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Reflections from Richmond Uniting

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Meeting God on the edges

Reflections from Richmond UnitingNov 21, 2020

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‘See, I am making all things new’ Revelation 21.5
May 15, 202209:12
And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes
May 07, 202213:33
Supposing him to be the gardener
Apr 16, 202209:38
The unpower of God
Apr 14, 202210:04
Palm Sunday: The unexpected kingdom embodied
Apr 09, 202216:27
The fragrance filled the house
Apr 01, 202213:32
Grace beyond imagining

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 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 worship.

You can access a pre-recording of the reflection here most weeks.

Worship is not only on Sundays at Richmond Uniting. On Wednesdays we gather online via Zoom for a contemplative Midday Prayer service. If you would like to join this service please email the office to get the Zoom Link and the liturgy: richmond.uniting@bigpond.com

Mar 26, 202211:18
What if there is not always a reason for suffering?
Mar 19, 202215:23
Turning from guilt towards compassion
Mar 19, 202213:03
Speaking the truth in love
Jul 31, 202116:18
The end of a chapter and a challenge

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 online.  But for now, as this chapter closes, Sally wanted to share a few thoughts with you - especially those of you who have been joining Richmond Uniting in online worship over this year.

Apr 03, 202105:02
Listening to the Women
Apr 03, 202112:53
The violence of the mob and the unpower of God
Apr 01, 202115:17
Do you believe in an interventionist God?
Mar 27, 202112:54
What is Christianity for?
Mar 20, 202113:37
The journey from fear into love
Mar 12, 202118:58
Anger is an energy
Mar 06, 202117:01
Stop glorifying suffering! What denying self and taking up cross might mean.
Feb 27, 202116:32
Facing the reality of evil
Feb 20, 202119:55
Thinking about G*d’s glory
Feb 12, 202113:33
What does discipleship actually look like?
Feb 06, 202118:17
Unexpected God, unexpected answers
Dec 26, 202016:58
You are not failing at Christmas if you don’t feel the joy
Dec 24, 202036:15
Mary is more than her sexual status!
Dec 18, 202041:53
Beyond foreboding – the invitation into the practice of cultivating joy
Dec 11, 202037:36
What if peace is not the absence of conflict?
Dec 04, 202035:55
Hope is not a strategy
Nov 27, 202033:51
Meeting God on the edges
Nov 21, 202029:16
What are the stories you tell?
Nov 14, 202045:57
What sustains you in the long dark night of the soul?
Nov 07, 202048:01
Death, the Afterlife and Judgement
Oct 31, 202038:40
What is the point?

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 full service, because we are all invited to utilise this Table Liturgy. Instead, the audio includes the bible readings for the day - Deuteronomy 34.1-12 and Matthew 22.43-46 and a reflection on the reading from Matthew.

If you would like to become more involved in Richmond Uniting (eg. Midday prayers via zoom, discussion groups etc) please email richmond.uniting@bigpond.com to find out more, or visit us at richmond.unitingchurch.org.au

Oct 24, 202024:56
Doubts, Domesticating God and the Call Into Wild Faith
Oct 16, 202041:56
Hell talk, spiritual abuse and idols
Oct 09, 202049:40
Richmond Uniting online worship 4 October 2020
Oct 03, 202040:09
Richmond Uniting online worship 27 September 2020
Sep 25, 202029:22
Richmond Uniting online worship 20 September 2020
Sep 18, 202047:39
Richmond Uniting online worship 13 September 2020
Sep 12, 202046:45
Richmond Uniting online worship 6 September 2020
Sep 05, 202041:22
Richmond Uniting online worship 30 August 2020
Aug 29, 202043:21
Richmond Uniting online worship 23 August 2020
Aug 22, 202031:24
Richmond Uniting online worship 16 August 2020

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 bible readings for 16 August available on the Richmond Uniting Church website

God, power and the problem of suffering

This week, as we again engage with the ancient story of Joseph and his brothers in Genesis 45.1-15, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to reflect on God, power and the problem of suffering. Beyond the false paradigms of thinking God causes suffering or that God is impotent to respond to suffering, we dive deeply to reflect on who, and how, God is involved in suffering in the light of Christ Jesus.

Aug 15, 202046:53
Richmond Uniting online worship 9 August 2020

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 bible readings for 9 August available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, as we engage with the ancient story of Joseph and his brothers in Genesis 37.1-4, 12-28, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to reflect on the narratives of our families and culture, and the ways in which God’s dreamings for us might call us into a bigger perspective.

Aug 08, 202044:08
Richmond Uniting online worship 2 August 2020

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 bible readings for 2 August available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, as we reflect on the feeding of the multitudes in Matthew 14.13-21 in the midst of COVID-19, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to dive into thinking about 'end times' (the theological word for this is eschatology). We explore how might we might think of end times if we believe that in Jesus we discover divine reality.

Jul 31, 202037:55
Richmond Uniting online worship 26 July 2020

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 bible readings for 26 July available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

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. Download the PDF of the Table Liturgy we will use in worship. The audio worship does not include a full service, because we are all invited to utilise this Table Liturgy. Instead, the audio includes the bible readings for the day, and a reflection on the reading from Romans 8 focused on the question of prayer and desolation.

Jul 25, 202030:55
Richmond Uniting online worship 19 July 2020

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 bible readings for 19 July available on the Richmond Uniting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, our seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Rev Dr Sally Douglas invites us to engage in contemplative Christian worship. We explore Psalm 139.1-14, 23-24 through the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, sacred reading.  We also discuss how we do not to come to the bible with a neutral lens – instead we come to the bible already shaped by our experiences and what we have been taught about God – and this influences how we actually hear sacred text.

Jul 15, 202040:51
Richmond Uniting online worship 12 July 2020
Jul 10, 202052:09
Richmond Uniting online worship 5 July 2020

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 readings for 5 July available on the Richmond Unting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, our fifth Sunday after Pentecost, we are invited to explore Matthew 11 and dive deeply into John the Baptist’s crisis of faith and how Jesus responds. In this text we discover that here Jesus images himself as Woman Wisdom, the Female Divine figure from Jewish traditions, as he defends his actions of feasting with, and befriending, sinners.

Jul 03, 202044:06
Richmond Uniting online worship 28 June 2020

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 bible readings for 28 June available on the Richmond Unting Church website. You can listen to this with others or on your own..

Reflecting on Psalm 13 and Matthew 10.40-42

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. See the PDF of the Table Liturgy below. This week's audio worship does not include a full service, because we are all invited to utilise this Table Liturgy. Instead, the audio includes the bible readings for the day, and a reflection on the reading from Matthew 10.40-42.

Jun 27, 202020:16
Richmond Uniting online worship 21 June 2020

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 for 21 June available on the Richmond Unting Church website . You can listen to this with others or on your own.

This week, our second Sunday after Pentecost, we are invited to dive into the difficult story of Sarah and Hagar in Genesis 21. We explore issues of slavery, abuse, racism and sexism and examine how we are called to approach the bible faithfully as Christians. The stereotype that Christians are called to take the bible literally is disrupted and we engage with earliest church understandings of Jesus (and not the bible) as the Word of God.

Jun 20, 202041:42