Lenten Lectionary – March 1

While doing my response to Sunday’s Lenten Lectionary reading I was thinking about John’s expectation that Jesus would bring down fire on his enemies, and the similar expectations of James and John (Luke 9:54) and of Danny Nalliah (from Catch the Fire Ministries).

Long Gully visit

Yesterday morning Marcus and I drove up to Long Gully, in Bendigo, to visit the Seeds mob there. They have been putting together a prayer service for Sunday, for people who’ve been affected by the bushfires that went through their neighbourhood two weeks ago. They’ve recently been given use of the old Anglican church, so [...]

A greater storm?

One of my readers, John Carlson, posted this comment last night, in response to Sue’s article, ‘Love is Always Born’:
I read Sue Hogans reflections and felt an acheing inside. Here we live through hurricaines that come the worst in august to november. Like fires we smell, feel, see, and hear the inevitable unstopable coming and [...]

Home and identity

(Photo from IFRC)
On Wednesday night I was doing a city walk with some people from St Mark’s Baptist Church in Templestow and Ormond Baptist Church. Towards the end of the walk, we were in Credo talking about what it means to be homeless. Someone mentioned how some of the people whose homes have been destroyed [...]

Silent in the Ashes

Cheryl Lawrie has organised a sacred space in response to the bushfires. 5-8pm this Saturday (February 14) in the basement at 130 Little Collins Street, Melbourne CBD.

The Unburned Bush

This is an animation about the unburned bush, which I produced for ‘Prayers for Melbourne’ at Collins Street Baptist Church, last week. I tried to upload it after I used it, but I had to work out how to make Vimeo videos work in WordPress. Then after the weekend I didn’t know if it was [...]

‘Love is Always Born’

Sue Hogan has a reflection on the Seeds website about the bushfires:
Sunday night as I prepared for bed, the worst of the fire threats gone, I found myself, rather bizarrely; collecting together things I thought I’d rather not lose. On the news I had seen so many people left with nothing, relieved to be alive [...]

The wedding and the fires

So Trav and Cara’s wedding went really well on Saturday. Extremely hot day. It was Melbourne’s hottest day on record, and it got up to at least 43°C in Ballarat. Very hot at the church, even hotter at the Botanical Gardens for wedding party photos, much nice at the racecourse in Miners Rest. I managed [...]