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Sermon: The time is short
Instead, knowing that our lives may be short, and yet that all our days are held in the loving hands of God, I believe we can live with love, hope, freedom, and joy. We can, in fact, love the Lord our God with all our hearts, and with all our souls, and with all our minds, and with all our strength, and love our neighbours as ourselves. We should not wait to express our love, do good, leave behind happy memories, appreciate the life we have, because our appointed time is growing short. Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 7:29-31, Anna Buchan, Apostle Paul, death, eschaton, Mary Oliver, O Douglas, Parousia, Poetry, second coming, The Summer Day, Year of Mark
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Bit cut out of Sunday’s sermon
Sadly, there was no room for this paragraph in the sermon for Sunday the 21st. Throughout history various groups, religious and otherwise, have predicted the end of the world and hitherto all have been wrong. Going down the rabbit hole … Continue reading
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Tagged Armageddon, Australian history, Australian politicians, endtimes, eschaton, Trove
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Reflection: Hope at the End of the World
Reflection for North Balwyn Uniting ChurchAdvent One, 29th of November 2020 Isaiah 64:1-9Mark 13:24-37 Happy New Year! And to those of you here, in the nave, welcome back to worshipping in the church building after months of lockdown. In previous … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Advent 1, apocalypse, Apocalyptic, eschaton, Isaiah 64:1-9, Mark 13:24-37, second coming
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Reflection: Being extremists
we, like Jesus, can live lives that are daring and risky and open to change and new possibilities, because we, too, know that God is not the harsh master of the third slave’s fearful imagining Continue reading
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Tagged eschaton, Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Matthew 25:14-30, Parable of the Talents, parables, Parousia
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