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Reflections from Richmond Uniting
by Richmond Uniting Church
Reflections from Richmond Uniting Church
Episodes
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‘See, I am making all things new’ Revelation 21.5
Online worship for Sunday 15 May 2022 Everyone is welcome at worship at Richmond Uniting. Here we seek to create prayerful space to engage seriously with the biblical text and questions of faith, doubt and life. For those who cannot join us in-person worship we are offering two ways of connecting...
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And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes
Online worship for Sunday 8 May 2022 Revelation 7.17 Everyone is welcome at worship at Richmond Uniting. Here we seek to create prayerful space to engage seriously with the biblical text and questions of faith, doubt and life. For those who cannot join us in-person worship we are offering two…
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Supposing him to be the gardener
Easter Day 2022 reflection Sunday 17 April 2022 Everyone is welcome at worship at Richmond Uniting. Here we seek to create prayerful space to engage seriously with the biblical text and questions of faith, doubt and life. For those who cannot join us in-person worship we are offering two ways of...
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The unpower of God
Good Friday 2022 reflection Everyone is welcome at worship at Richmond Uniting. Here we seek to create prayerful space to engage seriously with the biblical text and questions of faith, doubt and life. For those who cannot join us in-person worship we are offering two ways of connecting with our...
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Palm Sunday: The unexpected kingdom embodied
Online worship for Sunday 10 April 2022 Everyone is welcome at worship at Richmond Uniting. Here we seek to create prayerful space to engage seriously with the biblical text and questions of faith, doubt and life. For those who cannot join us in-person worship we are offering two ways of…
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The fragrance filled the house
Online worship for Sunday 3 April 2022 Exploring the story of Mary anointing Jesus in John’s Gospel (John 12.1-8). Everyone is welcome at worship at Richmond Uniting. Here we seek to create prayerful space to engage seriously with the biblical text and questions of faith, doubt and life. For…
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Grace beyond imagining
Online worship for Sunday 27 March 2022 This Sunday in the audio reflection we engage with Jesus’ story of the wayward son in Luke 15 with the practice of Imaginative Prayer. To find out more about this prayer style go to: https://richmond.unitingchurch.org.au/2020/12/imaginative-prayer/ Everyone...
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What if there is not always a reason for suffering?
Online worship for Sunday 20 March 2022 Exploring Luke 13.1-9 on the third Sunday in Lent. Everyone is welcome at worship at Richmond Uniting. Here we seek to create prayerful space to engage seriously with the biblical text and questions of faith, doubt and life. For those who cannot join us...
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Turning from guilt towards compassion
Online worship for Sunday 5 March 2022 Everyone is welcome at worship at Richmond Uniting. Here we seek to create prayerful space to engage seriously with the biblical text and questions of faith, doubt and life. For those who cannot join us in-person worship we are offering two ways of…
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Speaking the truth in love
Online worship for Sunday 1 August 2021 We are gathering live in person for worship this Sunday 1 August. If you are unable to join us in person, please find below an audio recording of the reading from Ephesians 4.1-16 for this Sunday and the reflection and wondering questions. This Sunday we...
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The end of a chapter and a challenge
After a year of providing pre-recorded audio online worship resources because of COVID-19 this is now coming to an end, as lockdowns have lifted in Melbourne and people can attend face to face worship. Down the track we may explore audio recording the live reflection in worship and posting this...
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Listening to the Women
Worship resources for Easter Sunday 4 April On this Easter Day Rev Dr Sally Douglas challenges us to listen to the women apostles - Mary the Magdalene, Salome and the other Mary - attending to both their words and experiences (it is an ancient and contemporary challenge to listen to, and believe,...
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The violence of the mob and the unpower of God
Worship resources for Good Friday 2 April In this worship for Good Friday Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to notice the violent mob mentality of the crowd in this story and to reflect on the shocking 'un-power' of God revealed to us in Jesus. In Jesus, the human desire for violence and power…
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Do you believe in an interventionist God?
Online worship resources for Sunday 28 March This week, Palm Sunday, as we hear about Jesus entering Jerusalem, Rev Dr Sally Douglas challenges us to take seriously that in Jesus understandings of divine power are undone. The power that Jesus embodies looks like nothing like the empire’s power....
