very challenging times and throughout the Covid-19 pandemic of the last few months we have seen the Federal and all the State governments exercise their authority by implementing rules that they say are there to protect us all and are for…

Readings: Genesis 29:15-28, Romans 8: 26-39, Matthew 13:44-58 Hidden within the walls of our homes are electricity cables.  We cannot see the electricity they provide, but at the flick of a switch we can turn darkness to light, produce heat to warm ourselves, cook our food, power our televisions and charge our mobile phones.   We may not think about electricity very…