Notices 5th October 2025

A special welcome to everyone joining us in worship at Kingston today.

John 1:1-18

Light. When it’s dark, it’s the one thing we crave. But in Australia, due to some phenomena about the way that Ozone molecules are frozen by the Antarctic, possibly caused by someone else’s pollution, you can quickly have too much of a good thing. Many of us have now religiously taken the advice of the Cancer Council and, rain or shine, we slip, slop, slap, SP50 grade, and carry on enjoying the warmth of the great white disk in the sky. What a great species we are, adapting once again to an environmental disaster we kind of caused. Except that more and more Australians are suffering from a vitamin D deficiency which, guess what?...is caused by lack of exposure to the Sun.

Yep!, We can’t bear direct exposure during the middle of the day and yet we need to bare those solar collection appendages at some point, lotion free, for the sake of our health! In relation to Jesus then, why on earth do we choose darkness instead of the light? He never gave anyone cancer, yet I have heard many stories where he has taken it away. Darkness doesn’t understand the light and I know that I keep too much of my soul in the shade! All I know is that I need to bask in the light of Christ. I need to overcome my Vitamin J deficiency!

Rev. Michael Duke

The Season of Creation is an ecumenical event which, in Australia, coincides with the beginning of Spring, and runs from September 1 until October 5. It is a time of celebrating the beauty of the earth and the splendour of creation, and to enjoy reflecting on God’s great gifts to us in land, sea and sky and all that they contain. Click here for all the details!