Thought for the week
Thought For The Week 22 April 2018
Welcome to our combined service this morning. As one parish in two locations it is necessary to join together regularly to strengthen our common identity and to remind ourselves that it is not the buildings we worship in or the style of worship we prefer that matters. Rather it is the worship, in spirit […]
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Thought For The Week 15 April 2018
It’s certainly been a chilly week! I’m not sure that any of us were prepared for winter to bite just so early. As the days begin to close in, perhaps you’re getting into a bit more reading. I had a person email me the other day and ask which translation of the Bible they […]
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Thought For The Week 8 April 2018
Welcome to our worship services today which feature lay preachers at both our sites. David Draffin at Trinity and Bev Quigley at St Stephen’s. It is very healthy for the church to hear a variety of voices and while our ministers are specially called to the task of preaching and teaching, they are not the […]
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Thought For The Week 1 April 2018
One of my favourite things about Easter is sharing the Easter story with the kids in my Bible in Schools class. They are fascinated with the whole thing. The drama, the mystery, the miracle, the faith. On one level, the Biblical account of the resurrection is full of holes. Nobody was there and actually saw […]
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Thought for the Week 25 March
Welcome to our Palm Sunday services today. We especially welcome the Boys and Girl’s Brigades to our Trinity service. I was looking for some Easter inspiration and came across this poem which I thought was worth sharing. Twenty centuries past, what city has not heard of your coming? From Bejing to Berlin, from Jerusalem to […]
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Thought For The Week 18 March
Over the last week or so I have had the privilege of being involved in a number of funerals. Whether your loved one was 17, 79, or 96, every life is precious. Every life touches the world in a unique and irreplaceable way. The tragedy of life is that so few of us realise the […]
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Thought For The Week 11 March
Welcome to our services of worship today, the forth Sunday in Lent as we take the journey towards Easter and consider the implications for our lives of Jesus’ teaching and his death and resurrection. Today we look at the strange story of Moses fashioning a bronze snake that was held up on a pole for […]
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Thought For The Week 4 March 2018
I have been pleasantly surprised this week by the positive response that so many of you have shared about my sermon last week. It is amazing how thinking about the vastness and intricacy of the universe inspires in us a sense of wonder, awe, beauty and love. Far too often, when we’re bogged down by […]
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Thought For The Week 25 February
Thought for the week — Fasting Fridays—Lent 2018 One of the most common approaches to Lent was the practice of fasting – largely from food or specific food types. Why fasting? In the Old Testament (OT) perhaps the ‘top quality’ of a follower of God was humility. Humility enabled the believer to live a life […]
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Thought For The Week 18 February 2018
Welcome to our combined service today at Trinity and a special welcome to Rev Shona Bettany from Knox Waimate who will be leading the worship. Rory and I are at Pleasant Point today for the commissioning of their new ministry student intern, Donald Gordon. Rory is the interim moderator for this parish and I’m the […]
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