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Creationism Debate
In the beginning was the debate, but there were few converts February 9, 2014 Nick O’Malley US correspondent for Fairfax Media Ken Ham started off teaching his theories in Queensland public schools. Now he’s making waves in the US, writes Nick O’Malley in Kentucky. Walking with dinosaurs: Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, poses […]
Goodness: Barnabas – a case study…
This is a word not found in secular Greek. Graeco-Roman philosophers sometimes commended selfless generosity, but it was not a highly significant virtue for them. Christian goodness is embodied in Jesus Christ. The best of the saints, says Sangster, have a peculiar kind of goodness. ‘It unconsciously proclaims itself. One feels it as an […]
Jesus and Women
A study of the life-giving encounters in the Gospel narratives. by Melanie Morrison The biblical defense of hierarchy in male-female relationships is built on a select number of Pauline passages, while the gospels and the book of Acts are often ignored. The hermeneutical principle that undergirds this position is that the gospels are to be […]
Heaven
Zion, City of Our God Sermon by Fleming Rutledge                                                                      July 8, 2012 Psalm 48, Revelation 7, 19-21            There are a lot of apocryphal stories about the great theologian Karl Barth, but this one sounds just like him. A well-meaning lady asked him, “Dr. Barth, will we see our loved ones in […]
HELL – a sermon for Advent
Grace Church in New York Posted: Nov 17, 2013 By Fleming Rutledge At Grace Church in 1993 we had a series of Wednesday evening sermons on the Four Last Things of Advent: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hellâ€â€in their traditional order. The sermon is unchanged from Advent 1993 and the names of parishioners have not been […]
Q&R Foreword, Introduction, Contents, Chapter One: Good & Evil
QUESTIONS AND RESPONSES FOREWORD When someone makes an appointment to see me, a ‘generalist’ pastoral counselor, what do we talk about? Short answer: anything at all that’s important for them. Within the first five minutes I invite my parishioner/client to ‘give me a headline or two’. And, then, mostly, we jump into the deep end. […]
‘I lost both of my hands, an eye and had damaged ear drums and…and. In the midst of great pain, I felt that God was with me.’
A challenge to us all, from someone who’s paid a high price to be an advocate for peace and justice for all… ~~ WCC 10th Assembly 8th October 2013 Sermon Father Michael Lapsley, SSM Director of the Institute for Healing of Memories Cape Town, South Africa Peace be with you. I greet you all as […]
Hell: Quotes & Views…
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. Mark Twain ~~ The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Martin Luther King, Jr. or The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante […]
Jesus’ handling of the Old Testament
Would Jesus get hired to teach an Old Testament seminary course today? August 27, 2013 By Peter Enns Jesus certainly had an interesting way of handling his Bible in debates with the religious leaders of his day. One of these is found in John 10:34-36. Jesus is in the temple and he is getting grilled by “the […]
Jesus’ view of poverty
(A clipping from my files… from an old Expository Times. Author unknown). It is clear that what Jesus welcomed in the poor was not their poverty but their humility; and what he condemned in the rich was not their riches, but their pride. There was a poor man who cursed him as he died beside […]
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