Christoph Reiners

Worship and Doubt

Genesis 1:1-2:4a | Psalm 8 | 2 Corinthians 13:11-13 | Matthew 28:16-20 The readings for the Sunday of the Holy...
May 26, 2026

Our Place in the Wilderness

First Sunday of Lent, Year A Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7 | Psalm 32 | Romans 5:12-19 | Matthew 4:1-11Like many of...
February 17, 2026

Why Not Me?

Proper 18 (23), Year CJeremiah 18:1-11 Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Philemon 1:1-21Luke 14:25-33Harry, a Baptist colleague and neighbour from the time in my...
September 2, 2025

Trading Tinsel for an Unfailing Treasure

Proper 14, Year CIsaiah 1:1, 10-20Psalm 50:1-8, 22-23Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16Luke 12:32-40Art: “Favourite flowers of garden and greenhouse” by Edward StepJesus’...
August 5, 2025

Remembering God’s Future

Acts 16:9-15Psalm 67Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5John 14:23-29Artwork: “Model of a City” By Carlo Crivelli, 1482I have long withdrawn from the daily...
May 21, 2025

Turning The Dial

Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10Psalm 191 Corinthians 12:12-31Luke 4:14-21Having been raised without television has advantages. When in 2015 I chose to...
January 22, 2025

Advent is Practice against Despair

Advent 1 CJeremiah 33:14-16Psalm 25:1-101 Thessalonians 3:9-13Luke 21:25-36All three readings for this Sunday share an eschatological perspective. Jeremiah utters the...
November 26, 2024

Co-insiders in the House of God

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23Psalm 125James 2:1-10, 14-17Mark 7:24-37Proper 18BMary has been attending the church I serve for about 30 years....
September 3, 2024

God’s Faithfulness

Proper 5 (10) Second Sunday after Pentecost1 Samuel 8:4-11, (12-15), 16-20, (11:14-15)Psalm 1382 Corinthians 4:13-5:1Mark 3:20-35There is one line I...
June 5, 2024

God’s Friends

Sixth Sunday of EasterActs 10:44-48Psalm 981 John 5:1-6John 15:9-17Thinking about the three congregations I have served, I thought the tag-line...
May 1, 2024