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What is Christianity for?
Online worship resources for Sunday 21 March This Sunday, the fifth Sunday in Lent, Rev Dr Sally Douglas challenges us to take seriously Jesus’ claim in John’s Gospel that all people will be gathered in and included in the divine embrace and she invites us to wrestle with the question ‘what is...
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The journey from fear into love
Online worship resources for Sunday 14 March This Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Jesus’ claims in John 3 that G*d’s movement, G*d’s nature and G*d’s being are shaped by love and not judgement. Today we are challenged to explore the call of journey...
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Anger is an energy
Online worship for Sunday 7 March This Sunday, the third Sunday in Lent, we explore the extraordinary account of Jesus in the temple overturning tables. Here Jesus is not meek or mild, instead Jesus is angry, loud and disruptive. Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us into the complexity of this reading...
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Stop glorifying suffering! What denying self and taking up cross might mean.
Online worship resources for Sunday 28 February This week, the second Sunday in Lent, Rev Dr Sally Douglas challenges us to explore Jesus’ call to deny self and take up cross in Mark 8.31-38 within its context. Beyond dangerous ideas that can contribute to the glorification of suffering, in Jesus...
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Facing the reality of evil
Online worship resources for Sunday 21 February This week, the first Sunday in Lent, we journey with Jesus into the wilderness as he faces the accuser. As we explore this reading, Rev Dr Sally Douglas challenges us to face the reality of evil within our global village instead of being constantly...
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Thinking about G*d’s glory
Online Worship for 14 February 2021 This week in the reflection Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to engage with the story of the transfiguration of Jesus and to read this within its wider context in Mark’s Gospel. In particular we are invited to reflect on the ‘upside down’ glory of G*d revealed…
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What does discipleship actually look like?
Online worship for 2 February 2021 This week in worship the readings are Psalm 147.1-11 and Mark 1.29-39. Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Mark's Gospel, where we discover a very different understanding of discipleship. Rather than ‘leaving everything’, in Mark’s Gospel we find the...
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Unexpected God, unexpected answers
Online Worship for 27 December 2020 The audio worship does not include a full service, because you are invited to utilise this liturgy if you cannot join us for contemplative worship in person on Sunday 27 December. The audio includes the bible readings for the day and a brief reflection on Luke...
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You are not failing at Christmas if you don’t feel the joy
Online worship for Christmas Day, 25 December 2020 This Christmas Day Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us beyond the ‘santafication’ of Christmas (in which God and Santa get confused) and beyond the assumption that we should be having an ‘awesome’ time because it is Christmas Day. Instead, drawing…
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Mary is more than her sexual status!
Online worship for Sunday 20 December This Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Advent, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Luke 1.26-56. Sally invites us beyond saccharine images of Mary and the baby Jesus - and beyond obsessive focus on Mary’s sex life - to attend to the disruptive theology…
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Beyond foreboding – the invitation into the practice of cultivating joy
Online worship for Sunday 13 December This Sunday, the third Sunday in Advent, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Isaiah 61 and John 1 and to explore the idea of joy. Sally challenges us to move beyond the idea that we can only taste joy when everything is sorted and the lie that daring...
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What if peace is not the absence of conflict?
Online worship for Sunday 6 December This Sunday, the second Sunday in Advent, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Mark 1.1-8 and to explore what peace might be, if we are followers of Jesus. Beyond the idea of peace as the absence of conflict, we are challenged to think about peace as…
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Hope is not a strategy
Online worship for Sunday 29 November This Sunday, the first Sunday in Advent, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Mark 13.24-37 and to explore idea of hope. Sally invites us beyond the idea of hope as wishful (or deluded) thinking and into a robust understanding of Christian hope that...
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Meeting God on the edges
Online worship for Sunday 22 November In this audio form of worship Rev Dr Sally Douglas introduces a Pentecost Season Table Liturgy and invites us to participate at home in this worship over a meal. See the PDF of the Table Liturgy below. The audio worship does not include a full service…
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What are the stories you tell?
Online worship for Sunday 15 November This Sunday Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Matthew 25.14-30 and to explore the questions of what stories we tell about ourselves, others, the church and God. Sally invites us to notice the ways in which these stories impact on our experiences of...
