Latest Sermons
Its so good to be back here for the 125th anniversary of your church building. I was here in 2007 when you rededicated an extension to this beautiful sacred space.
Today is the first Sunday of advent: A liturgical season where we prepare for, wait for and celebrate the birth of Jesus.
Advent is a time for waiting. So my question for you today is - what are you waiting for? What is going on in your life that you would like resolution for?
Past sermons 2025
Past sermons 2024
Conversations enrich our lives. We could perhaps say that conversations form our lives. Conversations are part of relationships, and relationships form us.
It is St Barnabas Day - how exciting. Every year we celebrate this because St Barnabas is the person this place was named after.
The word for the day is ‘testimony’. It occurs six times in our reading from the First book of John. When we think of testimony we might think of being in court and a person gets up to give their testimony.
Our country has many primary industries - these are dairy, meat and wool, forestry and horticulture, including viticulture. In our gospel reading last week we had the image of Jesus being the good shepherd
St Paul instructed the Church in Corinth, and instructs us today, that we have been given a ministry of reconciliation. The concept of reconciliation is not easy to scope. Its boundaries are illusive
For many centuries, from almost the beginning of the history of Christianity, theologians have been trying to work out what it means to believe in a Triune God – a God who is three persons, but also one God.
Has anyone ever seen the cedars of Lebanon? Apparently they are tall trees with large trunks and massive, irregular heads of spreading branches. They can grow to a height of 40m, and there are some in New Zealand.
In 2022, Dave spent most of the year sailing a yacht back from the Caribbean to New Zealand. In the stretch between Fiji and Auckland, they got caught in a cyclone.
There was a gala dinner for the 125th anniversary of the Mission to Seafarers, and because of our making beanies and our connection with the Mission and with Lance Lukin, I was invited, on behalf of the parish.
Some of us have recently returned from the Anglo-Catholic Hui, and there we were treated to Mass every day, as well as morning prayer and night prayer.
The Anglican faith is sometimes called cradle to grave - there is a whole lifetime of being part of this faith, in this place or wherever you go.
Advent is a time for waiting. So my question for you today is - what are you waiting for? What is going on in your life that you would like resolution for?