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Tag Archives: Year of Luke
Sermon for Epiphany: Let your light shine
By following Jesus and imitating Christ we can live in such a way that God’s light shines through us to illuminate the world. Continue reading
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Tagged Epiphany, Isaiah 60:1-6, Light, Matthew 2:1-12, Sermon, Third Isaiah, 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 for Advent 3: Joy
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. The Lord is near. He is coming to welcome us to his kingdom, to make a place for us at his banqueting table. Continue reading
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Tagged Advent, Advent 3, Consumption, John the Baptist, Joy, Luke 3:7-18, Philippians 4:4-7, Sermon, Year of Luke
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Sermon: For the first Sunday of Advent and Zoey’s Baptism
Sermon for Williamstown The First Sunday of Advent, 29th of November, 2015 Jeremiah 33:14-16 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13 Luke 21:25-36 Happy New Year! Today is a day of beginnings. It’s the first Sunday of Advent, and today the church begins a … Continue reading
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Sermon: Joy, delight, and life WILL prevail
Sermon for Williamstown 17th of November, 2013 Isaiah 65:17-25 Over this past week I have been reading and watching the news from the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan has affected millions of people; hundreds of thousands are displaced and thousands dead. As … 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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Sermon: Why the Uniting Church is not a Bible-believing church.
Sermon for Williamstown Uniting Church September 08, 2013 Philemon 1-21 Way back in the sixteenth century, when the Western Church was splitting into Protestant and Catholic, some radicals accused Protestant Reformers like Luther of turning the Bible into a ‘paper … Continue reading
Sermon: Avril bangs on about asylum seekers yet again
Sermon for Williamstown The First of September, 2013 Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16 Luke 14:1, 7-14 “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.” – Hebrews 13:1 Last Wednesday this congregation … Continue reading
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Reflection: In which Avril has an epiphany and decides to tithe
Not so much a sermon as a meandering reflection on Christian attitudes to money, with possibly some over-sharing on my part. 2 Corinthians 8:1-15; Luke 12:13-21 Earlier this week I had an epiphany; a sudden realisation about the way in … Continue reading
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Tagged giving, money, Sermon, tithing, Williamstown Uniting Church, Year of Luke
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