St Luke's Mt Waverley

Category: Reflections

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  • Minor Prophets Series

    This week begins our series on the books of the 12 minor prophets. These books and the prophets for which they are named are minor only in length. Their significance is indicated by their place in the Hebrew Bible alongside the longer writings of prophetic giants Isaiah and Jeremiah, and confirmed by the passionate and…

  • Ruth: Ageing and aloneness

    Ruth: Ageing and aloneness

    Today’s service is the first in a three-part series on the book of Ruth, and deals, in small part, with the issue of Ageing and aloneness. In the sermon I make reference to a recent Victorian Government report – Ageing is everyone’s business: a report on isolation and loneliness among senior Victorians The report is an interesting…

  • Lent – 14th reading for discipleship reflections

    I’m listening to U2 as I write – 40 is playing, a paraphrase of Isaiah 40, which includes the words ‘how long?’ and ‘I will sing, sing new song’. I’m going to consider these reflections a kind of ‘new song’ that I’m singing to God. Reading – Mark 6:53-7:23 It’s not what goes in, but…

  • Lent – 13th reading for discipleship reflections

    Catching up today – here goes! Reading: Mark 6:30-52 The section titled the feeding of the five thousand begins with the disciples reporting on their successful mission, and Jesus trying to get the disciples away together for some quiet time, because they ‘had no leisure even to eat’. Here is Jesus wanting to bring some Sabbath…

  • Lent – 12th reading for discipleship reflections

    Wow – 2 lapsed days – not good! Reading – Mark 6:1-29 As I sit at my kitchen table at my laptop, with reminders of the large party we had last week still around me, and having substantially more than two changes of clothes (a tunic was a garment similar to the alb I wear…

  • Lent – 10th reading for discipleship reflections

    Second post for the day – this is good for me! Reading: Mark 4:10-41 I didn’t focus on the parable of the sower in my last post, because I wanted to look at it in this one, as part of Jesus’ ‘explanation’ of the parable to his bewildered disciples. In my last placement I regularly…

  • Lent – 9th reading for discipleship reflections

    My discipline lapsed on Saturday – I was distracted by preparations for a party and by the joy of attending and praying at a wedding; now I’m running late for today’s two posts. Reading: Mark 3:20-4:9 On my Facebook feed, several people have shared Tony Burke MP’s post of a video of Tony Abbott as…

  • Lent – 8th reading for discipleship reflections

    Back on track, timewise at least. Reading: Mark 2:23-3:19 ‘The Sabbath was made for humankind, not humankind for the Sabbath’. I suspect I should remember this verse more often than I do. Sabbath time, a significant chunk of time set aside to rest, reflect, worship, pray and to not work, requires discipline to create. But…