This week Rev. Mandy reflects on Jesus's teachings in Luke 18:18-30. A rich young man comes to Jesus and calls him Good Teacher. Join us as we unpack what Jesus means by the word "good" and how doing good can be lived out as we follow Jesus.

This week Rev. Mandy reflects on Luke 18:1-4. Jesus tells two parables about prayer - the Widow and the Unjust Judge and the Pharisee and Tax Collector. From this we can draw out some examples of what to avoid when we come before God in prayer. Most importantly, we can also draw out some examples of how we are to approach God - with confident, with persistence, with humility and with honesty.

This week Rev. Mandy reflects on 2 Timothy 2:8-15 and Paul's exhortation to Timothy to remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead and a descendant of David in all things. Jesus is the one who unites us as Christians but too often we focus on the things that divide us. We wrangle over words which destroy us and our witness to the world. We are called to remember Jesus and focus on the things that unite us, getting on with God's mission in the world, loving God and others just like...

This week in Couch Church Rev. Cathy unravels our readings from Lamentations, Psalms and the Gospel of Luke, and discovers they have two common threads - threads to give us hope even in the hardest times.

This week in Couch Church Rev. Cathy reflects on a parable of a man who saw the world through the wrong lens, and challenges us to ask: do we need a vision test to check that we are seeing the world through God's lens?

This week in Couch Church Rev. Cathy digs for new insights in a very familiar reading from Luke's Gospel. Let's dive into the story of Pharisees, a strange dinner and two parables about lost things.

This week in Couch Church, we dive into Paul's letter to Philemon with Rev. Cathy, discovering a message of forgiveness, welcome and freedom.

This week in Couch Church Rev. Cathy brings us a special reflection for our week of prayer for refugees. We're reminded that the stranger wears the face of Christ, something that can be challenging for us.

This week Rev. Mandy reflects on Luke 13:10-17. A story of Jesus healing a woman bent over by an unclean spirit in the synagogue on the sabbath day. This woman was bound up and in bondage but the love and compassion of Jesus set her free to enter into the intent of Sabbath - rest and freedom. We too can be bound up by rules and wonky thinking that prevents us from entering into God's rest. Jesus came to set us free from all that binds us up, that we might be renewed i...

This week in Couch Church Rev. Cathy reflects on that passage from Hebrews where we are encouraged to run the race with perseverance, surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses. We discover some surprising things about the people the writer of Hebrews lists as being in that great cloud! Who is in your cloud of witnesses?

It is the final Sunday of Easter, and Rev Cathy reflects on how Christ may not physically be with us but he is with us in a new way. Christ's light shines in the darkness, as Paul and Silas experienced in the pain and dark of prison. Christ's light shines on us, and if we allow it, through us.

This week Rev. Mandy reflects on John 13:31-35 and Jesus's well known commandment to love. But how do we love like Jesus - it's a big call! The only way we can love like Jesus is empowered by his spirit and filled with his love. Our love is what marks us as Christians and it is our witness to the world that we are Jesus's disciples. Our unity in love is one of Jesus's deepest desires and it forms such a big part of his final message to his disciples. So, let us be foll...

This week in Couch Church, Rev. Cathy explores the idea of God as a quilt maker, joining together and reshaping lives in intricate and amazing ways. The story in Acts of Paul and Lydia is a perfect example of God the quilt maker at work.

This week in Couch Church Rev. Cathy reflects on the story of an ordinary disciple, Tabitha, reminding us of how God loves to call ordinary people to transform lives, not necessarily in big ways, but one person at a time. And that means God calls us!

This week in Couch Church we celebrate Easter. Christ is risen, he is risen indeed! It's a story filled with mystery, so join Rev. Cathy as together we explore the mystery of God...and an Easter egg! (This reflection uses some material from the Godly Play story 'The Mystery of Easter'.)

This week Rev. Mandy reflects on John 12:1-8, the story of Mary of Bethany anointing Jesus's feet. Mary is often held up as a disciple we should emulate because of her deep devotion to Jesus. But in truth Mary was also a non-conformist and radical rule breaker. She broke stereotypes and challenged the social conventions of the day. Mary's example challenges us to worship and adore Jesus like she did: extravagently, not counting the cost and unconcerned by what others m...

This week in Couch Church Rev Cathy wonders who is sharing the stories of Jesus, especially with children. Spoiler alert: it is happening and there is hope!

This week Rev. Mandy reflects on Isaiah 55:1-9 as we hear God's invitation to draw near to him and listen. God is always calling us back to him, to return to him and receive his love and forgiveness in our hearts, our minds and our very souls. As we hear and respond to God's invitation to come and feast on him, we drink from his waters of life and eat of the bread of heaven and we are satisfied.

This week in Couch Church Rev Cathy shares her reflection for Ash Wednesday, as we begin the season of Lent.

This week in Couch Church Rev Cathy explores the power of choosing through the story of the choice of Matthias as an apostle, and Jesus's command to us to choose to love one another.