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Wake Up – The End Is Nigh
Romans 13:11-14 & Matthew 24:36-44. We are perhaps the first generation in which even those without a religious world view can envisage the end of the world. We may also be the generation that is least equipped to cope with its approach. We can envisage it like no others before us because our generation has […]
Embracing The Sacred
Let me read to you a description of a sacred site written by one of my favourite writers, Frederick Buechner: ‘One holy place I know is a workshop attached to a barn. There is a wood-burning stove in it made out of an oil drum. There is a workbench, dark and dented, with shallow, crammed […]
Overriding The Operating System
It is somewhat ironic that in our gospel reading Jesus opens with the words, ‘Do not be afraid, little flock,’ and then goes straight into the words that we are perhaps more afraid of than anything else Jesus ever said, ‘Sell your possessions, and give away money to the poor.’ Afraid of it? Well I […]
David And Bathsheba (A Jew’s Perspective)
From: (Les Brown) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian,aus.religion Subject: Re: Can any one explain??? Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 09:24:16 GMT wrote in aus.religion.christian: >Hello Les, > >So how do you explain the following? > >2 Sam 12:7 Nathan then said to David, "You are the >man! Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘It is I who […]
The Prosecutor’s Case
(EXPLANATORY NOTE: The following sermon was something of an experiment in style – preaching from the form of a text rather than the specific content of the text with the aim of achieving the same impact that the text would have had for its first audience. The Jeremiah passage, like a number of passages in […]
Search & Rescue
Now all the sinners and outcasts were coming near to listen to Jesus. And the religious types were grumbling and saying, "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them." So Jesus told them some stories, two or which you’ve just heard. Let me tell you another story. It was a cold night in the little […]
The Last Supper: What Did Jesus Say?
From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: Re: Denominations Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 01:53:18 GMT In <3631fc5e.183447720>, (Able) wrote: > The death of Judas would be a good one. I have done quite a bit of my >own research on it.I never like to look at these things with >Christians however, surprisingly a lot […]
Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
Sirach takes its title from the name of its author, Jesus son of Eleazar son of Sirach. Protestants do not regard Sirach as ‘inspired Scripture’ and consign it to the Apocrypha. The Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches would prefer to call it ‘deuterocanonical’. Sirach was in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew […]
John 8:1-11
From: (Nigel B. Mitchell) Newsgroups: aus.religion.christian Subject: John 8:1-11 Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 08:04:18 GMT John 8:1-11 is a passage that comes up for discussion on the newsgroup quite often. I am doing some work on the Jesus Seminar at the moment, and I thought it might be interesting to note what the Seminar […]
The Lessons Of History
THE LESSONS OF HISTORY A 77-year old Astronaut has been orbiting the earth this past week has been praising God at every turn. Sen. John Glenn is a Christian man and he has told people on the ground that his history-making trip has brought him closer to God. He mentioned the other day that he […]
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