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Monthly Archives: May 2015
Sermon: The Trinity is a celebration; not a maths problem
I hope this is giving you a sense of why the doctrine of the Trinity excites me. (Yes, I am the sort of geek who gets excited by theological doctrines.) Continue reading
The Act for Peace Ration Challenge
3,500 g of rice; 280 g of split peas; 250 g of fortified flour; 155 g of fish; 40 g of salt and 125 ml of vegetable oil Continue reading
Posted in Political Activism, Reflection
Tagged Act for Peace, Burma, fund-raising, Ration Challenge
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Sermon: We are never left alone
Without the Spirit, as Ezekiel saw, existence is just flesh and blood: ‘there were sinews on them, and flesh had come upon them, and skin had covered them; but there was no breath in them’. But with God’s spirit, there is life. And there is nowhere, no time, and no situation that can keep God’s Spirit away from God’s people. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Acts 2:1-21, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Holy Spirit, John 15:26-27, Pentecost, Year of Mark
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Sermon: Friendship
And yet if any form of relationship can be described as particularly Christian, as the specific way that Christians live out our lives, it’s not marriage. It’s friendship. Continue reading
Sermon: The sons and daughters of the eunuch
But welcoming eunuchs doesn’t cause of much controversy in the church today. Welcoming other people of non-standard genders and sexualities – gay, lesbian and bisexual people; transgender and intersex people – does. Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 8:26-40, Easter 5, Ethiopian eunuch, Eunuchs, GLBTI, Holiness Code, homosexuality, intersexuality, Tony Briffa, Year of Mark
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