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Tag Archives: JobSeeker
Sermon: When Jesus is being all too clear
It is absolutely important for us, as Christians, to donate to the work of Uniting, and FoodBank Victoria, and other emergency relief agencies. But in the twenty-first century it is no longer enough to expect the rich man to share what drops from his table with the beggar at his gate. We also need to use our intellect and our connections and our articulate voices to ask why there is any poverty at all in wealthy Australia, even if that takes us into the realm of ‘politics’. Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Timothy 6:6-19, FoodBank, giving, JobSeeker, Luke 16:19-31, Médecins Sans Frontières, parables, Poverty, Sermon, Uniting, wealth, Year of Luke
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Sermon: God comes to us in bread
We do not have a disembodied faith in which only the spiritual is important. We have an embodied, physical, material faith in which food is vitally important. Christianity is most definitely not about ‘pie in the sky when you die’. It is about bread here and now, because our God comes to us in bread. Continue reading
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Tagged communion, eucharist, Food, Gospel according to John, JobSeeker, Newstart, the Lord's Supper, Year of Mark
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