Lectionary - RCL

These commentaries are approximately in the order they occur in the Bible. Some comment on the same texts has been written years apart, and the author hopes some growth of insight will be evident! Please note that the earlier posts may not be listed first in this index.

The New Testament
The Gospel of Matthew 
The Gospel of Mark
The Gospel of Luke
The Gospel of John
The Acts of the Apostles
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
The Epistle to the Ephesians
James

The Hebrew Scriptures
The Book of Genesis
The Psalms
Ecclesiastes
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel

More
Seasons

River Torrens near Mt Pleasant


The Gospel of Matthew

A Thematic Approach to Matthew (2020)
Matthew 1:18-25 - Manifesto (Part One) (2011)
Matthew 1:18-25 - A Severe Nativity (2014)
Matthew 1-2 - It will be done! (2014)
Matthew 1:1-17, 1:18-25 - The Birth of Good News, or Judgement? (2017)
Matthew 1:1-17, 1:18-25 - It begins with Joseph (2019) Podcast
Matthew 2 - The World is on Our Side! (2014)
Matthew 2:1-12 - The Purpose of Epiphany
Rachel (2017)
Matthew 2:13-23 - Jesus Comes out of Egypt (2023 for New Year's Day)
Matthew 2:1-18 - Home by another way (2019)
Matthew 2:1- 18 - Matthew's Nativity Play. (Homily 2019)
Matthew 3:1-11 - Grasping a nettle (2020)
Matthew 3:1-12 - The Good News of Repentance (2016)
Matthew 3:1-11 - John the Baptist at Uluru (2014)
Matthew 3:1-12 - A most serious insult (2014)
Matthew 3:1-11 - The Tapestry of Repentance (2011)
Matthew 3:1-12 - The Good News of Repentance
Matthew 3:1-2, 9-17, 4:1-3 - The Fires (2020)
Matthew 3:13-4:3a - Freedom (2020) A Sermon Draft
Matthew 3:(1-12) 13-17 - There is always fire (2017) Podcast
Matthew 3:13-17 - Coming Home (2017)
Matthew 3:13-17 - The Work of Christmas is begun (2014) 
Matthew 3:13-17 - Will we be baptised? (2011)
Matthew 4:1-11 - The Emptying Desert (2014)
Matthew 4:1-11 - Don't forget Egypt (2014)
Matthew 4:1-11, 17 - The costly choice of freedom (2017)
Matthew 4:1-11 - Living in the Spirit (2020)
Matthew 4:12-25 - Repent
Matthew 4:12-25 (1-12 included) - Gasping for air in the kingdom
Matthew 5:1-12 - Blessings, not lists
Matthew 5:1-12 - The Sermon Draft: Blessed are you
Matthew 5:1-12 - Mourning, Blessed, and Sometimes Happy 
Matthew 5:1-12 - To be honourable is to be human
Matthew - 5:13-20 - Fulfilling the Law
Matt 5:13-20 - The Sermon Draft: Love, not duty
Mathew 5:13-20 - The Sermon Draft: Teetering between karma and grace
Matthew 5:13-20 - Speaking as a Pharisee
Matthew 5:21-37 - The Betrayals of my Heart
Matthew 5:38-48 - Hate will perish the soul
Matthew 5:38-48 - Don't be law abiding!
Matthew 5:38-48 - The Grace of Perfection
Matthew 6:19-34 - Kick off your shoes - A stewardship sermon
incl Matthew 6:24-34 - A Sermon Draft: Stewardship and Being Human
Matthew 10:24-39 - The work of Easter is begun
Matthew 10:24-39 - The Cost of Life
Matthew 10:24-39 - Fear or Freedom?
Matthew 10:40-42 - In the presence of mine enemy
Matthew 10:40-42 (+ Genesis 22) - A cup of water for Isaac 
Matthew 10:40-42  (+ Genesis 22) - The Absolute and the absolute of love 
Matthew 11:2-11, 12-18 - Tears and Laughter (2019)
Matthew 11:2-11, 12-15 - Suffering Extremes of Kingdom (2017) 
Matthew 11:2-11 - Jesus draws a line in the sand (2014) 
Matthew 11:16-30 - A Complacent Wisdom  
Matthew 11:16-30 - The Impossible Burden of Jesus 
Matthew 11:16-30 - Lay your burdens down - Matthew 11:16-30 - A sermon 
Matthew 13 - Corrupting Kingdom
Matthew 13:1-23 - A Farming Faith
Matthew 13:1-23 - Stone Heaps in the Sun
Matthew 13: 1-23 - A Sown Heart (2023)
Matthew 13:1-23 - Pigsty or Paradise?
Matthew 13:24-30 - Weeds and Bad Seeds
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 - Feeding on Thistles
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 - Keep your hat on!
Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 - Welcome the Weeds
Matthew 13:24-46 - Wheat and Tares
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 - A Little Tin Glory
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 - The Common Cold and the Kingdom of Heaven 
Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52, and more - The scandal of the Kingdom of God 
Matthew 14:13-21 - Feeding Broken Dreams
Matthew 14:13-21 - Compassion
Matthew 14:13-21 - Feeding 5000
Matthew 14:13-21 - A Feast in the Face of Death 
