Being Disciples and Finding Hope
As I write, the US election result looms, and Remembrance Day is near. Anxiety is a common feeling at present in our world. The result of...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Nov 9, 2020
- 3 min
Living with the Ebb and Flow of Faith
This week we recall St Simon and St Jude. We really know nothing about them, apart from their listing among the people chosen by Jesus to...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Oct 27, 2020
- 2 min
Moving Forward in Good Faith
I sometimes find that I am bothered by passages of scripture like the midweek Gospel from Luke 12: 39-48. The story speaks of ‘the master...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Oct 21, 2020
- 1 min
Hildegard of Bingen (d. 1179)
September 17 is Hildegard’s liturgical feast day, when we remember this remarkable woman: abbess, artist, author, composer, mystic,...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
Keeping Faith in God’s Bigger World
Luke 11:42-46 is our midweek Gospel reading. But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and herbs of all kinds, and neglect...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
'Take my yoke upon you'– living with attentiveness, expectancy and care for others
"Come to me, all you that are weary and carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me; ......
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Oct 21, 2020
- 2 min
Living by the Grace of God
Then he looked up at his disciples and said: Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. ‘Blessed are you who are...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Oct 21, 2020
- 4 min
The Martyrs of Papua New Guinea and the Grain of Humility
‘Unless a grain of wheat dies … it remains but a single grain; but if it dies it bears much fruit’ (John 12:24) I have mixed feelings...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Oct 21, 2020
- 3 min
Clare of Assisi and the Workers in the Vineyard:A reminder about our prophetic heritage
I missed Clare of Assisi last week, and that’s a pity. She is a reminder that Jesus draws us to a bigger life, and better way of being,...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
What kind of man is this?
Again this week, the mid-week Gospel reading (Matthew 8:23-27), is similar to last Sunday’s Gospel. Jesus and the disciples in a...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 8, 2020
- 3 min
Living is to love him, serving him to know his freedom
Here we are mid-week and we repeat the story from last Sunday! This is Matthew’s second telling of the feeding of the many. Matthew and...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 8, 2020
- 1 min
Mary and Martha of Bethany
Remembering Mary and Martha is appropriate mid-week. If Sunday is a day of attentiveness ‘choosing the better way,’ then at the midweek...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
Staying the distance with Mary Magdalene
It’s good to be back from two week’s leave! Preferring not to take public transport I enjoyed listening to the radio along the way. One...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 8, 2020
- 2 min
The Coming of the Light
The first of July is a day of great celebration for the church of the Torres Strait. It’s the date of the arrival of Christian...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 8, 2020
- 4 min
A New Way of Living
One of the many joys I find about having grandchildren is that I can again ‘playact;’ I can enter roles that evoke different characters,...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
Genesis, Genealogies, and Guides to Faith
Our family has spent some time in recent years looking into our family tree. We’ve discovered convicts, struggle, success and tragedy....
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
Just Acting: On bearing witness to the radical love of God
In the face of current turmoil and just action in relation to black deaths in custody, it helps to recall some history of just action,...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
Back to the beginnings of our understanding
What sort of a community will we be after returning from this period of COVID isolation? It will take some while and we may not get back...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 7, 2020
- 3 min
What do we make of the Ascension of Jesus?
The Feast of the Ascension, Pivotal Time and Our Daily Faith (Luke 24:50-53; Acts 1:3-13) We are probably used to seeing icons that...
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Gosford Anglican Blog
- Sep 7, 2020
- 4 min
Common Sense and the Life of Faith in times of Disruption
I suspect that, from time to time, we all over-spiritualise our faith, we think of it as some ideal, something other than life in our...
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