Tag Archives: King David

Sermon: So, you want to have a king …

Posted on June 10, 2018 by Avril Hannah-Jones

In the same way that we can be certain that the author of Samuel was wrong to attribute a desire for genocide to God, we can be certain that there are things that we believe about God today that will later be revealed to be wrong – because we are human and, as the Apostle Paul wrote, we currently only ‘see in a mirror, dimly’. Continue reading →

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Sermon: Friendship, refugees, asylum seekers, and a birthday

Posted on June 20, 2015 by Avril Hannah-Jones

In the story of David and Jonathan, as in the story of Ruth and Naomi, we see that Jesus’ ancestors valued friendship as highly as Jesus himself did. We are called to follow in the footsteps of them all, and be friends with people across the barriers of age and birthplace and tradition. Continue reading →

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