Tag Archives: Prophet Samuel

Sermon: Introducing David, episode two of the soap opera

Posted on June 12, 2021 by Avril Hannah-Jones

Augustine wrote that, ‘anyone who thinks that he has understood the divine scriptures or any part of them, but cannot by his understanding build up the double love of God and neighbour, has not yet succeeded in understanding them’. The Scriptures are complicated and contradictory; let us ensure that our reading of them always builds up love. Amen. Continue reading →

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Sermon: Some mental exercise for lockdown

Posted on June 5, 2021 by Avril Hannah-Jones

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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Sermon: The importance of good biblical interpretation

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Avril Hannah-Jones

Bad Biblical interpretation has been used by Christians to justify the most appalling crimes against humanity: slavery; the Holocaust; apartheid. We must read the Bible carefully, in context, and through the lens of Jesus’ commands that we love God and neighbour because the alternative is terrifying.   Continue reading →

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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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