Matthew 14:13-21 - Magic Jesus and the Real Feast (2017)
Matthew 14:13-21 - Where lies the miracle? - An investigation of interpretation (2017)
Matthew 14:22-33 - Daring to walk on water
Matthew 14:22-33 - Sink or Float?
Matthew 14:22-33 - Risk Rescure and Life
Matthew 14:22-33 - Healed of the Crowd
Matthew 14:22-33 - Walking above the flood (incl. reference to Psalm 69)
Matthew 15 - Breaking Boundaries
Matthew 15 - Well bred, or the bread which makes us well?
Matthew 15:10-28 - A human Jesus
Matthew 15:21-28 - Jesus meets Jesus? 
Matthew 15:10-28 - Blind Privilege and the Kingdom of Heaven (2017)
Matthew 16 - Of Burning Bushes and Messiahs
Matthew 16:13-20 - The Roller Coaster Ride
Matthew 16:13-20 -The Keys to Our Authority
Matthew 16:13-20 - Cry Out at the Gates
Matthew 16:13-20 - The Hero Must Die
Matthew 16:13-20 - Jonah and Jesus
Matthew 16:13-20 - My self tells me whose I am
Matthew 16:21-28 - Take up the cross
Matthew 16:21-28 - Life
Matthew 16:21-28 - Lose the Empire, Mate!
Matthew 17:1-9 - The Mountain in the Valley (2014)
Matthew 17:1-13 - There's a light upon the mountain (2017)
Matthew 17:1-9 - Wait! (2020)
Matthew 18:15-20 - .... before I begin (2011)
Matthew 18 and 9/11 - What spirit dwells in me? (2011)
Matthew 18:15-20 - If another sins against you (2008)
Matthew 18:15-20 - If you are offended (2008)
Matthew 18:15-22 - Could you imagine? (2017)
Matthew 18:15-22 - A wicked problem... and love (2107) A Sermon Draft
Matthew 18:21-35 - Seventyseven times (2008)
Matthew 18:21-35 - The story we can't believe (2017)
Matt 20:1-16 - Labourers in the Vineyard
Matthew 20:1-16 - Labourers in the Vineyard (2)
Matthew 20:1-16 and Dr. Temperance Brennan
Matthew 20: 1-16 - It's not what you think, Peter
Matthew 20:1-16 (19:16 -20:17) - A Sermon Draft: Rich, but lost in the vineyard
Matt 21:1-11 - The Palm Sunday Flash Mob (2011)
Matthew 21:1-11 - The Sermon Draft: Palm Sunday (2011)
Matthew 21:1-11 - Tell the Story (2014)
Matthew 21:1-11 - Palm Sunday Misgivings (2017)
Matthew 21:1-11 - Two Kings in the Land? Who is our King? (2017)
Matthew 21:1-11 - By the Way... Palm Sunday in the time of COVID-19 (2020)
Matt 21:33-46 - The Corner Stone
Matthew 21:23-32 - The Two Sons
Matthew 21:23-32 - When you don't have the numbers... and when you do (Philippians 2)
Matthew 21:33-45 - The Wicked Tenants
Matthew 22:1-14 - We all seek the kingdom
Matthew 22:1-14 - The Wedding Banquet
Matthew 22:1-14 - The Wedding Feast
Matthew 22:1-4 - Ducks that won't line up
Matthew 22:15-22 - Argue Like Jesus (2014)
Matthew 22:15-22 - Smart Answer, Wise Word  (2008)
Matthew 22:15-22 - But Everything Belongs to God (2017)
Matthew 22:34-46 - Truly Simple (2008)
Matthew 22:34-45 - Who are your relatives? (2011)
Matthew 22:34-45 - A new love (2011)
Matthew 22:34-46 - The Freedom of Love (2014)
Matthew 22:34-46 - The Unlearning of Love (2017)
Matthew 23:1-12 - The Humble Greatest
Matthew 23:1-13 - The mysterious burden of freedom (2011)
Matthew 23 - Anger without Pain (2014)
Matthew 23:1-12 (13-38) - The  ending of Fences (2017)
Matthew 24: 36-44 - We who are left behind (2019 Advent 1) 
Matthew 24:36-44 - Living in a dying world?  (2017)
Matthew 24:36-44 - Life on the Beach (2014)
Matthew 24:36-44 - Meet the coming Christ (2013)
Matthew 24:36-44 - Be alert (2011)
Matthew 24:36-44 - Living in a dying world? 
Matthew 25 - Beware of the Self (1)
Matthew 25 (2 ) - Live Life Well (2008)
Matthew 25 - Funeral Homily (2011)
Matthew 25:1-13 - Saving from...
Matthew 25:1-13 - The good oil
Matthew 25:1-13 - Gatekeepers of the Kingdom
Matthew 25:14-30 - Unfinished Business
Matt 25:31-40 - Am I a Christian or a Silly Goat (2012)
Matthew 25:31-46 - Love changes everything (2011) 
Matthew 25:31-46 - The Lamb at the Stockyards (2014)
Matthew 25:31-46 - The Far Near Country (2017)
Matthew 25:31-46 - When are we going to have the party? A sermon (2017)
Matthew 25:31-46, Luke 15:11-32 - Fathers, Sons, Sheep and Goats (2022)
Matthew 28 - The Resurrection of Belief
Matthew 28 - Resurrection Sermon
Matthew 28:16-20 - Trinity Sunday - Lord of the Dance
Matthew 28 - The Sermon Draft: Dancing into the Life of God — Trinity Sunday 2011
Matthew 28:1-10 - Easter Day
Matthew 28:16-20 - Trust
Matthew 28:16-20 - Matthew, Trinity, and Me: Which song shall I sing?
Matthew 28:16-20 - Singing Trinity
 
