by Rev. David Usher Whose church is this, anyway? Whose would you say it is? One answer is, It’s mine. It belongs to me, the minister. If ever you are having a really slow afternoon, I mean, a really slow afternoon, you might be tempted to read a church history, and if you do you […]
by Rev. David Usher There was once an old farmer, a poor man who had worked his fields all his life, day in, day out, without ever making any money, never doing better than just scraping by. All he had to help him in his labours were his faithful old horse, and his son. One […]
by Rev. David Usher Today marks the official launch of UUCM’s Generosity Campaign. And what is that, do I hear you ask? Well, it is two things. It is the opportunity for you, and you, and you, for each and all of us, together to fund the dream of what we want this congregation to […]
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by Rev. David Usher Sermon from Sunday, December 7, 2014 I wrote this sermon on Thursday. I started the day by walking down the hill to church. There was a brief lull in the rain, and I can always use the exercise. And while I was walking, I was very aware of how totally safe […]
by Rev. David Usher Sermon from Sunday, November 16, 2014 Looking at Things Port Augusta is a dusty, dreary town at the top of Spencer’s Gulf, two hundred miles to the north of my home town of Adelaide, South Australia. It markets itself as the gateway to the north. Gateway to a whole load of […]
by Rev. David Usher Sermon from Sunday, November 9, 2014 Who was Jesus? What really do we know about him? Strip away everything that has been claimed about him, all of it by people who never met him and all of it articles of faith rather than statements of fact, and what do we know […]
by Rev. David Usher For a while when I was in the UK, I belonged to an organisation called Modem, a clever acronym standing for Management and Organisational Development in Ministry. The purpose of this outfit was to bring the skills of management into closer harmony with the mission of ministry, and vice versa, to […]
by Rev. David Usher Sermon from Sunday September 14, 2014. I was at a dinner party a little while ago, in England, and I found myself sitting next to a woman I had not met before. So we went through the usual getting-to-know-you pleasantries – what’s your name, where do you live, what do you […]
