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Appeal For Justice
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-087 Sunday 04 May 2003 Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 7 – AN APPEAL FOR JUSTICE Would you have the courage to be a prophet? ‘Lord, may I speak your word boldly today.’ Don’t reach for the Bible dictionary – there isn’t an account of Cush (referred to in the psalm’s preface) […]
God, This Is Urgent
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-082 Sunday 27 Apr 2003 Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 6 – GOD, THIS IS URGENT What really is urgent and important for you today? Forgive me for what may be a particularly English reaction, but don’t you think the Psalms sound pushy sometimes? This wonderful, eloquent, moving lament sometimes breaks through […]
From Tragedy To Triumph
We were all shocked to hear about that horrific car accident at Dee Why this week, when a truck slammed into a line of cars, and four of them exploded [Sydney, April 2000]. We applaud and look up to the brave citizens who worked so hard to rescue injured drivers and passengers, especially the young […]
Just As He Said
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-078 (Devotional) JUST AS HE SAID by Peter Kennedy “‘Don’t be alarmed,’ he said. ‘You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen! He is not here. See the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples and Peter, ‘He is going ahead of you into […]
Wonder Of It All
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-077 Easter Day, 2003 Reading – Matthew 28:1-10 THE WONDER OF IT ALL ‘He arose! He arose! Hallelujah! Christ arose!'(Robert Lowry) Praise him for his resurrection presence this Easter Day. An educated high-born Hindu was rehabilitated at our mission leprosy hospital. He boasted that even if he was brought back from death […]
Lord Of The Churches
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-068 (Expository Sermon) LORD OF THE CHURCHES Revelation 1:9-20 by Rod Benson Like you, I have dreams before I wake from sleep. Sometimes they are vivid, but mostly they are irrational, disturbing and difficult to remember unless I write down what I remember as soon as I wake – which isn’t always […]
Simon Recalls The Cross
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-072 (Devotional) SIMON RECALLS THE CROSS by Roy W. Johnsen My name is Simon. I come from Cyrene in Africa, and I shall never forget that day in Jerusalem. Years have past since then but I can still picture those events in my mind as though it were yesterday. Allow me to […]
Jesus And The Poor
The following is part of a sermon preached by Abp Rowan Williams at a recent induction in Bradford Our Reading from the Gospel of Luke gives The Nazareth Manifesto. You will remember that He came to His hometown of Nazareth and to the Church to great acclaim. “All spoke well of him and were amazed […]
Easter Message 2003
Luke 24:13-35 (topical sermon) Two of our greatest human needs are certainty and security. I see these needs expressed by our three young sons, each in their age-specific ways – finding themselves among strangers, or misplacing a security blanket, or not being fed as soon as the demand arises. But what about spiritual certainty and […]
Reflection For Good Friday
Novelist Peter De Vries wrote The Blood of the Lamb about his eleven-year-old daughter, Carol, who died of leukaemia. At the children’s pavilion in the New York hospital the book’s main character, Wanderhope, gets to know other parents going through similar ordeals, including the jaded Stein, who announced, “The future is a thing of the […]
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