admin April 19th, 2012
Preached on Paul’s letter to the Ephesian church in Revelation 2. We had recording problems and don’t have an electronic copy, so if you would like a hard copy to read please email the office.
admin March 7th, 2012
Divorce – Matthew 5:31-32
When I was primary school age we knew just one family who had been divorced. This was before ‘no fault divorce’ which began in 1981, prior to that unless there was proved unfaithfulness it took four years of separation. Proof was private detectives stalking the adulterers taking photos and all that sort of carry on repeated in open court, faithfully recorded with every lurid detail in the Truth newspaper. The family we knew had a very difficult time with several court hearings over a number of years to get custody, property and maintenance all sorted. It was a fraught business and still is. The husband remarried after his divorce came through but from that point on this born and raised committed catholic was no longer permitted to receive communion. Tough road for him, tough road for the whole family – whatever the specific rights and wrongs were. Continue Reading »
admin February 19th, 2012
‘Light of the World’
I used to be a youth pastor. At a youth camp I starred in a game of rugby league at a camp for about 2 minutes. I was running the ball up from deep in our own half of the field when two guys, one from behind and one from the side tackled me, so I didn’t really see them coming. As I fell there was this ripping sound much like this, and I also knew that legs weren’t designed to do what my right leg was doing, the angle was all wrong. In that tackle I tore several of the tendons in my knee and was quite literally stopped in my tracks. Continue Reading »