The Gospel of Mark
Mark 1:1-6
Mark 1:1 - What exactly was the Good News? (2015)
Mark 1:1-8 - The Pumpernickel Gospel of Mark (2011)
Mark 1:1-8 - Let the gospel make its mark (2015)
Mark 1:1-8 - Life goes on (2017)
Mark 1:9-15 - Life through death
Mark 1:4-11 - Of and By
Mark 1:4-11 - Fake Tan?
Mark 1:4-11 - Getting immersed in things
Mark 1:9-11
Mark 1:9-15
Mark 1:15
Mark 1:9-15 - Tearing Heaven Open
Mark 1:9-15 - Home in the wilderness at last
Mark 1:14-20 - Grief and Gospel: The Call (2012)
Mark 1:14-20 - The Ticky Tacky Problem (2012)
Mark 1:14-20 - Act now! (2009)
Mark 1:16-20 - Call and Commitment (2006)
Mark 1:14-20 - Jesus begins the Journey (2015)
Mark 1:14-20 - Jonah goes to hospital (2015)
Mark 1:14-20 - Remember the Loaves and Fishes (2018)
Mark 1:21-28 (2006. Adapted in 2009)
Mark 1:21-28 - Authority and Evil (2009)
Mark 1:21-28 - Power Sandwiches (2012)
Mark 1:21-28 - Authority (2012)
Mark 1:21-28 - Hold my hand (2015)
Mark 1:21-28 - What is unclean? (2018)
Mark 1:21-28 - Who will form you? (2018)
Mark 1:29-31- Peter's Mother (2008)
Mark 1:29-39 - At The Movies (2012)
Mark 1:29-39 - Balancing Act (2009)
Mark 1:29-39 - The First Resurrection in Mark (2012)
Mark 1:29-39 - Valued or ill? (2015)
Mark 1:29-39 - Whose call will you answer? (2018)
Mark 1:32-34
Mark 1:35-39
Mark 1:40-45 - Healing the Leper
Mark 1:40-45 - Touching a torn soul
Mark 1:40-45
Mark 1:40-45 - Just one more healing? (2017)
Mark 1:40-45 - A Moment of Decision (2017)
Mark 2:1-12
Mark 2:13;17
Mark 2:18-28
Mark 3:1-8
Mark 3:1-6 - Comment by James Alison
Mark 3:7-12
Mark 3:13-30
Mark 3:20-35 - A Most Uncomfortable Invitation (2012)
Mark 3:20-35 - Healing the family sandwich (2015)
Mark 3:20-35 - Satan, Sabbath, and Original Sin (2018)
Mark 3:31-35
Mark 4:1-20
Mark 4:10-12
Mark 4:21
Mark 4:26-32
Mark 4:26-32 - The kingdom is like (2009)
Mark 4:26-34 - Seeding Metaphors of Kingdom (2012)
Mark 4:26-34 - Straining against fences whilst seeking kingdom (2015)
Mark 4:26-34 - Mustard Seeds and Fig Trees (2018) 
Mark 4:35-41, (2006) Re-posted in 2009 as Mark 4:35-41 - Dead Calm in Deep Water
Mark 4:35-41 - Facing the Fear (2009)
Mark 4:35-41 - Rebuke the wind (2009)
Mark 4:35-41 - Man Overboard! (2012)
Mark 4:35-41 - Calm in the Storm (2012)
Mark 4:35-41 - The lake we call life (2015)
Mark 4:35-41, 5:1-21 - Whatever floats your boat (2018)
Mark 4:35-41- Storm and Tombs (2018)
Mark 5:1-20
Mark 5:21-43 - Healing a Deep Hatred (2009)
Mark 5:21-43 -  Let her get up (2006)
Mark 5:21-43 - Be a Man (2012)
A Substantial Healing - Mark 5:21-43 (2012)
Fred... and much more - Mark 5:21-43 (2015)
Mark 5:21-43 - Restoration (2018)
Mark 5:21-43 - Blood - A Sermon (2018)
Mark 6:1 - Not without honour (2006)
Mark 6:1-13 - 13 - Blood thicker than water? (2009)
Mark 6:1-13 - Local Legends (2012)
Mark 6:1-13 - Next to the Chocolates (2015)
Mark 6:1-13 - Do not even carry your name (2018)
Mark 6:14-29 Head on a Platter (2006)
Mark 6:14-29 - First of three feasts (2009)
Mark 6:14-29 - Foul Feast of an Evil Kingdom (2012)
Mark 6:14-29 - Changing Everything (2012)
Mark 6:14-29 - Hurdy Gurdy Horror (2015)
Mark 6:14-29 - Winning and losing, or something else? (2015)
Mark 6:14-29 - From whom will a little girl learn? (2018)
Mark 6:30ff 8:10ff - Feedings in Mark
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 - Shepherd
Mark 6:33, Mark 8:1
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 - Teach and Heal
Mark 6:30-56 - Becoming a disciple at leisure (2018)
Mark 7:1-24 - Spiritual Diahorrea (2012)
Mark 7, James 1 - Wholly Holy, or Deceived? (Sermon 2012)
Mark 7 - More than food
Mark 7:1-23 -The Traditions of the Elders (2015)
Mark 7:1-23 - Five Weeks of John- and it's still about bread (2018)
Mark 7:24-37 - Dog under the Table (2009)
Mark 7:24-37 - Road Testing Jesus (2012)
Mark 7:24-37 - The stuff under our tables (2015)
Mark 7:24-37 - What would Jesus do? (2015)
Mark 8:31-38 - Life Saving and Losing (2009)
Mark 8:27-38 - The pointy end of the gospel (2009)
Mark 8:27-38 - Who are you? (2015)
Mark 8:27-38 - Will you forget who I am? (2015)
Mark 8:31-38 - A Prayer from the Heart (2012)
Mark 8:27-35 - A letter to America... and Oz (2018)
Mark 9:2-9 - Mind Blowingly Simple (2012)
Mark 9:2-29 - Getting over the mountain top (2012)
Mark 9:2-9 - Moments of transfiguration (2015)
Mark 9:30-37 - Power is Poison (2009)
Mark 9:30-37 - The Great Subversion (2012)
Mark 9:30-37 - JoyStar (2012)
Mark 9:30-37 - What is greatness? (2015)
Mark 9:30-37 - Servanthood: Where our humanity flourishes
Mark 9:38-50 - Millstones, Sex and Power (2009)
Mark 9:38-50 - Power and Persecution (2012)
Mark 9:30-50 - Sitting on a Row of Tacks (2012)
Mark 9:38-50 Between Love and Hell (2015)
Mark 9:38-50 - The folly of fences (2018)
Mark 9:38-50 - You can walk away... and you may not notice. A Sermon. (2018)
Divorce (1992)
Mark 10:2-16 - The Powerless Child (2009)
Mark 10:2-16 – Keeping ourselves together (2012)
Mark 10:2-16 - Little Children and Hard Hearts (2012)
Mark 10:2-16 –  In His Arms (2015)

