In the Communion we have a witness of our growth into one body with Christ such that whatever is his may be called ours. We may dare assure ourselves that eternal life, of which he is the heir, is ours; and that the Kingdom of Heaven, into which he has entered, can no more be…
Christ appointed the two forms of bread and wine, rather than any other, as a further indication of the very union and fellowship which is in this sacrament. For there is no more intimate, deep, and indivisible union than the union of food with him or her who is fed. For the food enters into…
Gregory, died 381 AD, was one of the three Cappadocian Fathers who helped the church hold to the understanding of the Trinity. He chaired the Council of Constantinople in 381AD, which finalised the Nicene Creed. Yesterday the Lamb was slain and the doorposts were anointed, and Egypt bewailed her firstborn, and the Destroyer passed…
Mariam Metias is from Egypt. She has been in Australia just over one year. The Meditation below has been slightly edited with her permission. Mariam has recently become a member of our church. She and her son John are very much loved by the Sunset Rock congregation. Human equations are very different from divine…
Life was happening as planned. The usual highs and lows. I grew up in the ’60s, my father a hard working salesman, with an even harder working stay-at-home mother to me and my seven brothers and sisters. My family was the centre of my world. I was taught to share, to stick up for myself,…
There are unexpected ways we need to learn and re-learn to claim the forgiveness won for us by Jesus Christ. Rae is now happily married. But when she was a telephonist in the 1960’s, away from her family, she fell pregnant through a fleeting relationship. It was the time when you did not usually keep…
You meet a big man with a big voice when you meet Rob. He has made his living in the business of trailer and chassis equipment. But he has not always put his energy under the direction of Jesus Christ. He used to recognise Jesus as real, but not fervently enough to go to church…
Art teacher Pauline Overbeeke discovered that all relationship is reciprocal, even relationships with the things around us, and especially relationship with God. She found it in the hardest possible way. “I did not relate to God or Jesus. Growing up, I went to Sunday school. I remember taking communion for the first time. It was…
There are central things in Danial Andaveh’s life where he would like to see the mighty hand of God displayed, and where it hasn’t happened yet. He is still waiting for permanent residence in Australia. He has lived here for nine years, since the age of fourteen or fifteen, having fled with his family from…