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Tag Archives: Jeremiah
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
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Tagged Amos, Babylonian Exile, Book of Lamentations, death, exile, Ezekiel, Gaza, Hosea, Isaiah, J. Cheryl Exum, Jeremiah, Jewish Voice for Peace, Judaism, JVP, lament, Lamentations 1:1-6, Liturgy, Palestine, prophetic pornography, sexual assault, siege, starvation, Tisha B’Av
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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
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Tagged Babylonian Exile, Jeremiah, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Lent, Lent 5
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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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Tagged Babylonian Exile, city, exile, Jeremiah, Jeremiah 29:1 and 4-7, Melbourne, Wesley Uniting Church
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