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Author Archives: Avril Hannah-Jones
Sermon: God must be crazy!
The problem is that Jesus is willing to eat with tax-collectors and sinners, to relate to them as people, to see them as beloved human beings, before they demonstrate any repentance at all. Continue reading
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Tagged lost coin, lost sheep, love, Luke 15:1-10, parables, Wesley Uniting Church
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Reflection: Carrying the Cross
What we are seeing with the federal Religious Discrimination Bill is a last, desperate, attempt by Australian churches to hold on to the privilege and possessions that Australian Christians used to be able to take for granted: respect from the community, and a place at the tables of politicians. Continue reading
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Tagged Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lenny Duncan, Luke 14:25-33, William H. Lamar IV
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Sermon: Slavery and Biblical Literalism
If Christians were satisfied with simply ‘believing in the Bible’ we might still be approving slavery. Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, biblical interpretation, philemon, reading the Bible, slavery, Wesley Uniting Church
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Apostles Creed 3 – Jesus Christ
What the Apostles Creed is concerned with is not the mechanics of salvation, or who might or might not go to hell, but the identity of Jesus Christ. This is what is at the heart of Christianity, not a theory or a theology, but a person. Continue reading
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Tagged Apostles Creed, God the Son, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Salvation
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Apostles Creed 2 – God the Father
When Christians describe God as creator of heaven and earth we are saying a huge ‘yes’ to the whole creation. Continue reading
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Tagged Apostles Creed, creation, Creator, God the Father, new creation
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Apostles Creed 1
these millennium-old words remind us that each of us is a member of the one holy catholic and apostolic church throughout time and space, that as Christians we are part of something much bigger than ourselves Continue reading
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Tagged Apostles Creed, belief, Christianity, church history, creeds, history
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Sermon: Why I disagree with Israel Folau
It is only when we accept that God’s love is for us and for everyone that the news of the empty tomb becomes for us not simply an idle tale but the beginning of new life. Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 10:34-43, death, Easter Sunday, forgiveness, Isaiah 65:17-25, Israel Folau, judgement, love, Luke 24:1-12, resurrection
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Palm Sunday Sermon for the combined service
we can work for peace, justice and reconciliation with complete confidence, because God has already won the victory Continue reading
Sermon: On not being able to do the right thing
There are times in all our lives when we find that it isn’t the right time or place for us to do what we think is right, what we had planned, and we have to pause, take stock, change our minds. Continue reading
Sermon: When bad things happen
We live in a world in which, sadly, bad things do happen to good people. Continue reading
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