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Sermon: Some mental exercise for lockdown
Reflection for North Balwyn Uniting Church6th of June 2021 1 Samuel 8:4-11 16-20 Here we are again: our second Sunday in our fourth lockdown. When I prepared this Reflection we had been in lockdown for less than a week, and … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Samuel 8:4-11 16-20, Bible, King Saul, kingship, Prophet Samuel, reading the Bible
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Sermon: So, you want to have a king …
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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Tagged 1 Samuel 8:4-20, genocide, King David, King Saul, kingship, Prophet Samuel, reading the Bible, Year of Mark
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