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Saint And Pharisee
In general there are two key religious mind-sets – those of the ‘saint’ and the pharisee. We all have something of each in us, and the potential to be either. Both may be ‘orthodox’ theologically, even ‘evangelical’. Both pursue ‘goodness’ but by different means, for different ends. (Someone said pharisees were ‘good’ people in the […]
Your Chance To Change The World!
© 1996 Rod Benson. All rights reserved. We live very comfortable lives today. Comfortable and complex – we read and eat by the constant and unflickering beam of an electric light; we drive cars; we frequent drive-thru restaurants and banks; we watch up-to-the-minute world events unfold in the quiet and seclusion of our homes; we […]
Death Of Jesus
© 1997 Rod Benson. All rights reserved. Alexander the Great once found his philosopher friend Diogenes standing in a field, looking intently at a large pile of bones. Asked what he was doing, the old man turned to Alexander and replied, “I am searching for the bones of your father Philip, but I cannot seem […]
Mary’s Miracle
From an interesting website filled with sermons and humor:- http://www.revlowell.com Words of Hope and Inspiration Easter Sunday, March 30 1997, Sermon 7 Texts: Acts 10:34-43 or Isaiah 25:6-9 Psalm 118:14-24 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 or Acts 10:34-43 John 20:1-18 or Mark 16:1-8 Theme: The resurrected Jesus greets Mary Magdalene and makes a claim upon her life–as […]
Being Perfect
© 1996 Mark Parent. All rights reserved. Matthew 5:17-48 “The world is too much with us, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers,” so wrote the famous English poet William Wordsworth many years ago. At the risk of appearing presumptuous, I would like to disagree. I do not think that the main problem is […]
Me? A Missionary? You’ve Got To Be Joking!
© 1996 Rod Benson. All rights reserved. On Australian TV there’s a well known bank advertisement ending with the words, "For the most important person in the world . . . you." Effective advertising appeals to one of two basic human emotions – fear or greed – and this ad appeals to both to sell […]
Jesus Today
When you pick up Mark, and read it (it takes only 1-1/2 hours to read Mark aloud), you have before you the first life of Jesus ever written. Barclay suggests Mark is "the most important book in the world." Mark was, in Laurence Housman’s words, The saint who first found grace to pen / The […]
Jesus Today
(First in a series of studies on Mark) An art student visited a gallery in New York to study just one picture. He spent hours in front of it, acquiring what he thought was a fairly accurate idea of its meaning. As he turned to leave, a man touched him on the shoulder and asked […]
Jesus Today
(Fourth in a series on Mark’s Gospel; precis of a sermon preached by Rowland Croucher – March 9, 1980). Mark’s "good news" is all – and only – about an invasion of this planet by a King. Usually invasions stir up opposition – as this one certainly did. Jesus’ kingly authority is expressed both in […]
Resurrection
Charles Dickens opens his immortal Christmas Carol with these arresting words: "Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it … Old Marley was a dead as a door-nail." So, […]
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