First Sunday of Lent 21 February 2021 Genesis 9.8-17 Mark 1.9-15 Transforming regret ©Suzanne Grimmett Yesterday we gathered to tell stories. Not just any stories but our very own stories; the stories of this parish and how our lives and the life of this community are woven together. In his introduction, Peter Catt who … Read more
SERMON Sunday 10 January 2021 The Baptism of our Lord Genesis 1.1-5 Psalm 29 Acts 19.1-7 Mark 1.4-11 The joy of being a nobody from nowheresville ©Suzanne Grimmett “The birthday of the god was for the world the beginning of the joyful messages which have gone forth because of him” Sounds like something we … Read more
SERMON St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Sunday 16 August 2020 Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Genesis 45.1-15 Psalm 133 Romans 11.13-32 Matthew 15.10-28 Mothering prophets ©Suzanne Grimmett Jesus of Nazareth had the kind of presence that made those who felt lost, excluded, guilty or condemned flock to him. This begs the question, why does the church … Read more
SERMON St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Genesis 37.1-4, 37.12-28 Psalm 105.1-6, 105.16-22 Romans 10.4-15 Matthew 14.22-36 Sunday 9 August 2020 When losing the way is the way ©Suzanne Grimmett T.E Lawrence, better known by many as Laurence of Arabia, wrote in Seven Pillars of Wisdom about his state of mind the night before … Read more
SERMON Sunday 26 July, 2020 St Andrew’s Church of Indooroopilly Genesis 28.10-19a Psalm 105.1-11 Romans 8.12-25 Matthew 13.44-58 Recalibrating desire ©Suzanne Grimmett A person who is not at home with inward things does not know what God is. It is just like a man who has wine in his cellar and, having neither … Read more
SERMON St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Sunday 19th July Genesis 28.10-19a Psalm 139.1-11, 139.23-24 Romans 8.12-25 Matthew 13.24-43 The Banality of Evil ©Suzanne Grimmett Hannah Arendt, reflecting on 1962 trial of the Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, commented that “the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us…is of the fearsome, word-and-thought … Read more
SERMON Sunday 12 July 2020 St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Genesis 25.19-34 Psalm 119.105-112 Romans 8.1-11 Matthew 13.1-9, 13.18-23 Loopholes of hope ©Suzanne Grimmett On his deathbed, or so the story goes, actor and comedian WC Fields was seen to be reading the Bible. When a friend asked in surprise what he was doing, he … Read more
SERMON St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Sunday 28 June 2020 Genesis 22.1-14 Psalm 13 Romans 6.12-23 Matthew 10.40-42 No more of this, no more of this. Remember me. ©Suzanne Grimmett If there were a competition for the nastiest story in the Bible, this one we have heard today from Genesis- the near sacrifice by Abraham … Read more
SERMON Sunday 21 June 2020 St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Genesis 21.8-21 Psalm 86.1-10, 16-17 Romans 6.1-11 Matthew 10.24-39 A God who sees, a God who hears ©Suzanne Grimmett It has felt to me lately like there has been a shift in the universe. It has felt like many things which have been oppressive but … Read more
SERMON Day of Pentecost 9 June 2019 Genesis 11.1-9 Psalm 104.26-36 Acts 2.1-21 John 14.8-17 Unity and community need more than a Babel fish. ©The Rev’d Sue Grimmett “The Babel fish”, writes Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “is small, yellow, leech-like – and probably the oddest thing in the universe. It … Read more