Tag Archives: Letter to the Ephesians

Be Angry! | Reflection on Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Posted on August 10, 2024 by Avril Hannah-Jones

The Ephesians are told to ‘be imitators of God’ and both the Jewish and Christian biblical writers agree that God is sometimes wrathful. The Jewish prophets were certain that God is most angry at injustice … We believe in a God who is Love, and according to the prophets that very love means that God is outraged when human beings harm each other. Continue reading →

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Sermon: I go down the rabbit hole of ‘predestination’

Posted on July 13, 2024 by Avril Hannah-Jones

We have been blessed in Christ, chosen in Christ, adopted through Christ, obtained an inheritance in Christ, and set our hope on Christ. However God will gather others to Godself, we have become God’s own people through our relationship with Christ. Continue reading →

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Sermon: Aren’t there times when you just want to punch Hitler?

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Avril Hannah-Jones

I can remember the shock and fear I felt watching an ABC documentary that screened in 2000, so well within my adult life, about the bashing of gay men in Townsville.  One young man said, ‘I’m a Catholic. It’s meant to be a woman with a man, not a man with a man. That’s sick. That’s hitting material’. Continue reading →

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