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Christian’s Armour analogy
Rowland Croucher posted Leigh Wilson’s note which said: After many years of waiting for someone else to do it, I’ve taken the bull by the horns and written a modern parallel of the Christian’s Armour in Ephesians 6, based on the gear that long distance hikers carry. In my parahrase of the passage on my […]
A Christmas Party, Luke14: 15-24
(by Kim Thoday) I have a mate called Snapper. His other name is Ronnie. He got nicknamed Snapper because in his younger years he could drink like a fish. Snapper loves Jesus because for him Jesus is his very best mate. Snapper grew up in one of the toughest neighbourhoods of Melbourne. Physically, he is […]
Sermon for Persecuted Church
by Paul EstabrooksScripture Reading: 2 Timothy 1:15-18Second Timothy is the Apostle Paul’s final written communication before his death. He waschained to a soldier in a prison house in Rome. Although he is writing to encourage hisspiritual son, Timothy, Paul reveals a great need of encouragement, himself. The long, lonelyhours and his facing almost certain death […]
To See or not to See (1 Samuel 16, Mark 10:46-52)
by Kim Thoday. To See or not to See (1 Samuel 16, Mark 10:46-52), by Kim Thoday. According to legend in the ancient Greek city of Thebes there reigned a king called Oedipus. Oedipus sought to investigate the cause of all the strange and unnatural occurrences in the city. He rashly promised the citizens of […]
Nailing It
Colossians 2:13-15 As a child I loved fairy tales: classics like The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and others. They helped shape my moral worldview, to distinguish good from evil, to know justice, to exercise my imagination. The gospel as fairy tale In Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy and Fairy Tale, Frederick […]
The Book Of Revelation: Wealth And Poverty And The Question Of Allegiances
(by Kim Thoday) The Book of Revelation (also known as the Apocalypse of John) was originally intended to challenge and nurture the Christian communities in Asia Minor toward the end of the first-century. In other words, the Apocalypse had both a prophetic and pastoral function. The Apocalypse employs a wide variety of cryptic images – […]
You Have Never Been Hurt
Richard Rohr First air date April 2, 1999 – Program #4319 —————————————————————————- —- Fr. RICHARD ROHR is a priest, a retreat master and a writer. A native of Kansas, Richard entered the Franciscan order in 1961 and became a priest in 1970. He was founder of the New Jerusalem Community in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the […]
Psalm 27-29
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-181 Sundays 28 Sep to 12 Oct 2003 [Due to the recent disruption of the CLM service, as explained in CLB-3-006, this posting has three Psalms on Sundays messages to bring them up to date.] Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 27 – WAITING FOR GOD (28 September 2003) Ours is an ‘instant’ […]
Science And Faith In The 21st Century
Denis Alexander, Rebuilding the Matrix: Science and Faith in the 21st Century (Lion Publishing, 2001) Reviewed by Rev Viv Grice For many Christians as well as many non-Christian scientists, the relationship between modern science and faith is a fraught one. Some Christians, particularly of the fundamentalist mindset, fear that the methodologies and findings of science […]
How To Be Happy
by Rowland Croucher Text: Psalm 32 My guess is that everybody wants to be happy. We dream of happiness, we plan for it, and perhaps pay almost any price to achieve it. Ask the average person what he or she wants out of life and they’ll say without hesitation: ‘I just want to be happy.’ […]
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