Mark 10:2-16 – The Children and Divorce (2015)
Mark 10:2-16 - The Role of the Child (2018)
Mark 10:17-31 - Just One Thing (2009)
Mark 10:17-31 - How many billy cans is too many? (2012)
Mark 10:17-30 - What to do with a camel's inheritance. (2018)
Mark 10:13-31 - Stumbleupon
Mark 10:32-45 - Sandwiched between new and old (2009)
Mark 10:35-45 - What does it cost us to win? (2012)
Mark 10:32-45 - The desire for glory-- an its cost (2018)
Mark 10:46-52 - Let me see! (2009)
Mark 10:46-52 - Blind MacShultz (2012)
Mark 10:46-52 - Seeing through the metaphors (2015)
Mark 10:46-52 - Going to Jerusalem (2015)
Mark 10:46-52 - On the road with Bartimaeus (2018)
Mark 10:46-52 - Leaving Jericho Behind - A Sermon (2018)
Mark 11:1-11 - Jesus rain on my parade
Mark 12:28-34 - The First Commandment (2009)
Mark 12:28-34 - Not far from the Kingdom of God (2012)
Mark 12:28-34 - The Interpretation of Love (2015)
Mark 12:28-34 - Holiness and Love (2018)
Mark 12:38-44 - The Trickle Down Theory of Church (2015)
Mark 12:38-44 - Dystopia, Tragedy, or Glory? (2015)
Mark 12:38-44 - Dancing past the Birdcage  (2015)
Mark 12:38-44 - What will we choose? (2018)
Mark 13:1-8 - Watch out!
Mark 13:1-13 - Reduced to our Foundations (2012)
Mark 13:1-13 - Birth Pangs (2012)
Mark 13:1-13 - Facing Jerusalem (2012)
Mark 13 - Dive on in... (2015)
Mark 13 - Victory? (2015)
Mark 13:24-37 - Keep Alert!
Mark 13:24-37 - A difficult Day of the Lord
Mark 13:24-36 - The Sermon Draft: When is Jesus coming back? Does God have a plan?
Mark 13: 24-37 - The End... or Resurrection? 
Mark 13:24-37 - Seeking to Bleat Like a Sheep (Mark 2018)
Mark 14,15 - What does it all mean
Mark 14,15 - Making sense of Jesus' death
Mark 15:34- Budgetting for Compassion
Mark 16:1-8 - The Resurrection of Dead Poets
Mark 16:1-8 - I saw him on Main North Road
Mark 16: Easter Day April 2006
Mark 16:1-8 - He has gone before you
Mark 16:1-8 - Farther up and farther in... an Easter Reflection
 
The Gospel of Luke
Luke 1 - Luke's Christmas (2013)
Luke 1:26-38 - Not about the baby
Luke 1:26-38 - Getting the Jesus story...
Luke 1:26-38 - Grim Joy or Glorious Hope

