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Tag Archives: John 11:1-45
Sermon: Martha, Lazarus, and Mary
Reflection for North Balwyn Uniting Church Lent 5, 6th of April, 2025 John 12:1-8 ‘The chief priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and said, “What are we to do? This man is performing many signs. If … Continue reading
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Sermon: Death and Life
The funeral service used to contain the reminder that ‘in the midst of life we are in death,’ which apparently comes from a battle song by tenth-century monk Notker the Stammerer and, while that might strike our twenty-first-century ears as morbid, it is simply a fact. If we accept that, today’s reading can offer us comfort. Continue reading
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Tagged death, Easter, funerals, George Herbert, Hope, John 11:1-45, Kevin Hart, Mourning, resurrection, William Shakespeare, Year of Matthew
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Sermon: Life and death and Lazarus
It is a story about death and darkness and mourning; about life and light and rejoicing; and so it is an almost uncannily suitable story for us to hear during this pandemic, as the world faces the prospect of thousands upon thousands of deaths from COVID19. Continue reading
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Sermon: On death
We don’t need to comfort ourselves with the thought that death isn’t real, because we know that death isn’t the end. Continue reading