In ways this passage is about addressing the difficult issues of conflict and relational breakdown within the church. In other ways this passage is an invitation into the loosing, liberating, life giving ways of Christ. This may be a difficult passage to understand, but certainly it is a difficult passage to embrace as part of the Christian life.
Finding our true selves in Christ. Tim is joined by a rooster as we explore what it means to deny 'ourselves' and take up our crosses.
Over two thousand years ago, near Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asks Simon Peter 'who do you say that I am?". Today we are asked the same question, 'who do YOU say Jesus is?'
When Rev. Bill Crews arrived at Ashfield Uniting Church 40 years ago, he did not arrive with a plan for what the next four decades would become. Instead, people began knocking on the door.
Willoughby Northbridge Uniting Church has recently commissioned congregation member Beniah Brooks, to paint a large wall mural for the interior of the Willoughby Church site.
We come to the remarkable reading of the Canaanite woman who lunges into the life of Jesus, amongst the crowd and the disciples, and pulls him from the inconvenient interruption, back into the reality of the Christ and the way of God. A remarkable reading for us at this time also, as our minds, hopefully, are turned towards the middle east. Join us as we explore life and faith together.