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Sunday 6 May
Fifth Sunday of Easter Acts 9:26-31, Ps 22, 1 John 3:18-24, John 15:1-8 Practice opening your heart I watched an extended whanau at the estuary. The tide was high. Water flowed swiftly around an old concrete plinth. Young people swam out to the plinth, climbed to the top and then leapt out in faith and […]
A Joyful Faith
Some us us tend to look askance at the Pentecostal Christians with all their arm waving, clapping and hallelujahs. It all seems a little too demonstrative. Perhaps religion should be a more solemn business. But think again. In the Old Testament worship was a joyous thing. In so many of the psalms they are singing […]
Sunday 22 April
3rd Sunday of Easter Acts 3:13-15, 17-19; Ps 5; 1John 2:1-5; Luke 24:35-48 We are part of God’s plan The epistle of John declares that the sacrifice of Christ takes away not only our sins, but also “the whole world’s.” Captured here is the mind and heart of Jesus on the Cross dying for all. […]
Sunday: The day of the Resurrection
Jesus rose from the dead “on the first day of the week.”(Jn20:1) Because it is the “first day,” the day of Christ’s Resurrection recalls the first creation. Because it is the “eighth day” following the sabbath,(Mk 16:1) it symbolizes the new creation ushered in by Christ’s Resurrection. For Christians it has become the first of […]
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