Tag Archives: Jeremiah
Sermon: The true light has come to the world!
As comforting and inspiring as Jeremiah’s Book of Consolation was, the hope it offered was exclusive. It was Jacob, the remnant of Israel, firstborn Ephraim, who was to be redeemed. The nations were to hear the word of the Lord and declare that God has redeemed God’s people, but the nations themselves were not to be redeemed. In the prophecies of Jeremiah, a distinction was to be made between those born to the remnant of Israel and those born to the rest of the world. This distinction is destroyed by the gospel. Continue reading
Sermon: No one deserves this
We are told in excruciating detail of the suffering Daughter Zion is experiencing. As Daughter Zion complains, ‘The punishment of my people is greater than that of Sodom’. (Lamentations 4:6) Nothing that Judah had done could justify the starvation, exile, and death her people are experiencing. Another way of saying it might be, no possible war crime can ever justify genocide. Continue reading
Sermon: Destruction and Newness
This is a dangerous exercise of prophetic imagination. If the ‘least’ as well as the ‘greatest’ know the Lord on equal terms, what will the world look like? It cannot be a world in which those with particular types of education or holding particular offices will have power and privilege, while everyone else knows their place. Continue reading
Sermon: The welfare of the city
God has brought you here; God is already at work here; and in the shalom of this amazing, beautiful, challenging city of Melbourne, you will find your shalom. Continue reading
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