Recent Comments
avrilhj on Sermon: Don’t accept… Gary on Sermon: Don’t accept… Delia Quigley on Sermon for Police Remembrance… maureenshirley on Sermon: The church is called t… avrilhj on Reflection: Notes from 20 year…
Advertisements
Author Archives: avrilhj
Sermon: Don’t accept injustice (Part 2)
Job complains and accuses God of wrongdoing, but he does that because he believes in a God of justice. Continue reading
Advertisements
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Book of Job, Handel's Messiah, injustice, Job 23, Psalm 139, suffering
Leave a comment
Sermon: Don’t accept injustice!
The other point I want to make is that Job’s wife is a hero. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Book of Job, injustice, Job 1:1 – 2:10, resistance, suffering, torture
2 Comments
Sermon: The church is called to pray
In recent years as the horrors of the Royal Commission have educated us about the dangers of the wrong sort of touch we have become a little scared of the right sort of touch. Continue reading
Sermon for Police Remembrance Sunday
If we curse people with the same mouth with which we bless God, we are as weirdly unnatural as a fig tree that grows olives. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged Fruit of the Spirit, James 3:1-4:3 7-8a, Letter of James, Living a good life, Police Remembrance Day, wisdom
1 Comment
Sermon: We ALL make mistakes
Knight should have acted with the gentleness born of wisdom and apologised, rather than doubling-down and attacking those who criticised it. To repeat what James writes, ‘all of us make many mistakes’. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged anger, George Herbert, James 3:1-12, Letter of James, Mark Knight, mistakes, racism, Serena Williams, Speaking, tongues
Leave a comment
Letter to the Sunday Age
My letter was edited for space, so here is the full thing. ‘Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father,’ says the letter attributed to James, the brother of Jesus, ‘is this: to care for orphans and widows … Continue reading
Sermon: Faith that is alive
The gospels are rife with examples of Jesus’ care for the poor and for those whom society considered outsiders. Because we have this example of Christ’s to follow, Christians are different from other people in our attitude to money. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged abundance, James 2:1-10 14-17, Letter of James, Poverty, rich and poor, Ross Gittins, scarcity
Leave a comment
