iGod St Matthew-in-the-City

Guest preacher, Colin Gibson, noted New Zealand hymn composer, speaks to music's capacity to transform us, making it one of God's particularly amazing gifts. Text and video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=574&id=1311

An incredibly moving look at Africa by Bishop John Osmers who has spent 47 years ministering in Africa often at great personal sacrifice. Video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=517&id=1305

Glynn takes on Original Sin and the church's obsession with it. Text and video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=573&id=1298

In this time when the definition of marriage is once again being reexamined, Glynn looks at how Jesus took scripture and expanded on it. In doing so he honoured and challenged it. Making the point that if Scripture reinforces our hardness of heart we've got it wrong. Text and video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=572&id=1296

Dr Br Bruce-Paul SSF was the guest speaker at the celebration of St Matthew's Feast Day. While now serving in Australia he once served at St Matthew's. He addressed the tax table, a table of oppression, that Matthew left to follow Jesus to eat his table of justice and inclusion. Text and video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=574&id=1295

Glynn looks at the church's treatment of Jesus' call that those who want to be first must be last and slave of all and wonders if "servant leadership" is an oxymoron. Text and video at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=572&id=1294

Clay makes the case that Jesus is not Elijah, John the Baptist or the Messiah, but a "Challenging Parable" calling us to be the same. Text and video links available http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=573&id=1292

Clay has a bit of a rant about those who are offended by the latest billboard and points out that Jesus proclaimed his gospel by being offensive. Full text and video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=573&id=1287.

Salvation history is too often damnation history for many. Can we be saved from our salvation history? Text and video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=573&id=1284

"When Christian leaders start to equate what they find offensive with what God finds offensive, when Christian leaders start to believe criticism of them is criticism of the Church, and when Christian leaders openly seek more power in the running of the State we are far removed from the humble carpenter's son who sought to be true to a egalitarian vision of justice." ~Glynn Cardy Text and video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=572&id=1283

Clay looks at why everyone doesn't see the world like he does. What's wrong with them anyway? Text and video available at www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=573&id=1281

Linda Murphy shares the plight of the rough sleeper in Auckland now that the only emergency night shelter has closed due to lack of funding. What does that say about us? How do we respond? Text and video available at www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=574&id=1279.

Glynn has a conversation with Helen Kelly, President of NZ's Council of Trade Unions about the union movement and Living Wage Campaign. Video available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=517&id=1276.

Geno asks what is a real prophet? Did they really exist? Do they exist now? Video links and text available at www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=574&id=1272.

Glynn shares what he learned about Herod's court at the General Synod--a dangerous place if you want to keep your head from being a side course at the banquet. Text and video links available at www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=572&id=1273

Clay marvels at how those with lives that seem irreparable find healing and wholeness. http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=517&id=1270

Glynn ponders what he would die for. Text and video links available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=572&id=1268

Glynn Cardy wonders if the reign of God is like a mustard seed weed planted in the garden, can the church, any church, be equated with it? Text and video links available at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=572&id=1266.

Clay looks at where authority comes from and how do we know when it is of God. Text and video links at www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=573&id=1260

On Trinity Sunday Glynn Cardy sought to breathe new life into the doctrine by pointing out that it was born out of Jesus' earliest followers' experience of being in community. For them, God was relational. God was multiple. God was ineffable - not bounded by any form, metaphor, or speech. God was a way for them to be in community. Text and video links available at www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=572&id=1259