Luke 1:26 - 55 - Every pure and virgin soul
Luke 1:39-45 - Hill Country Happiness
Luke 1:39-45 - Joy and Sorrow
Luke 1: 46-55 - When Christmas is not merry
Luke 1:39-55 - Impossible stories and white wine in the sun
Luke 1: 26-55 - A Sermon: Life in the intersection
Luke 2:1-20 - Taking Christmas Seriously (2011)
Luke 2:1-20 - The apple of my eye (2011)
Luke 2:1-20 - Red Pills for Christmas (2011)
Luke 2:1-20 - The First Chaser
Luke 2:1-20 - Taking Stock of Christmas (2013)
Luke 2:1-20 - Pondering Christmas Griefs  (2014)
Luke 2:1-20 - Keeping the peace (2016)
Luke 2:1-20 - Hot Cross Buns at Christmas? (2016)
Luke 1:26-38, 2:1-20 - Living the peace (2017)
Luke 2:1-20 (and Magnifcat etc) - You call that a Son of God!??? (2018)
Luke 2:21-40 - Plain talk and prejudice
Luke 2:40-52 - A Blue Boat Home Past the Cross
Luke 2:41-52 - Home Alone: Not lost in Jerusalem
Luke 2:41-52 - Jesus goes missing
Luke 3:1-6 - Manifesto! (2010)
Luke 3:1-6 - The Morning Papers (2012)
Luke 3:1-6 - From Exile to Fire (2016)
Luke 3:1-6 - Bordering on the truth (2018)
Luke 3:7-18 - Worthy Fruit (2010)
Luke 3:7-20 - Landing (2013)
Luke 3:7-18 - In the Spirit (2016)
Luke 3:7-18 - A Baptism in Spirit? (2016)
Luke 3:7-18 - The spirit of the ethical cosmos (2016)
Luke 3:7-18 - Children of the Crowd or of the Spirit (2019)
Luke 3:15-22 (23-38) - Baptism: Jesus and us (2016)
Luke 3:15-23, 23 - The Baptism of Herod or Jesus? (2019)
Luke 4:1-13 - If only you will... (2010)
Luke 4:1-13 - No short cuts past the cross (2013)
Luke 4:1-13 - The unholy is the holy without vision  (2016)
Luke 4:1-13 - Fear and Temptation (2016)
Luke 4:1-13 - When in Lent (2019)
Luke 4:14-21 - Becoming unhappy, and finding peace
Luke 4:14-21 (30) - You changed it! 
Luke 4:14-22 - An almost lynching...
Luke 4:21-30 - Running the Gauntlet of Compassion
Luke 4:21-30 - My God is not my God
Luke 4:21-30 - Mourning Glory
Luke 5:1-11 - Peter Saw
Luke 6:17-26 - The level place of grace
Luke 7:11-17 - Raising the Dead
Luke 7:36 - 8:3 - One Who Has Heard?
Luke 7:36 - 8:3 - The Healing of Smelly Feet
Luke 7:36 - 8.3 - Given a name of my own
Luke 8:26-39 - Jesus as Ripley (2010)
Luke 8:26-39 - No longer possessed by the mob (2016)
Luke 8:26-39 - Better the devil you know (2019) Podcast
Luke 8:26-39 - Who's Sick (2019) Podcast
Luke 9:28-43 - Suffering Epiphany (2010)
Luke 9:28-43 - Healing for a tin ear (2013)
Luke 9:28-42 - Facing the Veil (2016)
Luke 9:28-45 - Yesterday was the eighth day (2019)
Luke 9:51-62 - More Elijah and Jesus (2010)
Luke 9:51-62 - More than Elijah (2010)
Luke 9:51-62 - Setting our face towards paradox (2016)
Luke 9:51-62 - The Spirit of Elijah, or the Spirit of Jesus? (2016)
Luke 9:51-62 - Clambering through the family tree  (2019) Podcast
Luke 10:1-20 - Hospitable Mission (2010)
Luke 10:1-20 - Jesus Trumps Brexit... by not playing the game (2016)
Luke 10:1-20 - Did Satan fall in my backyard? (2019)  Podcast.
Luke 10:25-37 - The Economy of God: : A cost benefit analysis, or the gift of life? (2013)
Luke 10:25-37 - Dancing Like a Samaritan (2016)
Luke 10:25-37 - On the same page as Jesus (2019)
Luke 10:23-37 - The neighbour with eternal life - A Sermon Draft (2019) Podcast
Luke 10:38-42 - Mary:Martha
Luke 10:38-42 - The Better Part
Luke 10:38-42 - Dave Chooses the Better Part
Luke 10:38-42 - Controlling Women (2019) Podcast
Luke 10: 38-42 - Luke, Luke, only one thing is needful (2019)
Luke 11:1-13 - Persistent Prayer
Luke 11:1-13 - Science and Prayer
Luke 11:1-13 - The Scientist Prays
Luke 11:1-13 - Praying with God
Luke 11:1-13 Made by prayer (2019) Podcast
Luke 12:1-13 - Singing it with Janis (2019) Podcast
Luke 12:13-21 - My Father's Barn (2010)
Luke 12:13-21 - Resisting the serpentine whisper (2019) Podcast
Luke 12:13-21 - What is rich? (2019)
Luke 12:32-40 - Possessions and Kingdom (2010)
Luke 12:32-40 - Peach Trees and the Kingdom of God (2013)
Luke 12:32-40 - Ready for what? (2013)
Luke 12:32-40 - Good Pleasure and Joy (2013)
Luke 12:31-40 - On Being a Prepper (2019) Podcast
Luke 12:31-48 - The Good Pleasure of God (2019) Podcast
Luke 12:49-56 - God's Time (2010)
Luke 12:49-56 - What is God? (2013)
Luke 12:49-56 - The Fire of Free Will (2013)
Luke 12:49-56 (and the whole chapter) - Embracing Grief or Empire (2019) Podcast
Luke 13:1-9 - Don't Blame the Victim (2010)
Luke 13:1-9 - Succeeding in the economy of God (2013)
