The Rev’d Ann Edwards, now installed at Assistant Priest at The Gap!

"The God who beats us to the party"
Sermon offered by The Rev'd Sue Grimmett for the 3rd Sunday of Easter, 18 April 2021

Sunday 18 April 2021 Acts 3.12-20 Psalm 4 1 John 2.15-17, 3.1-6 Luke 24.36b-48 ©Suzanne Grimmett Every time I have this privilege of stepping up to the lectern and offering a sermo…

The livestream from this morning's Sung Eucharist for the Third Sunday of Easter.

St Andrew's Anglican ChurchIndooroopilly

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We take spaces that are left empty at night and repurpose them into pop-up accomodation that provide safe, secure, and comfortable shelter.

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Your life as a Christian should make non-believers question their disbelief- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Easter is a wonderful season to reflect on our role as witnesses. Resurrection was not just an event over two thousand years ago, but is a present lived reality in the life of everyone following Jesus’ way. Too often resurrection has been seen as one box on the list of beliefs to tick off rather than a lived reality - that death and death-dealing forces of this world have been defeated. Resurrection is also an inner experience capable of surprising us again and again when we might think we are finished, a situation is hopeless, that systems of oppression can never be overturned, or that nothing new can happen. As we attend to resurrection and live as resurrection people, we are witnessing to our own personal transformation. When the world sees transformed people, it creates seekers after that same truth and goodness. However fervently we may talk about our beliefs, or point to our faithful church attendance, our faith is worth little to ourselves or others unless it actively informs our moment-by-moment choices. We are called to witness to resurrection by the way we live and the way we love one another.

Where in our time and place is our witness to the hope and possibility of resurrection needed most?

Grace and peace,
Sue+ ... See more

Intercessions are as important as the sermon..

Hear Bishop John Roundhill and The Rev’d Penny Jones explain the significance of intercessions in this St Francis College short course video: “Intercessions are as important as the sermon. They need to be given as much time and attention as the sermon and they can sometimes be more difficult to ... ... See more

Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you.’ (John 20: 26b)

In this season of new life we hear stories where we encounter the risen Lord which help us re-imagine our lives in the light of that resurrection. The peace Jesus offers is the peace of our kinship as one family of God. Jesus comes still bearing the scars of crucifixion and yet offering forgiveness and calling us into a new kind of human community where we are invited to come as we are.

Brian McLaren in "We Make the Road by Walking" (Hodder and Stoughton, 2014), describes this new fellowship as “for scarred people and for scared people, and for people who want to believe but aren’t sure what or how to believe. When we come together just as we are, we begin to rise again, to believe again, to hope again, to live again.”

May we find reimagine our lives together in the light of resurrection this Easter season, living out the hope that again flames into life, defying all that would defeat or diminish us.

Grace and peace,
Sue+ ... See more