A selection of sermons
Taranaki
Maunga from Manganui Gorge
Take me to the river?
Why we should not
ignore the Older Testament
11 February
2024
Maybe he is already here?
A new look at end
times theology.
26 November 2023
Reclaiming our place
A sermon about how the Church can reclaim its place
8 October 2023
True or false prophets
A sermon about information, disinformation, and media
10 September 2023
Gone to the dogs
A sermon about caring for people on the margins
20 August 2023
Colonisation and conquest
A sermon about the doctrine of discovery
23 July 2023
A strand of flax is nothing in itself
A sermon for Te Purhere Sunday
11 June 2023
A little bit brighter
A sermon about baptism and why the Church is still relevant
28 May 2023
Resurrection, atonement, and Mary Magdalene
A sermon for Easter Day
9 April 2023
No better witness
A sermon for the fourth anniversary of the Christchurch mosque shootings
12 March 2023
All of us
are one
A sermon about ecumenism
22 January 2023
Living
in faith without fear
A sermon about faith, fear, and surviving toxic fundamentalism
20 November 2022
This does not make any sense
A sermon for Trinity Sunday
12 June 2022
When we stumble
A sermon about when we mess up, and why I don't believe in hell
26 September 2021
Let's not reject grace
A sermon about hope and reconciliation
8 August 2021
Whose side are we on?
A sermon about sexual abuse in the Church
25 July 2021
They didn't know we were seeds
A sermon about the realisation of justice and peace
13 June 2021
Be drunk with love
A sermon about accepting that the Bible has some erotic content.
9 May 2021
It
really is him
A sermon about the resurrection of Jesus.
11 April 2021
What have we done to the earth?
A sermon about our violence against the earth, and climate change.
24 January 2021
Like
the Virgin?
A sermon about Mary's pregnancy and purity culture.
20 December 2020
Maybe
he is already here?
A challenge to rapture theology
8 November 2020
Hanging up our
gloves
A Christian response to the violence of the Older Testament
8 November 2020
One last time
A sermon about saying goodbye.
13 September 2020
Virgins, whores,
and tricksters: how the Bible objectifies women, and what we can do about it
A sermon about how women are portrayed in the Bible
26 July 2020
The Story of the
Bible
A sermon for National Bible Sunday
19 July 2020
Remembering
Parihaka
A sermon about Parihaka
10 November 2019
Nobody
is excluded
A sermon about exclusion, persecution, and homophobia
12 May 2019
Making
it happen
A sermon for the First in Lent
10 March 2019
What
persecution REALLY looks like
A sermon about claims of Christian persecution in western countries.
17 February 2019
Being
saved
A sermon about what it REALLY means to be 'saved'.
10 February 2019
We
don't have to agree
A sermon about living with disagreement.
9 December 2018
The
day the balloon burst
A sermon about why God allows suffering.
14 October 2018
Do
not let your hearts be troubled or afraid
A
sermon for those who have loved ones nearing the end of life's journey
4 March 2018
The
real face of the persecuted
A
sermon about what it really means to be perscuted for following Jesus today.
21 May 2017
Meeting
the Christ on the margins
A sermon about discipleship amongst the lost, the last, and the least.
30 October 2016
That's
how the light gets in
A
sermon about coping with serious offending by Church leaders
23 October 2016
Beggars
on Lambton Quay
A sermon about how we should respond to begging
25 September 2016)
Christ
or the angry crowd?
A sermon about one church's response to the Orlando Nightclub Shootings
26 June 2016
When
Christmas isn't happy
A sermon for Midnight Mass
24 December 2014
Stoning
the elephant in the room
A sermon about scandal in the Church
17 March 2013