Message for 8-03-2020 Worship

It’s all a matter of perspective. There is value when we look beyond the crowded scene of the moment to the wide sweeping vista of the horizon, it can bring clarity and direction. Here and now is important; life is to be lived in the present, responsive to the tasks at hand but sometimes we…

Message for 01-03-2020 Worship

It all started with a story about beginnings, everything’s beginning. A story of darkness and light, of things coming together, of life and hope and goodness and connections.  God and humanity and the rest of the universe interwoven and interrelated.  Then the story moves from the grand arena of cosmic proportions to focus on two…

Message for 23-02-2020 Worship

There are always great surprises in our natural world, it seems that God delights in the unexpected. One such example is the transformation of caterpillar into butterfly. It challenges logic to imagine the connection between a ravenous and chubby crawling leaf eater to the delicate slender colourful nectar drinking, flower pollinating flying insect. Yet metamorphosis…

MESSAGE FOR 17-2-2020 WORSHIP

Matthew 5 & 1 Corinthians 3 bring challenging words from Jesus and Paul. As humanity, we are all different, have different journeys and yet the central core of the Gospel unites us. The grace and love of God discovered through Jesus enables us each one to grow on our path of redemption. We are all…

Message for 3-11-2019 Worship

Families are complicated. I spent Tuesday with my brother celebrating his 70th birthday. We had lunch at a Chinese restaurant, reminiscing over the good times and bad times of growing up in the Rawlings family. I discovered some new things and I shared a couple of never-before-told stories.  There was laughter and sadness over blessings…

Message for 27-10-2019 Worship

Ever been disappointed?? Yes, we all have been. All of us at some point in our lives have found that our expectations have not been met. That’s how life is. We all find ways to cope with our disappointments – sometimes we protect ourselves by keeping our expectations small; sometimes we isolate ourselves so that…

Message for 20-10-2019 Worship

We’re all in this together.   Roman, Jew, Old, Young, God and Grace all get mixed together in this healing story of Jesus. Boundaries are defined, gaps exposed and Divine flow gets messy as Jesus blesses faith and obedience in places where it was not supposed to be. Here is evidence of generosity, faithfulness and discipline…