Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-074 (General) GOD’S PASSION OUR HOPE Joel Edwards, General Director of Evangelical Alliance UK, has issued this call to remember the enduring Christian message of hope this Easter as lives continue to be overshadowed by international conflict and economic instability. ‘The Easter event stands at the very heart of Christian faith and […]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-064 (Expository Sermon) THE END AND THE BEGINNING Revelation 1:4-8 by Rod Benson In Reversed Thunder, Eugene Peterson helps us discover why the book of Revelation has never ceased to captivate and challenge its readers: This last book of the Bible takes the entire biblical revelation and re-images it in a compelling, […]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-066 Sunday 06 Apr 2003 Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 4 – PRAYER AS A WITNESS Search your heart, in private, and be silent for a moment (v 4). If the Psalms are the Word of God to us today, they speak to us because they come out of a special kind […]
EMBARGOED UNTIL 17 APRIL ANGLICAN MEDIA SYDNEY MEDIA RELEASE 14 April, 2003 Archbishop Peter Jensen’s Easter Message 2003 I have heard it said that Jesus was never in a trench and that he never felt hot lead pass by his neck. He never lost a child to war, and he was blissfully unaware of the […]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-071 Sunday 13 Apr 2003 Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 5 – MAKING SENSE OF OUR LIVES Think: what aspect of God’s character are you most sure of at the moment? Whatever your level of understanding, there is always something more to be grasped of God. In this psalm the first quality […]
By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org History has many examples of people pulling down life’s destructive powers. On April 9, a crowd of Iraqis and U.S. Marines pulled down a 40-foot statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad. The statue broke in half on its way down. Coincidentally, the U.S. Marine who draped the head […]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-067 (Devotional) RUNNING THE RACE by Peter Kennedy ‘I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.’ – 2 Timothy 4:7 John Foxe was born in Boston, England in 1516. He lost his father as a youth, and his relationship with his stepfather remained cool. […]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-062 Sunday 30 Mar 2003 Psalms on Sundays Reading: Psalm 3 – A Cry on a Dark Morning Recall the feelings which you struggled with at a time of deep family disappointment. This is the first of fourteen psalms linked to historical episodes in David’s life, here his flight from Absalom.(2 Sam […]
Revelation 1:9-20 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 advisable! As for prophetic visions, except for the occasional feeling of d ©j vu, […]
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 3-028 Sunday 09 Feb 2003 Reading: Psalm 146 – THE FIGHT OF PRAISE What experiences have you had of disappointment through misplaced trust? The book of Psalms ends with its own ‘Hallelujah Chorus’ – five psalms each topped and tailed with ‘Hallelujah’ or ‘Praise the Lord!’ These psalms are anonymous with few […]