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Sermon: This is our story
In the single greatest act of civil disobedience ever seen this man, executed by the powers of Empire, was raised from the dead. The very least that the world’s oppressive regimes expect when they kill someone is that the person will stay killed. Continue reading
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Tagged civil disobedience, creation, Easter, Easter Sunday, eucatastrophe, Isaiah 65:17-25, Joy, Luke 24:1-12, resurrection, Year of Luke
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A bit cut out of the Christmas Day sermon
I wrote this, about Psalm 96, but in the end didn’t fit. So I cut it out. I hate having to do that. But I like it; so have an outtake from the Christmas Day Sermon, about God’s care for … Continue reading
Sermon: The cosmos was not created for us
We do not know why bad things happen to good people, or even why bad things happen to people like ourselves, middling good and middling bad. The Book of Job does not give us answers; maybe there are none. What it offers us, instead, is the reassurance that despite the immensity of a universe that seems indifferent to us, we have not been left alone in it. Continue reading
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Tagged animals, Book of Job, creation, evil, Job 38, nature, theodicy
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Sermon: Choose to believe – at the core of the cosmos is love
… why not make the choice to believe that the Creator of the cosmos loves us, that love is at the core of the universe, and that God has come as close to us as a next-of-kin, as this psalm tells us? If we hold on to this, then we can look up at heavens and the firmament and believe that we are just as important to God as they are. Continue reading
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Tagged covid19, creation, lockdown, Lockdown 6, Psalm 19, Psalms, Torah, Victor Gollancz
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Sermon: Nothing will make God give up on us
Whenever we feel at our most alone, we can have faith that God is with us, because Jesus entered the wilderness ahead of us. Continue reading
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Tagged creation, creation story, Creator, Flood, Genesis 9:8-17, Lent, Lent 1, love, Mark 1:9-15, noah, Temptation
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Reflection: The children of God
We are not just children of God; we are co-heirs with Christ. Everything that is his is ours. We could not be more important or have a higher status in the world than this. Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Paul, creation, Letter to the Romans, new creation, prosperity gospel, Romans 8:12-25, suffering
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Prayer for the times: Climate Emergency and Bushfires
We hold in our hearts before you those who have lost homes and loved ones; those who have had to evacuate; … Continue reading
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Tagged bushfires, climate change, climate emergency, creation, Creator, prayer
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Sermon: Counter-culturally caring for creation
This is why the Pope, and the Ecumenical Patriarch, and the World Council of Churches have told all Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christians that we have a responsibility to respond to the Climate Emergency. As people made in the image of God the Creator we are called to care for God’s creation. Continue reading
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Tagged bushfires, climate change, climate emergency, creation, creation story, Isaiah 65:17-25, new creation, Third Isaiah
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Apostles Creed 2 – God the Father
When Christians describe God as creator of heaven and earth we are saying a huge ‘yes’ to the whole creation. Continue reading
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Tagged Apostles Creed, creation, Creator, God the Father, new creation
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Sermon: Hope Sunday
The creation story speaks of light and order and life not because it is ignoring the reality of darkness and chaos and death but in response to it. Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Advent 1, creation, creation story, Hope, Hope Sunday, Jesse Tree, Parousia
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