Luke 13:1-9 - Meditations on repentance (2016)
Luke 13:1-9 - Repenting Death (2016)
Luke 13:1-9 - Mosque (2019)
Luke 13:1-9 - God is the gardener (2019 - A Sermon)
Luke 13:10-17 - Everything flows from this
Luke 13:10-17 - How could you do that?
Luke 13:10-17 - You don't get it, do you, Teacher!
Luke 13:31-35 - The Narrow door
Luke 13:31-35 - We are all Jerusalem
Luke 13:31-35 - To whom do you belong, and to what do you lay claim?
Luke 13:31-35 - Before we laugh - Minchin and Pell 
Luke 13:31-35 - Looking for someone to blame - Sermon
Luke 13:31-35 - The Vulnerable God
Luke 13:31-35 - Shelter and Healing (Homily 2019)
Luke 14:1,7-14 - Status Update (2010)
Luke 14:1,7-14 - Celebrity Chairs (2013)
Luke 14: 1-24 - Who invited him? (2013)
Luke 14:1-14 - Bad legs or swollen egos? (2019) Podcast
Luke 14:1-14 - Don't Leave Out the Dropsy (2022)
Luke 14:1-14 - Getting off the Red Carpet (Sermon 2019) Podcast
Luke 14, Jeremiah 8 - In the hands of the Potter or the Politicians? (2013)
Luke 14:25-33 - Love, Hate, Family and Faith (2010)
Luke 14:25-33 - Losing the Land of the Free (2013)
Luke 14:25-35 - Disciple, or not (2019)
Luke 14:25-35 - Are you really hungry? (2019) Podcast
Luke 14:25-35 Three Years On (2022)
Luke 15:1-10 - We'll all be rooned (2010)
Luke 15:1-10 - The God of the One Percent (2013)
Luke 15 - Not without David (2013)
Luke 15: 11-32 - Meditations on a Prodigal Father (2010)
Luke 15: 1-2, 11-32 - Free Beer (2013)
Luke 15 - Eating in the Wilderness (2019) Podcast
Luke 15 - Tugging at the curtains A Sermon (2019) Podcast
Luke 15:11-32, Matthew 25:31-46 Fathers, Sons, Sheep and Goats (2022)
Luke 15:11-32, The Right Thing? (2023)
Luke 16:1-13 - The Money Manager
Luke 16 (esp 1-13) - Stop digging yourself a hole
Luke 16:1-26 Cold Hard Cash
Luke 16:1-13 - Which way off the bridge? (2019)
Luke 16:1-13 - How well are you trading on the Spiritual Nasdaq? - A sermon (2019)
Luke 16:19-31 - Justice (2010)
Luke 16:19-31 - Hollowed Out Humanity (2016)
Luke 16:19-31 - Crossing the chasm (2019)
Luke 17:5-10 - We can do this (2010)
Luke 17:1-10 - Don't Plough with a Millstone 'round Your Neck! (2013)
Luke 17:1-10 - Death in Pigtails (2019)
Luke 17:11-19 - Want wholeness with that, or just healing?
Luke 17:11-19 - A Priest in a Taxi
Luke 17:11-19 - The Blessing of the Outsider
Luke 17: 11-19 - Walk the line (2019) Podcast
Luke 17:11-19 Nine and One (2022)
Luke 18:1-8 - The Cost and Consolations of Hope
Luke 18:1-8 - Knocking on Heaven's Door
Luke 18:1-8 - Pray to be heard or to hear (2019) Podcast
Luke 18:1-8 - The Company We Keep (2019) Podcast
Luke 18:9-14 - The Levelling Love of God (2010)
Luke 18:9-14 - We don't have a prayer (2013)
Luke 18:9-14 - Thank God I am not like other people! (2013)
Luke 18:9-14 - Who will save me? (2019) Podcast
Luke 19:1-10 - The Mystery of Grace (2010)
Luke 19:1-9 - The Story of the Holy Tax Collector (2013)
Luke 19:1-10 - Hypocrites or Assholes? (2019)
Luke 19:28-40 - Pain on my Parade - Palm Sunday
Luke 19:28-40 - Which Parade? - Palm Sunday
Luke 19:1, 28-44 - Choose - Palm Sunday (2019) Podcast
Luke 19:28-40 - Campaigning with Jesus (Sermon 2019)
Luke 20:27-40 - Kingdom and Resurrection (2010)
Luke 20:27-38 - A Missionary Meets a Cannibal (2019)
Luke 20:27-38 - The end of the line? (2019)
Luke 21:5-19 - Tested by Fire (2010)
Luke 21:5-19 - A Wonderfully Ancient and Eternal Place (2013)
Luke 21:5-19 - Gaining our Soul (2013)
Luke 21:5-19 - When the end comes for us (2019)
Luke 21:25-36 - Wars and Rumours (2010)
Luke 21:25-36 - What I want for Christmas... is a little apocalyptic sensibility (2015)
Luke 21:25-36 - Lift up your heads (2013)
Luke 21:25-36 - Apocalypse When? (2016)
Luke 21:25-36 - Do you really believe this? (2016)
Luke 21:25-38 - The Glorious Spaces in Between (2018)
Luke 22:39 - 23:49 - Grim Friday - Good Friday according to Luke
Luke 23:36-43 - Phase Change and Kingdom
Luke 23:36-44 - Getting God Across
Luke 23:33-43 - Christ the Chemistry Teacher
Luke 24:1-35 - Remembering Absent Presence
On the road - Luke 24:13-35
Luke 24:13-35 - Church on the Road
Luke 24:13-35 - The Economy of Resurrection
Luke 24:13-35 - Practising for Resurrection - Reflections on Emmaus
Luke 24:36b-48 - The Appearance of Resurrection
Luke 24:36-48 - Feeding Jesus
Luke 24:13-36 - Given a name at Breakfast
Luke 24:1-49 - Living Resurrection - An Easter Meditation (2019)
 
