Tag Archives: Advent 4

Sermon: Love Sunday

Posted on December 22, 2018 by Avril Hannah-Jones

In Jesus’ birth, as in Jesus’ death and resurrection, God is defeating death and hopelessness. Continue reading →

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Sermon: Mary the Magnificent

Posted on December 23, 2017 by Avril Hannah-Jones

There’s no doubt that Mary and Jesus are mother and son; both of them are radical re-makers of the world. Neither of them is particularly meek and mild. Continue reading →

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Sermon: The greater righteousness (2)

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Avril Hannah-Jones

Matthew’s story is a story of social conventions being overturned and of mercy outweighing merely-legal righteousness. Continue reading →

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Sermon for Advent 4: Love

Posted on December 20, 2015 by Avril Hannah-Jones

George Brandis famously said that people have the right to be bigots, and I’m going to go further and say that we are commanded to love bigots. Continue reading →

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Sermon: Scandalous mercy

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Avril Hannah-Jones

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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