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Sermon: Birds of the air and lilies of the field
I believe that God sends us angels, messengers of love, if our eyes are open to them. I have heard from members of this congregation of the times when they have needed to be reminded of the power of love that is at the core of the universe, reminded that the world is full of well-meaning people who are willing to help others, and the love and care they have needed have materialised. One of my greatest joys as a minister is when someone tells me that I have been that angel for them, when God has used me in all my frailty and faultiness to reveal love. I am sure that if you think about it, there have been times when you received the word or the sign or the care that you desperately needed at that moment. I am also sure that there have been times when God has used you to give that word or that sign or that care to someone else. We are not alone in this universe. Our lives are entwined with one another, and it is God who weaves us together. Continue reading
Posted in Sermons
Tagged hunger, Julian of Norwich, Leviticus 26:3-13, love, Matthew 6:16-34, providence, Sermon on the Mount, Year of Matthew
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Sermon: Give Gazans their necessary bread!
It has been hard to think about daily necessary bread this week, while seeing the images of skeletal children starving in Gaza. I will not show them to you, because they are simply too graphic for church. Charities have been warning the world of this impending human-created disaster for months; now Palestinians are dying daily of hunger. More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed trying to access the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose name is bitterly ironic. Continue reading
Posted in Political Activism, Sermons
Tagged Apostle Paul, Gaza, genocide, hunger, Israel, Lord's Prayer, Luke 11:1-13, Palestine, starvation, Teresa of Avila, war crimes, Year of Luke
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