The Gospel of John
John 1:1-18 - Swimming with John
John 1:1-18 - Singing by Living
John 1:1-18 - In the Beginning
John 1:1-18 - To see the face of God
John 1:1-18 - Confession
John 1:6-8, 19-28 - Revealing The One
John 1:6-8, 19-28 - When the Moon Rose in the West (2015)
John 1:6-8, 19-28 - The Darkness (2-17)
John 1:29-42 - Finding the Golden Lamb (2020) Podcast
John 1:6-8, 19-28 - John the Button Presser: A Sermon (2017)
John 1:29-42, (43-51) - Now is the time (2017)
John 1:29-42 - 'scaping the Goats (2014)
John 1:29-42 - Beholding the Lamb of God (2011)
John 1:29-42 The Sermon Draft: Behold the Lamb of God (2011)
John 1:43-51 - Nathanael (2009)
John 1:43-53 - Come and See and Remain with Me (2012)
John 1:43-51 - If Y'all Would Come and See...  (2012)
John 1:43-51 - I am afraid of dying (2015)
John 1:43-51 - Epiphany in White Socks (2018)
John 2:13-22 - The New Temple
John 2:1-11 - Life was not meant to be easy
John 2:1-11 - Superphosphate and Champagne
John 2:1-11 - Touching the intangible
John 2:13-25 - A banal turning over of tables
John 2:13-25 - The Affect of Jesus
John 3:1-17 - Don't believe in signs
John 3:1-17 - Doctrine for the rest of us
John 3:1-17 - Lift up your horizons
John 3:1-17 - The Dummies Guide to the Trinity
John 3:1-21 - At Home
John 3:14-22 - Standing in the Good Wind
John 3:14-22 - I hate myself most of all (2018)
John 3:1-17 - The Humiliation and Healing of Nicodemus
John 3:1-21 - Wanderment 
John 4:5-42 - Seeing the single tree (2014)
John 4:5-42 - Entering Deeper Water (2020 Lent 3) Podcast
John 4:5-42 - Questions and Meanderings after Sunday Lunch (2023)
John 5:1-18 - Jesus can't help himself (2019) Podcast. A reflection following the reading of John 14 (May Peace Be Upon You) and comparing the man in John 5 and the man in John 9.
John 6:1-21 - Which Bread do You Seek? (2009)
John 6:1-21 -Beyond Bread and Kingdom (2012)
John 6:1-21 - Signs for the Sick (2015)
John 6:1-21 - An inconvenient truth (2015)
John 6:1-21 - Getting Nourishment from the bread (2018)
John 6:24-35 - Whose Boat are you in? (2012)
John 6:24-35 - Hunger and Thirst  (2012)
John's Bread - John 6:23-35 (2009) 
John 6:11-23, 24-35 - Beware the Boats from Tiberias (2018)
John 6:22-35 - A Sermon: Get out of the boat (2018)
John 6: 35, 41-51 - Eaten by Life (2015)
John 6:35, 44-51 - Love's Angular Momentum (2012) 
John 6:35, 44-51 - On the Death of My Father (2012) 
John 6:35,41-51 - Even More Bread! (2009)
John 6:35-51 - Hunger and Resurrection (2018)
John 6:51-58 - Chomping in Church (2012)
John 6:51-58 - This Terrible Eating of Bread (2015)
John 6:51-58 - How could I drink blood (2018)
John 6:51-58 - Are you sure this is bread? (2018)
John 6:56-69 - Dry Bread?
John 6:56-69 - Gristle
John 6:56-69 - Constantly tripping over Jesus (2018)
John 6:56-71 - Sermon: I am the Tradie who comes down from Heaven (2018)
John 7:57-8:11 Laying down the stones (2023)
John 9 - Seeing into the Circle
John 9:1-41 Use your eyes!
John 9: 1-41 - When Mud Gets in Your Eyes
A contrast between the men of John 5 and John 9: Jesus can't help himself (2019)
John 9 - I was there (2020 Lent 4)
The Gate (2014)
John 10:1-21 - Whistleblowing at the Sheep Gate (2014)
John 10 - Finding Life and Being (2020)
John 10:1-15 - I will meet you (2017)
John 10 - The Discernment of Shepherds and Sheep (2015)
John 10 - A Voice calling my Name (2011)
John 10 - Sheep and Other Mamils (2011)
John 10:11-18 - Life in all its fullness (2009)
John 10:11-19 - Meeting a Distant Shepherd (2012)
John 10:11-19 and Psalm 23 - Living in the Long Paddock (2012)
John 10, John 10:22-30 - These three remain; faith, hope and love (2013)
John 10 - Sheep Among the Wolves of War - Anzac (2015)
John 10:22-30 - Will you enter in? (2016)
John 11 - Cracking the Concrete (2014)
John 11 - Don't Cave in to the Death People (2014)
John 11 - Funerals in the face of death  (2017)
John 11 - Finding toilet paper in John 11 (2020 - Lent 5)
John 12:1-7 - Little Glimpses of Resurrection
John 12:1-8 - The love of Mary
John 12:1-11 - The Last Stop on the Road to Cobar
John 12:12 - 16 - Jesus rain on my parade
John 12:20-33 - The Human One (2009)
John 12:20-33 - Write my own gospel? (2012)
John 12:20-33 - Facing what we most fear (2012)
John 12:20-36 - Protons, Neutrons, Electrons (2015)
John 12:22-36 - SMIDSY (2015)
John 12:20-33 (12:19-43) - Light, or smoke and mirrors (2018)
John 14: Trust God? Stop Whinging - A Sermon
John 14:1-14 - Meeting Jesus in John
John 14:1-14 - My not invisible friend
John 14:1-14 - The Place is the Way
John 14:1-14 - Just Trust Me  
John 14:1-14 - Because of the works themselves (2020)
John 14:8-17 - Challenge and Comfort
John 14:8-17 - Discomforting Ecstasy
John 14:8-17 - Feeling The Spirit
John 14:8-27 - Learning to see again (2019)
John 14:8-27 - Pentecost: Redeemed and freed in the gate (2019) Podcast
John 14:15-21 - The Mundane Spirit of God
John 14:15-21 - Being Open to see Life 
John 14:15-21 - Just love each other 
John 14:15-31 - In Us
John 14:23-29 - Inside and Outside
John 14:22-29 - Being Judas
John 14:23-29 - May Peace Be Upon You (2019) Podcast
John 14:15-29 - Peace (2019) A sermon for National Sorry Day Podcast
John 15:1-8 - Vine Dressing, Vine Blessing (2009)
John 15:1-8 - Pruning (2012)
John 15:1-8 - Living in the Garden(2012)
John 15:1-8 - Do not flag in your abiding (2015)
John 15:1-8 - Love and death: Consumed, burned, or possessed? (2018)
John 15:9-17 - The Butler Did It (2009)
John 15:9-17 - The smelly side of love (2012)
John 15:12-16:15 - Pentecost for Poddlers (2012)
John 15:9-17 -  You are my friends! (2018)
John - 15:26-16:15 - Wondering How to Read
John 16:12-15 - Farm Friendly Trinity
John 16:12-15 - Exploring Trinity
John 16:12-15 - Hear O Israel, the Lord is God!
John 17 - Letting Jesus become Christ
John 17:1-11 - Glory
John 17:6-19 - Salt in the world
John 17:6-19 - God help us
John 17 - Don't Hate the Good Life
John 17 - Sermon Draft: This is life
John 17:1-11 - My Glory and the Lifter of My Head 
John 17 - The distillation of Mystery
John 17:20-26 - Torn Apart and Joined Together
John 17:20-26 - Becoming One
John 18-19 - Grief in Slow Motion:
John 18-19 - Jesus did not die for me - Good Friday
John 18-19 - Good Friday on Sunday Night 
Living Good Friday... an Easter Reflection 
John 18:33-37 - Back and Forth between Two Truths
John 18:33-38 - King of the Rubik's Cube
John 18:33-38 - A King for all seasons
John 18:33-37 - Who[se] are we?
John 18:33-38 - The Whole World in his Hands
John 20 - Sunday after Easter
John 20:1-18 - Letting Go of Jesus
John 20:1-18 - What are you looking for?
John 20:19-23 - The spirit of the Spirit
John 20:19-23 - Bedrock (Pentecost, passing reference)
John 20:19-29 - Easter in the Anthropocene CLIMATE CHANGE
John 20:10-31 - Mary my sister, Thomas my twin
John 20:19-31 - Life in all its fullness
John 20:19-31 - That you may have life!
John 20:19-31 - Sacramental Coffee
John 20:19-31 - Thomas the Believer
John 20:19-31 - Reflections on The Community of Forgiveness
John 20:19-31 - Sin and Doubt on the Eighth Day
John 20:19-31 - The Forgiveness of Twins
John 20:19-31 - Truthful Thomas (2019)
John 21 - Stretched Out
John 21:1-19 - The Final Acceptance
John 21 - Life between two fires 
John 21 - Dive Deeply (2016)
John 21 - A Way for the Binding of Wounds (2019) Podcast
 
