St Luke's Mt Waverley

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  • Advent every day

    The season of Advent isn’t here yet, but choirs have already been preparing for some time. Preparing for the season of preparation. Expectantly acting towards the season of expecting. We all work ahead of each season (as well as doing some quick, spontaneous work that responds to the current season), so we really live out…

  • 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…

  • Remembering a musical life

      Memorial for Aileen Penman It is nearly 12 months since Aileen Penman, long time organist at St Luke’s and devoted member of the congregation, died. The Worship Ministry Group has been deliberating about a suitable memorial remembering her faithful provision of music in this congregation for more than 20 years. A brass light to…

  • 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…

  • Lent – 2nd reading for discipleship reflections

    Okay, take 2 – a bit more like on time. The reading is Mark 1:14-20 Biblical commentaries on Mark’s gospel always note how it’s the shortest and the most dynamic. Jesus is always going somewhere or doing something and it happens at a rapid pace. Mark doesn’t waste words, which often leaves us filling in…