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Category Archives: Sermons
Sermon: White supremacy is blasphemy
It was the faith that I hold that they were perverting, and the cultural background that I have that they were claiming to protect, and I take that personally. Continue reading
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Tagged anti-Semitism, Antisemitism, Apostle Paul, Charlottesville, Matthew 15:21-28, Politics, racism, Romans 11:1-2a 29-32, Terrorism
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Sermon: Against Domestic Violence
Looking at the example of Jesus, we can be equally clear that gender equality and the complete condemnation of domestic violence are gospel imperatives. Continue reading
Sermon: We can live out love
We can do more than we ever thought possible and live lives of astonishing love. Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Paul, death, flesh, funerals, Holy Spirit, love, Righteousness, Romans 8:1-11
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Sermon: Jesus is not a life coach
Paul reminds us that Christianity is not about positive thinking. Jesus is not a life coach. Continue reading
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Tagged anti-Semitism, Apostle Paul, Books, ethics, fantasy, Guy Gavriel Kay, Romans 7:15-25a, sin
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Sermon: For Asta and Matthew’s Wedding
the Church believes and has always believed that in the love between a married couple, as in any sort of love, we see God Continue reading
Sermon: Holy and Perfect
because we are no longer slaves to sin we’re able to be perfect or holy, free from what John Wesley referred to as ‘evil thoughts and evil tempers’ Continue reading
Sermon: Don’t mention the Trinity!
As I say on this Sunday every year: today is Trinity Sunday; be afraid, be very afraid. Continue reading
Sermon: Merited and unmerited suffering
History shows us too many times when Christians have utterly failed to do good. Let’s never add to that history by doing evil. Continue reading
Sermon: In which Avril confesses to proclaiming a ‘nice’ God
I say, only half-jokingly, that my particular gift isn’t to encourage people to see Christianity as true; it’s to encourage people to see Christians as ‘nice’. Continue reading
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Tagged Acts 17:22-31, Apostle Paul, Apostle Peter, evangelism, Gospel according to John
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Sermon: In which Avril, surprisingly, preaches about Mothers’ Day
When the Bible wants to tell us exactly how tenderly God loves us, God is compared to a mother. Continue reading
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Tagged forgiveness, Isaiah 49:13-18, Jesus was a feminist, John 7:53-8:11, Mothers' Day, Psalm 131, sexual impropriety
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