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Author Archives: Avril Hannah-Jones
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
Posted in Liturgy
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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Funeral Reflection for Howard James ‘Jim’ Learmonth
‘Eulogy’ is Greek for ‘good words’ and I hope that these are good words for a good man. Continue reading
Reflection: God our Rock
The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his handiwork. Continue reading
Posted in Reflection
Tagged Anangu People, Bible, Christianity, First People, Preamble, The Spectator, theology, Uluru Climb, Uniting Church
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Sermon: The welfare of the city
God has brought you here; God is already at work here; and in the shalom of this amazing, beautiful, challenging city of Melbourne, you will find your shalom. Continue reading
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Tagged Babylonian Exile, city, exile, Jeremiah, Jeremiah 29:1 and 4-7, Melbourne, Wesley Uniting Church
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Sermon: A psalm of hate
Another gift of the Psalter is the permission it gives us to share everything with God, even those emotions of which we are ashamed. The psalms show us that there is nothing that human beings can think, feel, say, or do, that we need to hide from God. Continue reading
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Tagged anger, biblical interpretation, C. S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Hate, Psalm 137, reading the Bible, revenge, The Psalter
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Sermon: A terrifyingly simple parable
It also takes the church out of the safe realm of biblical interpretation and theology into the scary realm of economics and politics. We could quite easily be told that questions of taxation and social security are none of our business. But we are in the Year of Luke and Luke, as I’ve already said, had no qualms about bringing socioeconomics into religion. Maybe we can too. Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Timothy 6:6-19, Luke 16:1-13, parables, Poverty, wealth, Wesley Uniting Church, Year of Luke
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Sermon: A complete puzzle of a parable
I have been chewing on this parable, as Jesus’ first hearers would have chewed it over on their way home that evening, wondering what the Lord meant by this story. Continue reading
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Tagged Dishonest Manager, Luke 16:1-13, money, parables, wealth, Wesley Uniting Church, Year of Luke
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