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Living Through Death
Text: Phil 2:1-11. Preached at Werribee Church of Christ 14/11/04 Introduction An overseas visitor, unfamiliar with the workings of cricket, asked his host to explain the purpose of the game. The host described it like this: “You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that’s in the side that’s […]
Intellectual Love
[From the August 10, 1998 Christianity Today] Calvin dean of the chapel Cornelius Plantinga wrote the piece below for a Calvin convocation and then had it published in a recent Christianity Today. {Jesus} said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all […]
The Book of Job: Elihu
The following extract is taken from Robert Sutherland’s new book “Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job” (Trafford, Victoria, 2004) It is reproduced with his permission and he retains the copyright. Mr.Sutherland is a Christian Canadian criminal defense lawyer instrumental in changing the Canadian law on aggravated assault and solicitor-client privilege. He is […]
Hard Boiled Believers (Luke 16:13-15)
Hard Boiled Believers (Luke 16:13-15). By Kim Thoday We human beings are so unpredictable. We are so impulsive, mesmerized by the latest fads and fashions. Even worse we become victims too often of the political and social lies that justify and perpetuate the ‘truths’ that we live by. We become blinded and paralysed by ‘givens’ […]
Healing Encouragement
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY TO THE SAMARITAN WOMAN? The topic I’ve been given today (‘Moving on in Ministry’) is a most interesting one – and interesting for this church-in-transition as it moves into an exciting future. First, let’s affirm that all Christians are ministers. One or two of us are ‘pastoral ministers’ but we’re all […]
Theological Liberalism
(Note: I’m not an expert in Orthodox or Catholic theological spectrums, so will limit this discussion to the Protestant scene). Non-Catholic/Orthodox ‘Christians’ can roughly be put into about ten theological categories. They are (from left to right): ‘radical liberal’ (eg. Cupitt), ‘liberal’ (Tillich, Robinson, Kung, Spong), ‘neo-orthodox’ (Barth), ‘liberal evangelical’ (Fosdick), ‘radical evangelical’ (Wallis), progressive/ […]
Quotes on evil and goodness
“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.” – Blaise Pascal ‘The worst evils in the world are not done by evil people, but by good people who do not know they are not doing good’ – Reinhold Niebuhr “Half the harm that is done in this […]
The I of the Storm (1 Kings 19:9-18, Matthew 14: 22-32)
by Kim Thoday In Shakespeare’s play King Lear, there is a scene where the old King, after having bequeathed his kingdom to two of his daughters and then having been rejected by them and kicked out, shouts and rages against the stormy night that envelopes him. But the storm that is within him is more […]
The Perfect Job
Text: Gen 1:26 – 2:3. Preached 8/8/04 at Werribee Church of Christ. Introduction What is man? What makes a person human? What gives them dignity, worth, significance? .. If you turn on the telly, or open a magazine, there are no shortage of answers: branded fashions (what you wear is who you are) .. two-storey […]
How to get a life
Text: Jn 3:1-21. Preached at Werribee Church of Christ 15/2/04, by Rev Lance Lawton Introduction About a week ago, GJ sent me an e-mail, which included a line, quote that goes like this: “Come work for the Lord. The work is hard, the hours are long and the pay is low. But the retirement benefits […]
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