Monthly Archives: September 2015
Sermon for Police Remembrance Sunday 2015: Watch your tongues!
If we, members of police forces and society in general, talk about Cumulative Stress Disorder, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and other mental health issues as though they’re shameful or to be hidden, people experiencing mental illnesses will try to ignore them, hide them, or deal with them alone. Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Ribbon Day, James 3:1-4:3, Letter of James, mental health, police, Police Remembrance Day, PTSD, suicide, Year of Mark
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Sermon: The Creator of the Cosmos is our Next of Kin
We believe that the God who created the universe and to whom the heavens bear witness is also the God who loves human beings, us, as God’s children, members of God’s family. Continue reading
Sermon: Do we really ‘believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ’? Welcoming refugees and asylum seekers.
James demands that Christians follow the ethical direction of Jesus’ life, the way Jesus cared for people. He challenges his first readers, and us, to be involved in justice in the same way that Jesus was. Continue reading
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Tagged asylum seekers, James 2:1-10, Mark 7:24-37, Politics, refugees, Year of Mark
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