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iGod St Matthew-in-the-City — 372 episodes

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Ordinary Sunday 16 Year A

2

Ordinary Sunday 15 Year A

3

Connection...Hope...Connecting

4

Forsaking a Cautious Faith

5

What do you expect? Don't tell me show me

6

Stirred, shaken with a touch of wild honey

7

Living in the time between

8

Walking upright – using both feet

9

Apocalypse Not Quite Yet

10

Remembrance Day 2013

11

The advantage of running on empty

12

Thank God We Are Not Like Them

13

The shameful judge and the shameless widow

14

Bouncers at the Door?

15

My cup, not America's, runneth over

16

Risky and Provocative Hospitality

17

The Dishonest Manager

18

Five Pebbles

19

Consider the Glowworm

20

An Open Policy: clubs, baptism, and grace

21

Holy Communion: Recognizing Who We Are

22

Faith is spelt RISK

23

This is my Song

24

Pray Naked

25

What makes us tick

26

Kauwhau for St Matthews

27

Hospitality to and Friendship with God

28

The Politics of Holiness v The Politics of Compassion

29

Humans Made God?

30

Dancing with the Divine Child

31

Trinity

32

Fire in the Soul: Pentecost

33

Unity Not Conformity

34

What are We Waiting For?

35

The Greater Law of Love

36

Not About Happy Endings

37

The Resurrection of Peter

38

The Dynamics of Doubt

39

I Deny the Resurrection....Yeah, Right!

40

Judas

41

Waiting for the Messiah

42

Bizarre Extravagance

43

Lot's of Forgiveness Whether Asked for or Not

44

The Shadow Knows

45

Connected Prayer

46

Bread and the Living Wage

47

Flopping on the Beach

48

WWJD 2013?

49

Unity Beyond Belief

50

The God Connection

51

Grinning Ear to Ear

52

Christmas Reclaimed

53

Christmas Kindness

54

The Dethronement of God

55

Gaza Advent

56

Faith is Not Knowing

57

More than Sheep Manure

58

A Song of Revolution

59

Blessed are those who keep going

60

At the Heart of the Matter

61

God's Gift of Music

62

Africa: An Insider's View

63

Original Sin, Original Redemption

64

Scripture, Divorce and a Hard Heart

65

Oppositional Tables

66

To Dream of a World of No Violence and No Violated

67

Jesus the Parable

68

An Offensive Gospel

69

A Liberal History

70

The Power of Prayer: Pussy Riot Tries the Church

71

Are You Beyond the Pale?

72

There is a bus shelter for the night

73

A Conversation with the President of NZ's Council of Trade Unions

74

Those Who Spoke the Justice of God to Those Whom It Would Disturb

75

Feel the Fear and Say It Anyway

76

Vermont Strong

77

Behold the Lamb of God

78

Weeds, Hospitality, and Constraints

79

A Pilgrim's Progress

80

Trinity: A Way of Communion

81

The Festival of Intelligible Communication

82

The Toes of Christ

83

The Hope of Easter: Spiritual Anarchy

84

Walking the Labyrinth of Faith

85

Story Time

86

Pig Theology

87

Episode 291

88

Paradox Now

89

Same-Sex Marriage

90

More than Skin Deep

91

Name it, Shame it & Contain it

92

A Tough Question

93

Resolving to Find Purpose

94

#Occupy our Billboard

95

Mary's Way

96

Four Traditions of Christmas

97

Had Enough Yet?

98

Episode 197

99

God is the Good We Do

100

Are you there God? it’s me E.T.

101

A Rhinoceros He Doth Make

102

Outrageous Humility

103

The Last Chapter

104

Dan's Groin and the Kingdom of Heaven

105

The Basis of a Progressive Ethic

106

St Matthew's Day 2011

107

Send Them Away

108

What the Bleep do I Know -- A Journey to Wealth & Back

109

Baby in the Bulrushes

110

Torturing for Jesus?

111

Power and Truth

112

Conflict: A Christian Tradition

113

Sex in the pulpit

114

Grounded in the Gospel of Mark

115

A Purple Process

116

Slap, Bang, Wallop!

117

Judge What is Right

118

Filling Up the Tomb

119

Love; be easy, and be warm, Find the fire beyond the form.

120

The Anglican Empire and the Oppressive Myth of Unity

121

Codswallop!

