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Blogs I Follow
- The Mabel Project
- cruciality.wordpress.com/
- eappiblog.wordpress.com/
- Ikani's Blog- Musings, Rantings and Everything else!!!
- wildfiles
- Sean F. Winter
- Hesperus Press
- Ladyholder's Blog
- VerityPodcast.com
- election lab
- Rev Dr Chris Walker
- Seeking, Searching, Sitting in the Sacred
- Anglican Memes
- Storypath
- Andrew F Dutney
- Elenie Poulos
- A funny thing happened on the way ...
- The Still Circle
- Getting There... 2 steps forward, 1 back
- The world according to carox
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- @Dingo1957 Yup. Did it in my twenties. Still friends with some of the people I dated then. But, oh boy, so glad I o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 hour ago
- @McKenzie_Ben You're a redhead, though. That's surely the equivalent of Scottishness. At least, I've never thought of you as a Sassenach. 1 hour ago
- @Dingo1957 I'm both! Good thing I'm not looking for a date. 😉 1 hour ago
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Tag Archives: Year of Mark
Sermon: Aren’t there times when you just want to punch Hitler?
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
Sermon: Scarcity, Abundance, and ‘Enoughness’
We are not God, we are not called to be God, and so just as we are, we are good enough, perfect enough, powerful enough, strong enough, extraordinary enough. Continue reading
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Tagged abundance, being enough, bread, Gospel according to John, John 6, John 6: 35 41-51, scarcity, Year of Mark
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Communion, the Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, has many symbolic and spiritual meanings, but it is also always about feeding the world’s hungry. Continue reading
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Tagged bread, communion, eucharist, Gospel according to John, John 6:24-35, the Lord's Supper, Year of Mark
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Sermon: So, you want to have a king …
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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Tagged 1 Samuel 8:4-20, genocide, King David, King Saul, kingship, Prophet Samuel, reading the Bible, Year of Mark
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Sermon: Jesus (mis)reads the scriptures
The Pharisees are shocked at Jesus’ apparently cavalier attitude to the laws governing the Sabbath. Modern Christians are shocked at Jesus’ apparently cavalier attitude to biblical interpretation. Continue reading
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Tagged Bible, biblical interpretation, Mark 2:23-3:6, sabbath, Year of Mark
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Sermon: Clericalism is wrong
The proposed legal change is a sign that the world is changing, and it seems that Australian society will no longer allow churches to be treated differently from other institutions. And that’s good! Continue reading
Sermon: Love and Solidarity
In Jesus God is acting in solidarity with humanity, and so be watching what Jesus does we can see what we are called to do; what it means to be human beings living in relationship with God. Continue reading
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Tagged baptism, Genesis 9:8-17, Incarnation, John the Baptist, Lent, LGBTIQ, Mark 1:9-15, ministry, rainbows, Solidarity, Temptation, Year of Mark
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