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Blogs I Follow
- The Mabel Project
- cruciality.wordpress.com/
- eappiblog.wordpress.com/
- Ikani's Blog- Musings, Rantings and Everything else!!!
- wildfiles
- Sean F. Winter
- Hesperus Press
- Ladyholder's Blog
- VerityPodcast.com
- election lab
- Rev Dr Chris Walker
- Seeking, Searching, Sitting in the Sacred
- Anglican Memes
- Storypath
- Andrew F Dutney
- Elenie Poulos
- A funny thing happened on the way ...
- The Still Circle
- Getting There... 2 steps forward, 1 back
- The world according to carox
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- @aloysiustheodo1 Thank you! I try not to bother brother or sister-in-law, because I figure the last thing they need… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
- Constantly surprised by others being surprised at #Hillsong behaving like a money-making enterprise rather than a c… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 8 hours ago
- RT @GetUp: Australia is simultaneously gripped by bushfires, floods, dust storms and hail storms. Lives and livelihoods have been lost, m… 9 hours ago
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Sermon Against the Prosperity Gospel
Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus, neither success nor failure, wealth nor poverty, health nor sickness, happiness nor despair. Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Peter, Isaiah 49:1-7, John 1:29-42, John the Baptist, prosperity gospel, Servant Songs, suffering
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Sermon: God’s Humanity
even more important than the details of the incarnation is the simple point of the incarnation. In Jesus, God became one of us. In Jesus, God embraced humanity. Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, Baptism of Jesus, deification, Incarnation, John the Baptist, Matthew 3:13-17, Solidarity
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Sermon: The foolishness of the wise
The magi may be ‘wise men from the East’ but apparently they lack all common sense. Continue reading
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Tagged asylum seekers, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Epiphany, Flight into Egypt, magi, Massacre of the Innocents, Matthew 2:1-12, refugees
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Sermon: Putting Herod back into Christmas
If we include the Massacre of the Innocents and the Flight into Egypt in the Christmas Story, then the answer to the question, ‘where is God?’ is: ‘right there in the midst of danger and slaughter, vulnerable and defenceless’. Continue reading
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Tagged asylum seekers, Flight into Egypt, Hebrews 2:10-18, magi, Massacre of the Innocents, Matthew 2:13-23, refugees
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Prayer for Epiphany
Prayers of Intercession for Epiphany. If you would like to make use of them, please do. Continue reading
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Tagged Epiphany, prayer, Prayers of Intercession, Prayers of the People
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Prayer for the times: Climate Emergency and Bushfires
We hold in our hearts before you those who have lost homes and loved ones; those who have had to evacuate; … Continue reading
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Tagged bushfires, climate change, climate emergency, creation, Creator, prayer
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Sermon: Counter-culturally caring for creation
This is why the Pope, and the Ecumenical Patriarch, and the World Council of Churches have told all Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians that we have a responsibility to respond to the Climate Emergency. As people made in the image of God the Creator we are called to care for God’s creation. Continue reading
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Tagged bushfires, climate change, climate emergency, creation, creation story, Isaiah 65:17-25, new creation, Third Isaiah
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