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Category Archives: Sermons
Sermon: It’s not enough just to be ‘born’ again
Sermon for Williamstown, 16th of March 2014 John 3:1-17 John’s gospel starts with a bang. It begins with the wonderful Prologue, the hymn to the Word: ‘In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the … Continue reading
Sermon: The Beatitudes
Sermon for Williamstown Uniting Church The Fourth Sunday of Epiphany, 2nd of February 2014 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Matthew 5:1-12 Today, as we continue our Epiphany journey through Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, we hear one of my favourite descriptions … Continue reading
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Sermon: What a good thing for us that the church at Corinth was so imperfect
Sermon for Williamstown 26th of January, 2014 1 Corinthians 1:10-18 In last week’s reading from Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, Paul started his epistle on an extremely positive note: “I give thanks to my God always for you … Continue reading
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Sermon: Called by God (expect the unexpected)
Sermon for Williamstown 19th of January 2014 John 1:29-42 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 In a couple of previous sermons I’ve mentioned the Revised Common Lectionary, which gives churches four Bible readings for each Sunday and is used by Anglican and Lutheran … Continue reading
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Sermon: Beloved sinners
Sermon for Williamstown Baptism of Jesus, 12th of January, 2014 Matthew 3:13-17 Acts 10:34-43 Christianity says two things about human beings. Actually, it says lots of things about human beings, but there are two particular elements of Christian anthropology that … Continue reading
Sermon: Scandalous mercy
Sermon for Williamstown Uniting Church 4th Sunday of Advent, 22nd of December, 2013 Matthew 1:18-25 Way back in the eighties and early nineties there was an Australian television program called A Country Practice. I wasn’t allowed to watch the first … Continue reading
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Sermon: Women behaving badly and making history
Sermon for the third Sunday of Advent 15th of December 2013 Matthew 1:1-17 Were you surprised by today’s Gospel reading? I have to confess that this morning I cheated. The lectionary reading for this Sunday comes from the 11th chapter … Continue reading
Sermon: Joy, delight, and life WILL prevail
Sermon for Williamstown 17th of November, 2013 Isaiah 65:17-25 Over this past week I have been reading and watching the news from the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan has affected millions of people; hundreds of thousands are displaced and thousands dead. As … Continue reading
Sermon: We are the sheep that God loves passionately, crazily, extravagantly; we are the uniquely valuable coin, whose recovery causes such celebration.
Sermon for Williamstown 15th of September, 2010 Luke 15:1-10 In today’s two parables we find ourselves in the heart of Luke’s Gospel. Christianity would not be the faith we know if it wasn’t for these two stories and the … Continue reading
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Sermon: Why the Uniting Church is not a Bible-believing church.
Sermon for Williamstown Uniting Church September 08, 2013 Philemon 1-21 Way back in the sixteenth century, when the Western Church was splitting into Protestant and Catholic, some radicals accused Protestant Reformers like Luther of turning the Bible into a ‘paper … Continue reading
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