122

Asking Judas for Forgiveness

123

Post-Judgment Day

124

A Byte of the Apple

125

Coin of the Realm

126

The High Cost of Being a Passionate Believer

127

Welcome to the Kingdom of Nobodies

128

Fessing Up?!

129

Hopes Realized

130

An Unchurched God

131

A Risky Love Affair

132

Dismantling the Sacred

133

Semper Fi Simon

134

Don't leave 5 minutes before the miracle

135

The Sixth Sense

136

Being Church

137

It is what it is, says Love

138

Progressive Angst

139

The Waiting Place

140

Remembering Easter

141

The Sultry Easter Anzac Tango

142

The Problem with Resurrection

143

Disturbing the Peace

144

Took, Blessed, Broke and Gave

145

Take a Walk through Holy Week

146

The Smell of Empathy

147

Love's Fool

148

Come to the Water

149

The Failure of Abraham

150

A Lusterless Lent

151

Pray, Move, Jump

152

Open Waters

153

Love Your Enemies...You Made Them

154

How Important is Unity?

155

What's Up?

156

Beware of the Sacred

157

Grace upon Grace

158

The Law of Unintended Consequences

159

Virgin Mirth

160

Billboard Madness

161

Christmas Theologies and Billboards

162

Going Bush

163

What's in a Name?

164

Walls, Freedom & God

165

Remembrance Day 2009 Address

166

Broken lines and Rough Surfaces

167

The Less Easy Route: a tribute to Nelson Mandela

168

Believing is Seeing

169

Heal the Sick

170

It’s about the Money Stupid!

171

SPCA Animal Blessing

172

Does God play Dice?

173

When is vice a virtue?

174

The Longing for Peace

175

Wisdom for Dummies, Chapter Three: Know Yourself

176

The Syro-Phoenician Woman: A Covenant of Risk

177

Wisdom for Dummies, Chapter Two: Holy Now

178

Imagine

179

Wisdom for Dummies

180

Dwelling in Grace--Imitators of God

181

Foolishly Speaking Truth to Power

182

Power to Love

183

Faithing

184

The Light Fantastic

185

Would Jesus Smack a Child?

186

The Peter Question: To Lock Down or Open Up?

187

Lost in Lament

188

Confirmation

189

The Music of God: A tribute to Franz Joseph Haydn

190

The Music of Trinity

191

Out of Eden

192

Taking leave of the Three-Tiered Universe

193

New Growth

194

Knocking at the Church Door

195

Love Your Enemies

196

The Quickening

197

We Quasimodos

198

New World

199

It is what it is.

200

Our Freedom and Our Truth

201

Facing Fear

202

Cynthia Bourgeault "We are entering a new axial age"

203

Different Time. Different Place. Same Story.

204

“The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling!”

205

Clark Kent, Frodo Baggins, and Jesus

206

Go Figure

207

A Personal Bubble

208

Jesus' Socio-Economic Stimulus Package

209

Visitors, Demons, and Rattlesnakes

210

Discovery of the Soul

211

Sitting under a Fig Tree

212

The Theory of God

213

The Power of One

214

The Wisdom of Following A Star

215

The Battle for Control of Christmas

216

The Spirituality of the Common Good

217

Rabbit-Hole Sunday

218

The Vision of John the Baptist and the Vision of Jesus

219

The Man Who Wouldn’t Be King

220

Rewriting the Past

221

Saints in Progress

222

The Ingredients of Heaven and Happiness

223

A Progressive Pathway

224

No Shirt, No Shoes, No Salvation

225

Meltdown

226

Hell No

227

Blowing the Gospel

228

Until the day break and the shadows flee away

229

One More Hypocrite...

230

Being and Becoming

231

Upon This Flawed Rock I Will Build My Church: A tribute to Peter

232

Journey in Aotearoa

233

Lazarus At Lambeth

234

Blinded by the Bible

235

Can you hear what I am saying?

236

Spiritual Paths

237

I know I am a priest, but am I a Christian?

238

Heartening Actions and Reflections

239

The Impossible Dream

240

The Valley of the Shadow

241

Confirmation Reflections & Remembrances

242

A Sneaky Outside Hope

243

Fluid Not Fixed

244

A New Hat for Pentecost

245

The Liturgy of Protest

246

Can God Be Disguised As A Prostitute?

247

The Way of the Samaritan

248

Where is Emmaus Anyway?

249

Where is Emmaus Anyway?

