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Reflections 27 May – 2 June
We are living stones on a construction site that is never finished, assembling a church from improbable materials. In life, love one another deeply, be hospitable without complaining. Let the word dwell in you richly. These small graces, it turns out, are the hardest and the holiest.
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Reflections 20 – 26 May
Paul commends the church not to a strategy but to grace. The resurrection splits every room — incomprehensible to power, indispensable to believers. The Spirit arrives as wind, not memorandum, and everyone hears in their own tongue. These readings trace a faith that ends without endings, and a story whose next chapter is ours to…
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Reflections 13 – 19 May
Tracing a church still finding its shape — learning that seeking matters more than certainty, that showing up matters more than being remembered, and that the Spirit moves not through the confident and the polished but through those willing to begin again with what is incomplete.
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Reflections 6 – 12 May
The Spirit moves ahead of our debates, slipping past the gates we build and settling among those we least expect. God keeps rewriting the boundaries of belonging. Faith begins not in arguments won but in the courage to be surprised by grace.
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Reflections 29 April – 5 May
“Thin places” — those moments where heaven presses close to ordinary life. From Nazareth’s blind familiarity to Paul rising after being left for dead, these readings trace a God who speaks through the overlooked, redirects the willing, and refuses to be contained. What if the grace we’re searching for is already here, wearing a familiar…
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Reflections 22 – 28 April
22 April, Wednesday Severe persecution scattered them throughout the regions; the seed that is not scattered cannot take root anywhere beyond where it already is. Those who were scattered went from place to place proclaiming the word; displacement and proclamation are not opposites in this story. Unclean spirits came out crying with loud shouts; liberation…
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Luke 24:13-35 (NRSV)
Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing him. And…
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Reflections 15 – 21 April
When the prison doors swing open at night, freedom isn’t an invitation to hide — it’s a summons back to the place of danger. From flogged apostles leaving the council rejoicing to Stephen’s face shining before men too hardened to see it, these times pulse with one unsettling truth: the Spirit moves not around suffering…
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Reflections 8 – 14 April
8 April, Wednesday The man at the gate Beautiful had been there every day; proximity to the holy place is no guarantee of encounter with the holy. Peter and John had neither silver nor gold; what they offered instead was the only currency that never devalues. Healing happens through the name, not through the healers;…
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Reflections 1 – 7 April 2026
Betrayal hides in the ordinary — passed bread, shared cups, small surrenders before the larger fall. Yet the same table that holds our turning away also holds our return. Joy and fear occupy the same body; the Resurrection does not tidy away the trembling. It sends us running into Galilee, toward everyone — because the…
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