The Acts of the Apostles
Acts 2:1-21 - The Main Game
Acts 2:1-21 - Sermon Draft: The wind has changed
Acts 2:1-21 - The Name of the Lord - Pentecost
Acts 2:1-21 - Discomforting Ecstasy
Acts 2:1-21 - Feeling the Spirit
Acts 2:1-21 - The spirit of the Spirit
Acts 2:1-21 - Bedrock
Acts 9:36-43 - These three remain; faith, hope and love
Acts 9:36-43, (Acts 10 -11) Be careful how you imagine your world (2019)
Acts 9:36 - 10:42 Raise and be raised (2019) A Sermon
Acts 10, 11 - One thing leads to another (2019)
Acts 11:1-18 - The Revelation of Difference
 
The First Letter to the Corinthians
1 Corinthians 12:3-13 - The spirit of the Spirit
1 Corinthians 15:35-50 - Imagining Resurrection (2017)
1 Corinthians 15:35-50 - Imagining Resurrection (2018) A Sermon Draft
 
The Second Letter to the Corinthians 
2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2 - Facing the Veil
The Letter to the Galatians
Galatians 1:1-12 - An Important Announcement
Galatians 1:1-12- Seriously
Galatians 1:22 - 2:14 - How free is your grace?
Galatians 3:15 - 3:22 - The Experience of God's Gift
Galatians 2:15-21 - God's Kitchen
Galatians 3:23-29 - The End of the Cosmos!
Galatians 3:23-29 - Thank God I am not like other people
Galatians 5:1-26 - It's not about you!
Galatians 6:1-18 - The High Path
Galatians 6:1-18 - There's a battle going on....
The Epistle to the Ephesians
Ephesians 3:1-12 - The Purpose of Epiphany
Ephesians 3:10 - The Epiphany of Slowing Down
Philippians
Philippians 2:1-13 - When you don't have the numbers... and when you do (Matthew 21:23-32
James
James 1, Mark 7 - Wholly Holy, or Deceived?
 
1 John 3
1 John 3 - The Discernment of Shepherds and Sheep
1 John 3 - Sheep among the Wolves of War - Anzac
 
Revelation
Revelation 7:9-17 - These three remain; faith, hope and love
Until the sky falls... - Acts 16:9-15, Rev 21:10,22-27; 22:1-5
 
The Book of Genesis
Readings in Genesis - An introduction
Readings in Genesis - The Enuma Elish 
Genesis 1:1-5 - Readings in Genesis - Overcoming chaos and darkness
Genesis 1:4 - 2:3 - Readings in Genesis - And it was good  
A Sermon Draft - Genesis 2 - Paradise  
Genesis 4:1-16 - Readings in Genesis - What will we do when it all goes wrong? 
Genesis 4-5 - Readings in Genesis - Lamech and Lamech  
Genesis 6-9 - Readings in Genesis - The Flood: A first reading  
Genesis 6-9 - Readings in Genesis - What God saw 
Genesis 8:20 - 9:17 - Readings in Genesis - I am remembered 
Genesis 2:21 - 3:24 - God's Kitchen 
 
The Book of Ecclesiastes
Waiting for Affect
 
The Psalms
Psalm 23 and John 10:11-19 - Living in the Long Paddock
 Isaiah
Isaiah 8:11 - 9:7 (Matthew 4:1-25 ) - Gasping for air in the kingdom
Jeremiah
Jeremiah 8, Luke 14 - In the hands of the Potter or the Politicians?
 
Ezekiel
Ezekiel 34 - Sheep among the Wolves of War - Anzac, John 10

Ezekiel 37:1-14 - Bedrock (Pentecost Reflections)
 
Seasons
The Season of Creation
Forest Sunday
Forest Sunday - The Good the Bad and the Hope
Land Sunday - The Land and the Peoples of the Land
Wilderness Sunday - Wondering through Wilderness
River Sunday - O Sisters, Let's Go Down


Good Friday
Something Happened
 

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