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Warmest greetings from South Wales. In this week’s reading from Mark’s gospel, Mark 4:1-20, we find Jesus surrounded by such a huge crowd of people he climbs into a boat and pulls away from the shore a short distance to address everyone. It was probably on a stretch of coast between Capernaum and Tabgha where […]

Nga mihi mahana ki a koutou katoa hoki, ma te atua te atawhai me te rangimarie ki a koutou. Warm greetings to you again, may the grace and peace of God be with you all. Welcome to the western Julian calendar new year, I hope you have been refreshed by whatever break you have had […]

En välsignad jul till er alla, systrar och bröder i Kristus. Today’s text is from Luke, 2:1-14, the story of Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem, you have all heard it, whether you count yourself as Christian or not. It’s the story that is read in schools, churches, homes, gatherings and so on, to give us the […]

Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou; nga mihi aroha ki a koutou katoa. Deep love and Greetings to you all again, today our gospel is Matthew 1:18-24. We are three-quarters of the way through advent now, the birth of Jesus is fast approaching… Our text today really begins with yesterday’s text, the list of the […]

Womin-Jeka, (which is the local Wurundjeri indigenous phrase for welcome in my part of Australia) sisters and brothers and warm greetings from a hot Melbourne summer’s day. I trust all is well in your world in the lead up to Christmas. Today’s gospel text comes from Matthew 18:10 -14 where Jesus tells the parable of […]

Nga mihi maioha e hoa ma, rangimarie ki a koutou katoa. Greetings to you friends, may peace be with you all. The church calendar has just rolled over to the beginning of a new year with the start of Advent the other day. Advent; that time of hopeful waiting and expectancy, when we prepare to […]

Greetings from Leicester Today we find both a sobering and encouraging passage from Luke 21:12-19. Our reading comes within the context of Jesus’ warnings, of false messiahs, wars and rumours of wars, earthquakes, famines, and the destruction of the second Jerusalem temple, which happened in A.D 70, following its original destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 […]

Tena koutou katoa, nga mihi mahana ki a koutou. Warm greetings to all you’s out there, we see you. Today’s gospel text is Luke 19:11-28, the parable of the pounds. We have been reading through Luke’s gospel each day for a while now. Yesterday we read about the transformation of Zaccheus, including the redistribution of […]

Dia Dhuit ( Hello) Greetings friends, brothers & sisters on here. My offering for today comes from a background of a windy and cold island of Ireland today, as we transition into our Autumn/ Winter season. To our brothers and sisters in Australia, you are in my prayers, in respect to the Wildfires that you […]

Nga mihi mahana e hoa ma…..warm greetings friends, today’s gospel text is Luke 14:25-33. Today is also the day in Te Hahi Mihinare (The Missionary Church NZ) where we remember Te Whiti Orongomai. He is in the left side photo to my right, with his Unle Tohu beside him and some of their whanau seated […]