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What sustains you in the long dark night of the soul?
Online worship for Sunday 8 November This Sunday Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into Matthew 25.1-13. As we dive into this story Jesus tells we explore the idea of apocalyptic thinking and reflect on the question of what actually sustains us in the long dark night of the soul. If you…
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Death, the Afterlife and Judgement
Online worship for Sunday 1 November On this All Saints Day Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to explore the tricky topics of death, the afterlife and judgement. Reflecting on Matthew 5.1-12, Revelation 7.9-17 and Colossians 1.15-20 Sally invites us to engage with the claim that the heart of the...
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What is the point?
Online worship resources for Sunday 25 October In this audio form of worship Rev Dr Sally Douglas introduces a Table Liturgy for the Season of Pentecost and invites us to participate in this worship over a meal. Download the PDF of the Table Liturgy. This week's audio worship does not include a...
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Doubts, Domesticating God and the Call Into Wild Faith
Richmond Uniting online worship 18 October 2020 Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to explore the double temptation of suppressing our doubts and domesticating God as we reflect on Exodus 33.12-23 and Matthew 22.15-22. Sally challenges us to engage with wild faith, in which we are honest about our...
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Hell talk, spiritual abuse and idols
Richmond Uniting online worship 11 October 2020 Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to explore the so called “Christian” claim that people are going to hell if they don’t believe certain things about Jesus. We reflect on Exodus 32.1-14, Phil 4.1-9 and dive deeply into Matthew 22.1-14, and its...
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Richmond Uniting online worship 4 October 2020
Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to explore why some people are denying the seriousness of Covid-19. We wrestle with the shadow-side of contemporary forms of spirituality and engage with the Divine call into collective responsibility, as we reflect on the 10 Commandments in Exodus 20.1-4, 7-9…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 27 September 2020
In this audio form of worship Rev Dr Sally Douglas introduces a Pentecost Season Table Liturgy and invites us to participate at home in this worship over a meal. See the PDF of the Table Liturgy below. The audio worship does not include a full service, because we are all invited to utilise this...
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Richmond Uniting online worship 20 September 2020
Never enough? What might life be like beyond scarcity narratives? This week we continue to explore the epic story of the people of Israel in Exodus 16.2-15, as well as Matthew 20.1-16. Now, liberated from slavery in Egypt, God’s people are captive to the fear that there is not enough. Rev Dr…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 13 September 2020
What does forgiving others mean? This week we continue to listen to the confronting story of Israel being liberated from Egypt in Exodus 14.19-31 and we explore Matthew 18.21-35. Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to think about what forgiving others means in light of Jesus’ command to call...
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Richmond Uniting online worship 6 September 2020
When Christians confuse loving enemies with being nice or tolerating abuse This week we explore the epic story of Israel being liberated from Egypt in Exodus 12.1-14 and we explore Matthew 18.15-20. Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to think about evil, liberation and what Jesus’ call to love…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 30 August 2020
What does ‘taking up your cross’ mean? This week, as we explore Matthew 16.21-28, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to reflect on what Jesus really means when he says ‘take up your cross’. Beyond the notion of ‘we all have our cross to bear’ we discover that here we are called into the radical...
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Richmond Uniting online worship 23 August 2020
Reflecting on Exodus 1.8-2.10, Romans 12.1-8, Matthew 16.13-20 Scapegoats, collective violence and working with Spirit to do what we can… In this audio form of worship Rev Dr Sally Douglas introduces a Pentecost Season Table Liturgy and invites us to participate at home in this worship over a…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 16 August 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 16 August. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and...
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Richmond Uniting online worship 9 August 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 9 August. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 2 August 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 2 August. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 26 July 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 26 July. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 19 July 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 19 July. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 12 July 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 12 July. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 5 July 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 5 July. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible...
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Richmond Uniting online worship 28 June 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship resources for Sunday 28 June. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and…
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Richmond Uniting online worship 21 June 2020
Welcome to Richmond Uniting’s Worship for Sunday 21 June. We are currently not worshipping as a gathered community due to the COVID–19 pandemic – but we are still worshipping together in new ways. This audio recording can be used for worship at home, along with prayer resources and bible readings...
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