SERMON Pentecost Sunday 23 May 2021 Acts 2.1-21 Psalm 104.26-36 Romans 8.22-27 John 15.26-27; 16.4b-15 Risking the horizons of possibility ©Suzanne Grimmett Sometimes, I have to go looking for poetry. Sometimes, if I am not going to serve up from the pulpit a bland reconstruction of the texts with a bit of historical criticism … Read more
Sunday 29 November 2020, Advent & Feast of St Andrew, Indooroopilly Sermon offered by Rev’d Dr Jo Inkpin It is one of those lovely quiz questions, isn’t it – what do Barbados, Romania, the Ukraine and Scotland have in common? The answer is St Andrew of course, as their shared patron saint. In this COVID-19 … Read more
SERMON Sunday 13 September St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Exodus 14.19-31 Psalm 114 Romans 14.1-14 Matthew 18.21-35 Our Identity is Freedom ©Suzanne Grimmett A viral pandemic has forced many Christians to break the Sunday morning church-going habit of a lifetime. Such a disruption to our routine practices has invited greater reflection for many … Read more
SERMON St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Sunday 6 September, 2020 Exodus 12.1-14 Romans 13.1-10 Matthew 18.10-20 Everything belongs ©Suzanne Grimmett This month we celebrate the Season of Creation, a time in the liturgical calendar for us to honour the sacredness of the natural world and our shared place in the web of life. … Read more
SERMON Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly Sunday 23 August 2020 Identity and the new humanity ©Suzanne Grimmett Who do you say that I am? I wonder what answer we would get from one another if we were to ask each other that question? I think we all know we wouldn’t come up … 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