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Palm Sunday 6th Sunday in Lent Year A April 5, 2020 St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Parish of Indooroopilly The Rev’d Ann Edwards This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29Matthew 21: 1-11Isaiah 50:4-9aPsalm 31: 9-18Philipians 2:5-11Matthew 26:14 -27:66 This Palm Sunday, we stand at the cusp of Lent … Read more
SERMON St Andrew’s Anglican Church of Indooroopilly Isaiah 58.1-9a Psalm 112 1 Corinthians 2.1-13 Matthew 5.13-20 Fifth Sunday after Epiphany: Sunday 9 January The joy of an unfinished story ©Suzanne Grimmett I used to need to know the end of every story but these days I only need the start to get me going. So … Read more
SERMON Sunday 26 January, 2020 Isaiah 9.1-4 Psalm 27.1-10 1 Corinthians 1.10-18 Matthew 4.12-25 Being the lucky country ©Suzanne Grimmett Aristotle once defined luck as “when the guy next to you gets hit with the arrow”. Most of us would agree, I think, that this definition still has uncomfortable potency in what it says about … Read more
SERMON Second Sunday after Epiphany Sunday 18 January 2020 Isaiah 49.1-7 Ps 40.1-14 1 Corinthians 1.1-19 John 1.29-42 Seeing through the cracks ©Suzanne Grimmett Alice laughed: “There’s no use trying,” she said; “one can’t believe impossible things.” “I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was younger, I always did it … Read more
SERMON St Andrew’s Church of Indooroopilly Sunday 12 January 2020 The Baptism of Jesus Isaiah 42.1-9 Psalm 29 Acts 10.34-43 Matthew 3.13-17 The strange righteousness of God ©Suzanne Grimmett I once was in a church gathering where a man stood up and expressed a wish that we could just get back to teaching and following … Read more
SERMON St Andrew’s Parish of Indooroopilly The Feast of Epiphany Sunday 5 January 2020 Isaiah 60.1-6 Psalm 72.1-7,10-14 Ephesians 3.1-12 Matthew 2.1-12 Aligning heaven and earth ©Sue Grimmett The sign of a star in the sky is full of symbolic power. Perhaps it is because in amongst darkness is when they shine the brightest. As … Read more
SERMON Advent 4 Sunday 22 December 2018 Isaiah 7:10-16; Romans 1:1-7; Matthew 1. 18-25 What are we waiting for? © Ann Edwards Advent is a time for watchful waiting, but do we know what we’re waiting for? To answer that, we’re going to explore the names for Jesus today, but before we begin, can I … Read more
SERMON Advent 3 Sunday 15 December Isaiah 35.1-10 Song of Mary James 5.7-10 Matthew 11. 2-12 Oppression is a habit ©Sue Grimmett Sister Margie Tuite was a lifelong advocate for civil rights and women’s equality, especially among poor women in Central America. Once when she was giving a talk, she drew stick figures on the … Read more
SERMON 9th Sunday after Pentecost Sunday 11 August, 2019 Isaiah 1.1, 10-20 Psalm 50.1-8, 23-24 Hebrews 11.1-3. 8-16 Luke 12. 32-40 The surprising gift of community ©Sue Grimmett In a recent presentation given by Johann Hari entitled “Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong”, an experiment is described that has been formative for … Read more
SERMON Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Sunday 10 February Isaiah 6.1-8 Psalm 138 1 Corinthians 15.1-11 Luke 5.1-11 Forget fear and give in to adventure © Sue Wilton “Once….” begins today’s Gospel reading. It is a word that does function rather like the fairy tale “Once upon a time…” beginning, meaning that this is not a … Read more