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Tag Archives: love
Sermon: What’s love got to do with it? Everything.
People should know when Christians are being persecuted by the good that we’re doing in response. Continue reading
Reflection: Why I support Marriage Equality
today silence feels like cowardice. And if me being open about who I am can help even one young person feel better about who they are, then it’s worth it Continue reading
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Tagged faith, Hope, identity, love, marriage, marriage equality, Politics, same-sex marriage, sexuality
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Sermon: We can live out love
We can do more than we ever thought possible and live lives of astonishing love. Continue reading
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Tagged Apostle Paul, death, flesh, funerals, Holy Spirit, love, Righteousness, Romans 8:1-11
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Sermon: For Asta and Matthew’s Wedding
the Church believes and has always believed that in the love between a married couple, as in any sort of love, we see God Continue reading
Sermon: Christians behaving badly
I didn’t say in so many words, ‘You fool’, but I definitely implied it. Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Plass, Gender, God likes us, love, Matthew 5:21-37, Sermon on the Mount, Year of Matthew
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Sermon: Living as though the world were what it should be, to show it what it can be
But as Martin Luther King is quoted as saying: ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice’ Continue reading
Sermon: Jesus was serious about all that ‘love’ stuff
As I said last week, we are not God. We cannot love others as God loves us. We will always fail and fall short. But that doesn’t give us a reason not to try. Continue reading
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Tagged 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, love, Luke 4:21-30, Sermon, Year of Luke
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Sermon for Advent 4: Love
George Brandis famously said that people have the right to be bigots, and I’m going to go further and say that we are commanded to love bigots. Continue reading
Sermon: We are the sheep that God loves passionately, crazily, extravagantly; we are the uniquely valuable coin, whose recovery causes such celebration.
Sermon for Williamstown 15th of September, 2010 Luke 15:1-10 In today’s two parables we find ourselves in the heart of Luke’s Gospel. Christianity would not be the faith we know if it wasn’t for these two stories and the … Continue reading
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Tagged celebration, judgement, lost coin, lost sheep, love, same-sex marriage, Sermon, this is the heart of my faith, welcome, Year of Luke
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