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Violence
Here’s an outline of a sermon my wife Jan preached (20th October 2002) at Boronia Baptist Church (where she is a pastor). Shalom! Rowland Croucher ~~~ VIOLENCE – What? Why? How? Who? Where? INTRODUCTION – Day of Mourning for the victims of the Bali bombing – The Age Editorial WHAT IS VIOLENCE? – Little children […]
Psalms On Sundays: 130 – Out Of The Depths
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-206 Sunday 20 Oct 2002 Reading: Psalm 130 – OUT OF THE DEPTHS ‘Step out beyond anxious waiting and into the storm of events’ (Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906-45). Martin Luther calls this, the sixth of seven penitential psalms, a ‘Pauline psalm’. We are introduced to the prayer leader conducting the congregation in worship […]
Stump In The Wasteland
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-208 (Expository Sermon) A STUMP IN THE WASTELAND Isaiah 5:1-6:13 by Rod Benson If Christ is enthroned in your heart, and if heaven is your homeland, and if you possess some understanding of the significance of the cross in history and in your personal experience, then the book of Isaiah can be […]
Psalms On Sundays: 131 – Humility, The Key
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-211 Sunday 27 Oct 2002 Reading: Psalm 131 – HUMILITY, THE KEY ‘My soul is restless until it finds its rest in you, O God’ (Augustine of Hippo, 354-430). Pride and ambition (v 1) are values with dangerous potential to distort our affections, perceptions, and life-choices. David, a public man with popular […]
Do You Know What Really Annoys Me About God?
Do you know what really annoys me about God? It’s the way He blesses all the wrong people. You would think that a reasonable God would be more selective. Having laid down rules in Scripture both for belief and behaviour, you would think He would give special advantages to those who abide by them. But […]
The Hebrew Midwives
This article grapples with matters of power differences, truth-telling, justice etc. The article studies the story of Shiprah and Puah, the midwives who refused to kill the newborn male babies of the Hebrew women.(Exodus chapters 1-2) Dykstra analyses the story, considers evidence the midwives may have been Hebrews, but more likely were Egyptian women, and […]
Discovering Reconciliation
by Mark G. Brett Professor of Hebrew Bible Whitley College, University of Melbourne. Readings: Leviticus 25.8-17; Matthew 5.21-25 St Hilary’s ‘Solace’ congregation, 26th August, 2001 Recently, an old friend from South Africa came and stayed with me for ten days, and each night we sat up late into the night, talking. It was a fascinating […]
Hearts Of Darkness (Part 2/2)
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-190 (Expository Sermon) [Continued from CLM-2-189] HEARTS OF DARKNESS (Part 2/2) Isaiah 1:21-2:5 by Rod Benson In Part 1 we saw how Isaiah’s world was overwhelmed by national spiritual corruption, and what God recommended his people do to change their precarious situation. Today we consider the social aspect of Israel’s corruption during […]
Psalms On Sundays: 132 – Single-Hearted Zeal
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-215 Sunday 03 Nov 2002 Reading: Psalm 132 – SINGLE-HEARTED ZEAL ‘Lord, prepare my heart to meet you today in this psalm. Open my eyes to perceive hidden truth.’ Rest, the theme of psalm 131, is balanced here by ‘holy activity’, a theme illustrated repeatedly in David’s own life of focused devotion […]
High Price Of Heaven, The
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-217 (Sermon – topical) THE HIGH PRICE OF HEAVEN Hebrews 12:14 by Rod Benson I wonder if you can relate to this “prayer for the day” I found recently: “So far today, God, I’ve done all right. I haven’t gossipped, I haven’t lost my temper. I haven’t been grumpy or nasty or […]
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