Sunday 23rd June 2024 – Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
REFLECTION:1 Samuel 17:32-51 “David and Goliath” Most people today have heard the story of David and Goliath. It has become symbolic of...
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St James Dandenong
Jun 63 min read
Sunday 9th June 2024 – Third Sunday after Pentecost
REFLECTION: 1 Samuel 8:4-20 “The Call for a King” What do you think about having a King? Would you be prepared to submit to him and...
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St James Dandenong
Jun 23 min read
Sunday 2nd June 2024 – Second Sunday after Pentecost
REFLECTION: 1 Samuel 3:1-20 The Call of a Prophet Today’s reading from 1 Samuel takes us back to the calling of Samuel who would be the...
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St James Dandenong
May 34 min read
Sunday 5th May 2024 – Sixth Sunday of Easter
REFLECTION: Acts 10. The Holy Spirit comes to the Gentiles. When we get to heaven, I think we might be surprised by some of the people we...
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St James Dandenong
Dec 12, 20233 min read
Sunday 10th December 2023 – Second Sunday of Advent
REFLECTION: Isaiah 40:1-11 “Proclaim the Good News!” What would be the best news you have ever received in your life? How did it make you...
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St James Dandenong
Sep 23, 20233 min read
Sunday 24th September 2023 – Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Philippians 1:1-30 “Proclaim the Gospel” Our Parish Mission Statement is “to know Christ, to Serve Christ, to Proclaim...
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St James Dandenong
Sep 16, 20233 min read
Sunday 17th September 2023 – Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: It is easy to be guilty of paying lip service to forgiveness. It is easy to say “I forgive you.” when, in actual fact, you...
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St James Dandenong
Sep 14, 20233 min read
Sunday 10th September 2023 – Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Caring for God's people - Matthew 18:10-20 Do you care for God’s people? Do you care for your brothers and sisters in Christ?...
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St James Dandenong
Aug 31, 20232 min read
Sunday 3rd September 2023 – Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: 24Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me....
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St James Dandenong
Aug 25, 20232 min read
Sunday 27th August 2023 – Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Who is Jesus for you? Maybe you believe that Jesus never existed – a fact that has never been questioned by any ancient...
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St James Dandenong
Aug 18, 20232 min read
Sunday 20th August 2023 – Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Today is Mission Sunday where we place emphasis upon task of making disciples of Jesus, proclaiming the gospel to the...
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St James Dandenong
Aug 13, 20232 min read
Sunday 13th August 2023 – Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: In our reading from Romans today we have one of the earliest Credal statements of the Christian, long before the great creeds...
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St James Dandenong
Aug 5, 20232 min read
Sunday 6th August 2023 – Tenth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: What qualifies us to be part of God’s family, citizens of God’s kingdom? In this passage of Romans 9, Paul takes up this...
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St James Dandenong
Jul 28, 20231 min read
Sunday 30th July 2023 – Ninth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: Have you ever felt in your life of faith that it is like God is a million miles away, that the circumstances of life have so...
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St James Dandenong
Jul 28, 20231 min read
Sunday 23rd July 2023 – Eighth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: The story of patron saint, James the son of Zebedee, is short but compelling. It is the story of a man plucked from everyday...
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St James Dandenong
Jul 15, 20232 min read
Sunday 16th July 2023 – Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: No condemnation! (Romans 8:1-4) I don’t know if you’ve noticed but, just like in chapter 5, our passage today begins with a...
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St James Dandenong
Jul 8, 20233 min read
Sunday 9th July 2023 – Sixth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION: “I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.” Says the Apostle Paul. And...
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St James Dandenong
Jun 30, 20232 min read
Sunday 2nd July 2023 – Fifth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION In Paul’s discussion concerning sin, which began not just in the passage we looked at last week but much even as early as...
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St James Dandenong
Jun 23, 20232 min read
Sunday 25th June 2023 – Fourth Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION Romans 6:1-11 continues the very reasoned and logical teaching Paul is giving around the nature of our salvation. His concern...
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St James Dandenong
Jun 17, 20232 min read
Sunday 18th June 2023 – Third Sunday After Pentecost
REFLECTION Imagine that you need a well-deserved holiday and a friend of yours invites you to Paradise Island resort in the Maldives in...
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