250

The Truth of Easter

251

The Concrete Cracks

252

Season of the Shadow

253

Feet

254

Hell Week

255

Dem Dry Bones

256

The Heart of a Leader

257

Haunted by Waters

258

Fasting In Lent

259

Light A Candle: a new liturgy for Lent

260

An Oxymoron Sunday

261

Wonder Lost

262

The Real Star of Christmas

263

Shovelling Muck: A Christmas Tale

264

Advent Hope

265

Pregnant and Left Behind

266

Rope Weaving

267

What Christians can learn from Islam

268

Ignoring Jesus

269

The Problem with Saints

270

The Long Road to Justice

271

A Right Pain In the Neck: The Widow and Judge

272

Nine to One Odds

273

Questions & Answers to Bishop Spong's address Jesus the God Experience

274

Bishop Spong speaks on Jesus the God Experience

275

Beyond the Club

276

Questions & Answers to Bishop Spong's address Jesus the Jew

277

Bishop Spong speaks on Jesus the Jew

278

Questions & Answers to Bishop Spong's address Jesus the Man

279

Bishop Spong speaks on Jesus the Man

280

Spong preaches on "The 17 Most Boring Verses in the Bible"

281

Bishop Spong takes on the Bible

282

Scumbags for Jesus

283

O Sinner God Where Ya Goin' Run To

284

The Potter and the Clay

285

Dying Laughing

286

Holiness is Out and About

287

Five Smooth Stones

288

Chasing Wind

289

Chicken and Barley Soup

290

The Power of the Devil

291

God is irrational, and wants us to be the same

292

Joan Chittister visits St Matthew's, Questions & Answers

293

Winter Soup

294

Land of Lakes Choir Boys @ St Matthew's

295

Shock and Awe

296

The Rattle of Chains

297

To Forgive is Human

298

Barnabas

299

High Up And Almost Hidden

300

Your one wild and precious life

301

Is God a Christian?

302

Who Needs Healing?

303

Rubbish Bin Bear

304

Pooh's Prayer

305

Blessings and Bears

306

The Easter Prison Break

307

The Fall Guy

308

So It Goes...

309

Shed the Trappings of Death

310

The Valley Of Shadow

311

Who Cleans Up the Mess?

312

God, This Sucks!

313

A Time To Jump

314

I Want It All

315

Fig Trees and Appendectomies

316

The Divinity of Jesus

317

A Necessary Evil

318

The Oak in Aotearoa

319

Ka Ora Te Iwi

320

Living the Abundant Life

321

Penguins, Reality, and Enemies

322

Expelling the Cosmic Superman

323

I Believe in Santa

324

Children's Christmas Service Highlights

325

When...?

326

The Left Behind Game

327

How Do You Understand Christmas?

328

A Mustardseed for Justice in Aotearoa

329

Remembrance Day 2006

330

A CyberStone Kingdom

331

Ruth and Naomi -- Workers of Salvation

332

Rebellious Saints

333

The Disproportionate Cross

334

How Jesus Doesn't Manage

335

Headline: Preaching Eternal Life Closes Church

336

Eternal Life: An Inconvenient Truth

337

Beware of the God

338

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

339

Crossing the Theological Threshold: the journey from house to ship

340

Honk If You Love Pluto

341

Messiahs are from Mars;Syrophoenician Women are from Venus

342

Getting Grubby @ Dinner

343

Eucharist: Energy Bar or After-dinner Mint?

344

Preaching Out of the Barrel

345

Off the Leash! God on the Loose.

346

In Memory of Mary

347

The Treasures of the Church

348

Sacred Cows make the best Big Macs

349

JAFA in Exile

350

Tikanga Love

351

Here Am I... Damn it!

352

Happy Birthday

353

Kissing Camels and Other Acts of Faith (Just a Man, Pt 3)

354

Abiding Love in Cities

355

I Heard it Through the Grapevine

356

Heart Work

357

He is Still Just a Man

358

Easter Concert

359

Resurrection and You

360

Stainer's Oratorio - The Crucifixion

361

The Fish

362

The Christmas Code

363

Slow God

364

Prejudice

365

Champagne News

366

He Taura Whiri

367

Presumption is the Mother of All Stuff-Ups!

368

Hole in the Roof Gang

369

Shekel-a-Dozen Messiah

370

Bishop's Confirmation Message

371

Passiontide

372

He's Just a Man