Sermons

August 3, 2025Karen Eller Luke 12:13-21 Here we have a photo I took of my friend’s hay shed. She runs a sheep farm but also grows hay to feed the sheep. My friend will ask herself, “How much will we need to keep? Can we afford to sell any?” And when drought hit New South […]

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost July 13, 2025 Luke 10: 25-37 A lot of attention has focused on the eight-week trial and last week’s jury verdict of the triple murder ‘mushroom trial’. On the same day Erin Patterson was found guilty, the Northern Territory coroner, Justice Armitage, delivered findings into the coronial inquest into the death

Easter 2C April 27, 2025 John 20:19-31; Acts 5:27-32; Revelation 1:4-8 I want to begin with a story. It was 2007. I had given notice to my work and our family (Andrew and two children) took off to Tasmania for a driving holiday. We were in Hobart for the AFL grand final and watched Geelong

Psalm 1; Jeremiah 17:5-10; Luke 6:17-26 Feb 16, 2025Epiphany 6C You have probably all heard of the Sermon on the Mount, where in Matthew’s Gospel Jesus preaches his sermon on the mountaintop.  In Luke’s telling that we heard just now, Jesus has been up the mountain, chooses the inner circle of disciples from the many

Old Testament Reading: Exodus 34:29-35 Gospel Reading: Luke 9:28-36  I am wondering how many of you ever got to take a child or grandchild to a Wiggles concert? Jeff Fatt, the purple Wiggle, would pretend to fall asleep – the children would call out, “Wake up Jeff!” This was so that Jeff could join in

Feb 2, 2025Epiphany 5C 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 Several times in my life I have had the privilege of staying in a monastery. At the Cistercian (white monks) monastery at Tarrawarra I began to learn about Benedictine spirituality. Their day is carefully balanced between prayer, study and work. At a glance it would seem like a