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Tag Archives: Apostle Paul
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
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Sermon: We can’t choose our (church) family
It’s a cliché that we can’t choose our family, and that applies to our church family as well. After all, if God has welcomed even us into the family, how can we deny that welcome to others? Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Paul, community, marriage, marriage equality, Martin Luther King, Media, Romans 14:1-12, same-sex marriage, Uniting Church
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Sermon: Paul talks about love – again!
Quarrelling and jealousy? I can barely get through a day without being guilty of one or the other. Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Paul, Church and State, Human rights, ICCPR, ICESCR, love, Romans 13:1-7, Romans 13:8-14
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Sermon: What’s love got to do with it? Everything.
People should know when Christians are being persecuted by the good that we’re doing in response. Continue reading
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: 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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