Thought for the week
Thought For The Week 30 November 2025
Through Advent, we are focused on a pathway of powerful promises and, eventually, scenes of supernatural happenings in Matthew chapters 1 & 2. Those passages read like fairy tales to many, but in fact convey the mystery of God in the advent of Jesus. In a world of wars and rumours of wars, how about […]
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Thought For The Week 23 November
PCANZ White Ribbon Sunday – any Sunday 23 November to 14 December 2025 BREAKING THE SILENCE: A Call to Action This Advent What is PCANZ White Ribbon? Rev Hana Popea is the Presbyterian Church Aotearoa New Zealand White Ribbon NZ Ambassador. Hana offers support – including visits to presbyteries, parishes and Presbyterian events – to […]
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Thought For The Week 16 November 2025
Welcome to our special baptism service today. Today we celebrate the baptism of Jas and her children, Rocco and Zaya. Baptism is a powerful symbol in the Christian faith, rooted in Scripture and tradition. It represents: Cleansing – being washed clean from sin. Initiation – entering the family of God and the community of […]
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Thought For The Week 9 November 2025
Welcome to our service today, led by Lois Shipley. Catherine and I are enjoying a wee break in Christchurch this weekend before things get crazy busy in the build up to Christmas. It is hard to believe we are nearly at the end of the year! Today our Bucket mission offering will be gathering funds […]
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Thought For The Week 2 November 2025
Welcome to our service today. We have the wonderful privilege of presenting the Boys Brigade King’s Award to Eamon Carson, who has worked hard over the past five years to meet the requirements of this high honour. Eamon will travel to Wellington in early December for the formal presentation at Government house. Well done to […]
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Thought For The Week 26 October 2025
Welcome to our service this Labour Weekend where we celebrate, with a public holiday, that there is more to life than work. Labour day is celebrated all over the world, but the NZ origin story goes back to 1840 and a builder named Samuel Parnell who had recently arrived in Wellington and was commissioned to […]
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Thought For The Week 19 October 2025
Welcome to our service today. We are drawn together and held by God’s love as we come from diverse backgrounds and experiences, but what we share in common, is that we come to ‘this’ place to worship and hear from God, speaking through word, sacrament and even through each other. May we encounter God in […]
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Thought For The Week 12 October 2025
A very warm welcome to our service today. We are especially blessed to have Rev Martin Stewart with us today. Martin is the Alpine Presbytery executive officer who is a gifted and creative communicator and has real insight into the work of God across our church in this region. I am preaching at Pleasant Point […]
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Thought For The Week 5 October 2025
Welcome to Worship Ata marie, and a very warm welcome to our worship service this morning. I pray that you have had a good week and that you are ready to join together in fellowship and praise. As we gather today, let us remember that Jesus, our Lord, is King over all the earth. Psalm […]
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Thought For The Week 28 September 2025
Today we are continuing from Hermann’s reflections from Paul’s letter to his young protege Timothy. His letter has significant advice and instruction for those in pastoral ministry and church leadership, but the relevance of these instructions goes beyond the immediate audience. We can all benefit from Paul’s wisdom and insights and in chapter 6 he […]
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