Sermon

In Deserted Places

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9th Sunday After Pentecost 2024 ©The Rev’d Dr John Rolley +In the Name of God, Loving Creator, Compassionate Christ, and the Healing Spirit. Amen. I would like to commence with … Read more

Sacred Violence

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Today we have two stories, that although different, are both equally horrifying. In the story of David and Goliath, we hear how David will cut off Goliath’s head and how they will leave the bodies of the Philistine army for animals to scavenge, ‘so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.’[1] The Psalm also contains this theme of sacred violence as proof of God’s favour. This Psalm attributed to David portrays his cause as righteous with his enemies, who conveniently also happen to be God’s enemies. How do we look at these texts?

Trinity Sunday

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26 May 2024 St Andrew’s Indooroopilly Rev Richard Browning (NB: this text here is fuller than the one used on Sunday morning with a few end notes added) Isaiah 6.1-8 … Read more

Spiritual Jazz   

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Feast of Pentecost Ezekiel 37.1-14 Psalm 104.26-36 Acts 2.1-21 John 15.26-27; 16.4b-15 19 May 2024                                                      ©Suzanne Grimmett “I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn’t resolve. But I … Read more

“On a dark night”

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                                                           ©Lauren Martin In Tales of the Hasidim there is a story: An old rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and … Read more