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We need to be really careful about how we talk about and live out “Christ the King.” It is too easy to just replicate what the rest of society expects and look no different.One way we can do that is to approach Christmas as a time of good news for all people, and to prepare in that vein, rather than just as a family time

Using Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 and Luke 17:11-19 John explores how God refuses to be pinned down by our rules and asks what rules that we have made about God do we need to let go of

John explores Luke 16:1-13, the story of the Wasteful Steward. He wonders whether he really was dishonest, or lazy. He goes on to use this story to talk about the living wage concept and the upcoming local body elections.

Uses the story of Elisha healing Naaman to look at how our God will not conform to our expectations and hopes and keeps doing the unexpected

In this sermon I explore the sending out of the seventy in Luke, using the rise of the Mendicant Orders in the Western Church. I do so in the hope that we will all hold lightly to money and grow in faith

An exploration of the New Commandment given by Jesus as recorded by John, noting that loving one another is not easy – as New Testament (Acts, Pauls writing) show or as history church shows. Our failure to live out this “simple commandment” has led directly to us standing at dawn remembering those went to war on “our behalf”. Then explore the examples of Henare Wiremu Taratoa and Heni Te Kiri Karamu as examples of the risk of loving as Christ loves “Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.”Who do we struggle to loveHow might God be inviting us to love today?