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Psalms On Sundays: 127 – Vanity And Vision

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-193 Sunday 29 Sep 2002 Reading: Psalm 127 – VANITY AND VISION ‘Unless the Lord build the house, its builders labour in vain.’ (Ps 127:1) This is an age in which human endeavour is praised and valued. We pride ourselves on the great achievements of humanity. Part of the reaction to the […]

Psalms On Sundays: 133 – Unity From Above

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-220 Sunday 10 Nov 2002 Reading: Psalm 133 – UNITY FROM ABOVE ‘Help me, Lord, to see fellow believers as your beloved children, not just as they are naturally.’ How do we feel about our fellow Christians? What are our relationships with them like? Do the edges begin to fray as we […]

Shack For The Messiah

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-195 (Sermon) A SHACK FOR THE MESSIAH? Scripture: Matthew 17:1-13 by Don McLellan I am taking a while to get used to the Tasmanian idea of a shack. I have known about Tasmanians and their love affair with shacks for years. But it still bemuses this former Queenslander that you can never […]

Land Of The Spree

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-222 (Sermon – topical) [1 December 2002 is the first Sunday in Advent. This is the first of three Advent sermons preached in 2001] LAND OF THE SPREE Proverbs 18:10-11; 28:6 by Rod Benson There are only [23] days to Christmas. Yesterday, in one of our annual rituals, our family installed our […]

Barzillai’s Kiss

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-197 (Devotional) BARZILLAI’S KISS by Barri Cae Mallin Mention the word kiss and folks’ ears tend to perk up. And if you mention kissing in the Bible, that really gets folks’ attention. Kissing really is an ancient family greeting – most of the patriarchs expressed their devotions through kissing. Some of the […]

Psalms On Sundays: 134 – Unclouded Praise

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-225 Sunday 17 Nov 2002 Reading: Psalm 134 – UNCLOUDED PRAISE ‘O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth’.(Ps 8:1,9) This short and beautiful benediction is the last of this group of ‘songs of ascent’. Drink in its atmosphere, picturing the priests and singing Levites, ministering in […]

Divorce – Outline Of A Sermon

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Tomorrow, I’m preaching on Divorce. Here’s the outline. See http://jmm.org.au/articles/4972.htm for the full text. DIVORCE: A CHRISTIAN VIEW INTRODUCTION: a.. Divorce is almost always painful a.. It’s a big industry a.. Three broad Christian views (Conservative, Progressive, Liberal) a.. The situation today FOUR APPROACHES: 1. LAW / BIBLE – Genesis 2:18-25, Deuteronomy 24:1-4, Matthew 5:27-32, […]

The Exodus

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[Sent by email. Names withheld] The story of the exodus that we have been following in the lectionary over the past few weeks has reminded me again of the inherent drama of this great story of our faith. No wonder Cecil B De Mille thought it worthy of one of his great screen epics! Some […]

Do Miracles Happen?

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Luke 13:10 – 17 Two primary schools combined to one in an old country town, so they auctioned off the surplus equipment. At the end of long day’s sale program the auctioneer was down to the last and cheapest item. It was battered and scarred, and the auctioneer felt it was hardly worth his to […]

Sunshine After A Storm

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Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-200 (Expository Sermon) SUNSHINE AFTER A STORM (Isaiah 2:6-4:6) by Rod Benson There is something special about sunshine after a storm, whether the storm is meteorological or moral. In Isaiah 2:6-4:6, the eighth century prophet describes a moral storm that threatened to swamp Judah, followed by the calm and consolation and celebration […]

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