Ordinary people, Everyday hospitality

SERMON  The Midnight Christmass  Isaiah 9.2-7  Psalm 96  Titus 2.11-14  Luke 2.1-14  Christmass Eve  Monday 24 December  Ordinary people, Everyday hospitality ©Sue Wilton  One of my favourite online videos is Sir Ken Robinson’s TED talk, “Do  Schools Kill Creativity”. In it he tells the story of a nativity play where  his four year old son … Read more

Singing the eternal song

St Andrew’s Anglican Church  Indooroopilly  SERMON  Advent 4  Sunday 23 December  Micah 5: 2-5a  Song of Mary  Hebrews 10:5-10  Luke 1: 39-45  Singing the eternal song ©Sue Wilton   My soul cries out with a joyful shout  that the God of my heart is great,  And my spirit sings  of the wondrous things  that you bring … Read more

The Practice of Joy

St Andrew’s Anglican Church Indooroopilly  SERMON  Advent 3  Sunday 16 December  Zephaniah 3.14-20  The Song of Isaiah  Philippians 4.4-7  Luke 3.7-18  The Practice of Joy ©Sue Wilton   Last week I began the sermon with the words from the  Gospel. I decided against beginning today’s sermon with  “You brood of vipers!” After all, it is supposed … Read more

Held together in one peace

St Andrew’s Anglican Church  Indooroopilly  HOMILY  Sunday 9 December  Malachi 3: 1-4  Song of Zechariah  Philippians1: 1-11  Luke 3: 1-6  Held together in one peace. ©Sue Wilton  “Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. Every  valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be  made low, and the crooked shall … Read more

The Vital Grace of Waiting

St Andrew’s Anglican Church  Indooroopilly  HOMILY  Sunday 2 December  Jeremiah 33: 14-16  Psalm: 25: 1-10  1 Thessalonians 3: 9-13  Luke 21: 25-38  The Vital Grace of Waiting ©Sue Wilton  In 1931 Aldous Huxley penned a dystopian fiction called Brave New World.  Somewhat later in 1949, George Orwell produced his powerful futuristic novel,  1984. Ever since … Read more

Truth in a post-truth world

St Andrew’s Anglican Church  Indooroopilly  HOMILY  Sunday 25 November  Christ the King  Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14  Revelation 1: 4b-8  John 18:33-37  Truth in a post-truth world. ©Sue Wilton  The Oxford English Dictionaries named “post-truth” its word of the year in  November 2016. Citing a 2,000 percent spike in usage -particularly around Brexit and the American presidential … Read more

Birthing Hope

St Andrew’s Anglican Church  Indooroopilly  HOMILY  Sunday 18 November  1 Samuel 1.4-20  Song of Hannah  Hebrews 10.11-14, 19-25  Mark 13.1-11  Birthing Hope                                                                   … Read more

Sacrificing the innocent, devouring the vulnerable

St Andrew’s Anglican Church  Indooroopilly  HOMILY  Sunday 11 November  Remembrance day  Ruth 3.1-5; 4.3-17  Psalm 127  Hebrews 9.23-28  Mark 12.38-44  Sacrificing the innocent, devouring the vulnerable. © Sue Wilton     Most of us, I suspect, will think of the Gospel reading we had today  as the story of the widow’s mite. Possibly our eyes slid past … Read more

The joy of the eternal present

St Andrew’s Anglican Church  Indooroopilly  HOMILY  Sunday 4 November  Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost  Isaiah 25:6-9  Psalm 24  Revelation 21:1-6a  John 11: 32-44  The joy of the eternal present © Sue Wilton   In 1908 the British Idealist J.M.E McTaggart famously argued that time  can’t be real at all. He drew attention to the language of past, … Read more