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Tag Archives: Mothers’ Day
Sermon: Advice from Julian of Norwich
I have been struggling so much with the evil of the world over the past six months. It is always possible to find things in the world that seem to challenge any faith we might have in a good God, but there have been times over the past few months when I have had to turn off the television news because what is happening around the world and in Australia has so enraged me that I have felt physically sick. Continue reading
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Tagged anger, Easter 7, Farewell Discourse, God's Universalism, John 17:6-19, Judas, Julian of Norwich, Mothers' Day, universal salvation
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Reflection for Mothers Day
On this day when some of us are mourning the loving mothers we once had who have died, others are regretting the mothers who were unable to love us as they should, and yet others are grieving their own inability to become parents, it may comfort us to remember that in Jesus we have a Mother who is always with us and who will always love us. So on this Mothers’ Day let us celebrate and give thanks for the God who is our Mother as well as our Father. Amen. Continue reading
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Tagged God as Mother, images of God, Jesus as Mother, Julian of Norwich, love, motherhood, Mothers' Day
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Sermon: In which Avril, surprisingly, preaches about Mothers’ Day
When the Bible wants to tell us exactly how tenderly God loves us, God is compared to a mother. Continue reading
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Tagged forgiveness, Isaiah 49:13-18, Jesus was a feminist, John 7:53-8:11, Mothers' Day, Psalm 131, sexual impropriety
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