Authority There are many jokes about St Peter sitting at the gates of heaven, holding his bunch of keys. Here’s one I like: A preacher and a bus driver went to heaven. The bus driver was allocated a beautiful mansion with large rooms. The preacher however, was given only a one-room unit, so she […]
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Pentecost 4C 12 June 2016 St Peter’s Upper Riccarton Galatians 2: 15-21; Luke 7: 36 – 8:3 Forgiveness – a novel approach I’ve always enjoyed reading novels. I prefer reading about ordinary people overcoming difficulties and emerging changed for the better. Usually I identify with one character. When I was younger it was the beautiful […]
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5th June 2016 St Peter’s Upper Riccarton 1 Kings 17: 17-24; Galatians 1:11-24; Luke 7:11-17 “The Loving Heart” How can we reconcile joy and sorrow, life and death? Sometimes, when we see all the brokenness, all the tragedy around us we look for someone to blame. And that someone is often God. It’s easy to […]
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Compassion: the Life Giver 5 June, 2016 Reading: Luke 7:11-17 To help celebrate my wife Rosemary’s birthday recently, I thought I would make her a cake. There was quite a deal of pressure because our daughters reckon they can’t remember dad ever making a cake. So I was out to impress. Carrot cake is my […]
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Tricky Questions Lead to New Life 1 June, 2016 Reading: Mark 12:18-27 In 1216 quite suddenly, the Pope died. No one and nothing can stop death: not popes and princes, not wealth and status. The mournful and hauntingly beautiful sounds of Gregorian chant filled the cathedral as the body of Pope Innocent III lay in […]
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