Synopsis
Sunday sermons preached at St. George's Anglican Church, Gate Pa, Tauranga. These are mostly based on the RCL Lectionary readings for that Sunday, with a few variations for our own lectionary in this Province, and special events here at Gate Pa.
Episodes
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Life Restored
05/06/2016 Duration: 20minJohn uses the Gospel reading (Luke 7:11-17 - the widows son restored to life) as a way of exploring Christian ethics in relation to last week’s budget and the ongoing issue around homelessness.
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Mission to Seafarers
29/05/2016 Duration: 13minThe Rev. Lance Lukin, Anglican Chaplain at the Port of Wellington, and Oceania Regional Chaplian for the Mission to Seafarers talks about this important ministry and how we can be invovled.
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Pentecost on the East Coast
15/05/2016 Duration: 28minJohn talks about how the work of the spirit allows us to ask – what does it mean, and to continue to retell and reinterpret the story of Jesus to each new situation we find ourselves in. The story of Piripi Taumata-a-kura of Ngati Porou illustrates this.
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Footprints on Mother's Day
08/05/2016 Duration: 21minOn Mothers Day, John explores what the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ offers us? He suggests that we are the people of the footprints, and uses the story of two women who helped created Mother's Day as an example
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Thoughts on Gate Pa
01/05/2016 Duration: 24minCliff offers some thoughts around the Battle of Gate Pa
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Meeting God
24/04/2016 Duration: 14minWendy uses a story about a little boy and an elderly woman's search for God to open up "John 13:31-35" - a new commandment
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Resurrection is NOW!
17/04/2016 Duration: 16minEaster is a time for us to reflect on what resurrection means for us in our daily living and our joining in mission of God. Dorcas helps us in this task
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Peter goes Fishing
10/04/2016 Duration: 13minA reflection that the story in John's gospel of the resurrected Jesus appearing to Peter and some other disciples while they are fishing
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Believing in Easter
03/04/2016 Duration: 18minJohn explores the importance of Thomas, both in the lectionary (we hear this reading on this Sunday every year) and for us; he is our guy saying the things we want to say. And we can follow his footsteps into belief if we are willing.
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What are we up to with all these Palms?
20/03/2016 Duration: 17minJohn explores what Luke might have thought was going on in this story, and then asks what do we think is going on with us as readers of this story today?
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A Fourth Way
13/03/2016 Duration: 20minJohn uses the story of the two lost sons from the previous week to enter into all that the story of Mary washing Jesus' feet offers us. We too are invited to see the world through the lens of love, the fourth way described by Brian McLaren. and Mary shows us what that looks like.
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Fig Trees and AGM’s
28/02/2016 Duration: 16minJohn invites people to reflect on this parish and their hopes for this parish and then reflect on some of the questions he keeps asking in light of that and the gospel reading for the day:•Whose are we (who is God)?•Who are we•What is ours to do?We are not called to survive or to be successful. We are called to be faithful to who we are. Ours is to be significant in these communities.
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Blessed, to be a Blessing
21/02/2016 Duration: 17minWhat pattern do we apply to scripture? What is it all about? What does all this God stuff offer us? Demand of us? God tells Abraham that he and Sarah will be blessed to be a blessing (Gen 12). That is the pattern to read scripture and understand our lives of faith by.
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Our Desires and Lent
15/02/2016 Duration: 14minJohn explores the temptations or tests of Jesus in wilderness as tests of who he is in face of three main areas of desire that confront us all. The traditional tasks of Lent, pray, fast, give, help us notice our response to these desires and to learn new ways of responding.
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A Call to Be on Waitangi Weekend
07/02/2016 Duration: 15minJohn explores the nature of our call in terms of who we are rather than what we are called to do, uses Brian McLaren’s thoughts on patterns and his thoughts on images to think about being called to be the image of God in this place at this time – what might that mean for us? And then he explores Te Tiriti in light of all that
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The Logic of Love
31/01/2016 Duration: 08minUsing Brian McLaren’s thinking in “We Make the Road by Walking” John explores the concept of Logos as the logic by which we understand creation, God, and our place in all of this, and then use 1 Cor 13:1-13 to suggest that the logic of God is Love. John then invites people to explore their own experience of the logic of love – where have you seen the logic of love – in your life, in our world?
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Standing for the Gospel
24/01/2016 Duration: 18minJohn explores why we might stand for the gospel so that people might be more thoughtful about how they do it, rather than just do it because that is what we do
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Waiting for Love
20/12/2015 Duration: 17minJohn suggests the human story of Mary and Elizabeth offer us a way into Advent and Christmas
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New Images of Joy
13/12/2015 Duration: 21minJohn explores how we might beinvited into new ways of experiencing joy this advent