Worship
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May 18, 2025
In today’s gospel reading, we hear the call and commandment of Jesus, that we, ‘love one another.’ We are now facing the challenges of living out the conviction that Jesus Christ did rise from death. The challenges of living out the conviction in this troubled and troubling twenty-first century of ours can feel overwhelming. As the Easter season comes to an end, we know the place we meet the risen Lord is where we make our home and live our lives.
May 11, 2025
Jesus called people, as he announced good news and proclaimed Gods’ kingdom. Discovering what God would have us be, and have us do in the wider community, begins with worship, the liturgical life of the community. The beating heart of our life together is the liturgy, the Holy Eucharist, the Mass. The liturgy begins with the Gathering of the community. Our coming together, our assembling for Mass is more than our walking into the church and taking a seat. We are the people of God, a community bonded together by the Holy Spirit.
May 4, 2025
Discover how ordinary people, just like us, experienced life-altering encounters with the risen Jesus, from Paul’s dramatic conversion to Peter’s miraculous catch after a night of nothing. This sermon explores these powerful stories, revealing how the risen Christ continues to break into our lives today with the same transformative power. Prepare to be inspired and challenged to recognize the living Christ in your own journey.
April 27, 2025
Father Keith Buckingham, Honorary Assistant at St Barnabas, brings Easter to life as he bathes us with several beautiful Easter passages, calls us to share the good news of Easter in the world, and cites ways in which he experiences the Easter message in the life and ministries of St Barnabas’ Church.
April 20, 2025
Alleluia!! Christ is risen! Today and for the next 2 Sundays our gospel readings feature encounters with the risen Lord. These encounters varied, but led the earliest followers of Jesus to deeper faith and transformed lives. More than 100 generations have passed since those encounters but followers of Jesus today continue to encounter the risen Christ in faith deepening and life transforming ways.
April 13, 2025
St Paul exhorts the church to put on the mind of Christ (Philippians 2:5), that is to adopt Christ Jesus’ attitude, perspective, priorities, his way of thinking and living. The reading of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ on Passion Sunday, and the services of Holy Week afford us an excellent opportunity to focus on the mind of Christ. Luke’s account of Jesus’ last days, sheds particular light on Jesus’ innocence, his compassion and mercy, and the way in which he focused on the marginalized. By God’s grace, we are called to share Jesus’ attitude, perspective and priorities as we live out our lives.
April 6, 2025
This sermon focuses on Paul’s deep desire to know Christ intimately, sharing in his sufferings and the power of his resurrection, ultimately becoming Christlike. Paul’s relentless pursuit of this “prize” – a full, experiential union with God – exemplifies a life of faith that presses forward, setting aside past achievements. This echoes Mary’s selfless act of anointing Jesus’ feet, a profound expression of devotion and foreshadowing of his sacrifice, demonstrating the kind of intimate connection and valuing of Christ that Paul so earnestly sought.
March 30, 2025
In this sermon, Lay Reader Roger Tulk recounts the parable of the Prodigal Son and its importance to modern Christians.
March 23, 2025
Jesus is presented two events that prompt reflection on why bad things happen. Jesus’ response to these events is a call to repentance rather than assigning blame. Jesus follows up with a parable of a barren fig tree and the gardener’s intervention in an effort to get the tree to bear fruit. Perhaps unwanted events in our lives are means by which we are prompted to greater faithfulness.
March 16, 2025
Today’s lectionary provides us three readings set in very different contexts (Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18; Philippians 3:17-4:1; Luke 13:31-35). The common thread is that our identity is found in our eternal relationship with God and his son Jesus Christ.