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A Christmas Message

By and others ⋅ January 5, 2003 ⋅ Post a comment

Lost, Hungry and Needing to find Home (Matthew 1:18- 2:19) By Kim Thoday Christmas is a time for miracles. Christmas is a time of miracles. Christmas is about the miracle of God choosing to become one with creation through the birth of Jesus Christ. For centuries before the birth of Jesus, Israel’s prophets had predicted […]

Joy To The Mall

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-227 (Sermon – topical) [1 December 2002 is the first Sunday in Advent. This is the second of three Advent sermons preached in 2001] JOY TO THE MALL Proverbs 10:3; 15:16-17 by Rod Benson In 1992 Mark Buchannan, a pastor in British Columbia, Canada, found himself in a small town called Wairacka […]

Jesus, Not The Reason For The Season

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. R-023 [Repeat of CLM 975: 24 Dec 1999] JESUS, NOT THE REASON FOR THE SEASON by James Irvine Jesus said, “God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, that everyone who has faith in him may not die but have eternal life. It was not to judge the […]

Adam And Eve

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One net friend: go forth and replenish the Earth. So does that mean the Earth also had previous forms of life? Another: Your argument is based on a shockingly bad translation of the Hebrew. None of the verbs in the sentence in the original Hebrew could be accurately translated as “replenish.” It is more accurate […]

Christmas Reflection – Any Rudolphs In Essendon? (Children’s Talk)

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I wonder, children, what your favorite Christmas Carol is? (HANDS UP) I have been singing & thinking about Rudolph all week. (Are there any Rudolphs in Essendon, I wonder?) What’s Rudolph’s story? Who’d like to tell us? (VOLUNTEER) Rudolph was a bit different. Made differently. Had this unique characteristic (shining red nose). (I had a […]

Psalms On Sundays: 135 – Remembrance

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-231 Sunday 24 Nov 2002 Reading: Psalm 135 – A PSALM OF REMEMBRANCE Pray that God will give you a renewed vision of who he is and what he has done The late Geoffrey Bull, imprisoned for his faith in early communist China, had lost almost every visible possession including his Bible. […]

Psalms On Sundays: 139 – The God Who Knows Us

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-250 Sunday 22 Dec 2002 Reading: Psalm 139 – THE GOD WHO KNOWS US ‘Lord draw me into your presence, to know as I am known, to love as I am loved.’ In this profoundly personal psalm, David confesses his wonder at the all-knowing, all-powerful and ever-present God. Beware of trying to […]

Away From The Manger

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-233 (Sermon – topical) [1 December 2002 is the first Sunday in Advent. This is the third of three Advent sermons preached in 2001] AWAY FROM THE MANGER Proverbs 11:28; 30:8b-9 by Rod Benson Here are ten rules that might govern a small child’s view of the world: 1. If I like […]

The Realism Of Christmas

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Religion in Daily Life By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church Sunday, 22 December 2002 http://www.allsaintstorresdale.org Christmas is a season that lends itself to becoming sentimentalized. The word “sentimental” suggests that we are liable to act from feelings rather than from logical thinking. We indulge in the sentimentalizing of Christmas when we […]

Psalms On Sundays: 129 – Battle Scars

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-202 Sunday 13 Oct 2002 Reading: Psalm 129 – BATTLE SCARS ‘God is encountered in the nakedness of pure trust’ (Thomas Merton, 1915-68). We are ‘hard pressed on every side, but not crushed,’ writes Paul (2 Cor 4:8). Seasons of pressure may be real enough for many of us: the modern blight […]

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