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Sermon: Following in the footsteps of the Apostle Peter and Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sermon for Camberwell Uniting Church 26th of January, 2020 Matthew 4:12-24 Isaiah 9:1-4 These weeks that we have between Christmas and Lent are dedicated to the nature of vocation or call. We’ve seen Jesus’ call to begin his public ministry … Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Peter, baptism, call, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Isaiah 9:1-4, Matthew 4:12-24, vocation, Year of Matthew
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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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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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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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