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Sermon: Jesus gets scary!
Today’s readings do not provide the gentle encouragement on which I prefer to preach. Today’s liturgy contains the word ‘love’ nine times, but it does not appear in either of the readings. And yet, as your minister, of course I am going to end with encouragement anyway. As one of my favourite saints, Julian of Norwich, wrote: God ‘did not say, “You shall not be perturbed, you shall not be troubled, you shall not be distressed,” but he said, “You shall not be overcome.”’ Continue reading
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Tagged Christian nationalism, division, faith, faithfulness, Hebrews 11:29-12:2, Luke 12:49-56, violence, Year of Luke
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Sermon: Bringing down walls
We do not need to create ourselves; we have been created by God and redeemed by Christ. That is the most important thing we can know about ourselves; that we are citizens with the saints, members of the household of God, built together spiritually into a dwelling-place for God. Continue reading
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Tagged apartheid, division, Ephesians 2:11-22, Rowan Williams, walls, World Council of Churches
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