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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
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Tagged Book of Job, Handel's Messiah, injustice, Job 23, Psalm 139, suffering
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Sermon: Don’t accept injustice!
The other point I want to make is that Job’s wife is a hero. Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Job, injustice, Job 1:1 – 2:10, resistance, suffering, torture
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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
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Tagged Fruit of the Spirit, James 3:1-4:3 7-8a, Letter of James, Living a good life, Police Remembrance Day, wisdom
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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
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Tagged anger, George Herbert, James 3:1-12, Letter of James, Mark Knight, mistakes, racism, Serena Williams, Speaking, tongues
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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
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Tagged abundance, James 2:1-10 14-17, Letter of James, Poverty, rich and poor, Ross Gittins, scarcity
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(Not A) Sermon: Beginning the Letter of James
Sermon for Williamstown Uniting Church 2nd of September, Pentecost 15 James 1:17-27 For the next month we are going to be reading our way through the Letter of James, attributed to James, the brother of Jesus, and addressed to ‘the … Continue reading
Sermon: Aren’t there times when you just want to punch Hitler?
I can remember the shock and fear I felt watching an ABC documentary that screened in 2000, so well within my adult life, about the bashing of gay men in Townsville. One young man said, ‘I’m a Catholic. It’s meant to be a woman with a man, not a man with a man. That’s sick. That’s hitting material’. Continue reading
Sermon: Scarcity, Abundance, and ‘Enoughness’
We are not God, we are not called to be God, and so just as we are, we are good enough, perfect enough, powerful enough, strong enough, extraordinary enough. Continue reading
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Tagged abundance, being enough, bread, Gospel according to John, John 6, John 6: 35 41-51, scarcity, Year of Mark
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Communion, the Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, has many symbolic and spiritual meanings, but it is also always about feeding the world’s hungry. Continue reading
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Tagged bread, communion, eucharist, Gospel according to John, John 6:24-35, the Lord's Supper, Year of Mark
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