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Gospel According To Caiaphas
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-052 (Sermon/notes) THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO CAIAPHAS by Barri Mallin What is it about That Man? I recall the days when we at the Sanhedrin got the report about John, Wilderness man, issuing forth a call to repent. (Luke 3:2-3) We knew our Holy Scriptures, we knew the requirements of the Day […]
Psalms On Sundays: 92 – Christmas Praise
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-225 Sunday 23 Dec 2001 Reading: PSALM 92 – CHRISTMAS PRAISE (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘It is good … to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night’ (vs 1,2}. l’m always taken by surprise that the music of Christmas praise never seems to grow stale […]
Psalms On Sundays: 99 – Holy, Holy, Holy
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-029 Sunday 10 Feb 2002 Reading: PSALM 99 – HOLY, HOLY, HOLY (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘Be still for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One, is here; bow down before him now, with reverence and fear.’ What appears to be a threefold refrain sets the tone for […]
A Christmas Talk To Women Prisoners
Note: My wife Jan, and daughter Lindy visit the Deer Park Women’s Prison in Melbourne every week to conduct ‘Christian Discussion Groups’, craft classes etc. Lindy is the Prison Network Ministries’ coordinator of volunteers, and does this ministry virtually full-time. On the Sunday before Christmas, 2001, we ran a ‘Church Service’ for the various wings […]
More Than Just An Angry Revolutionary (Rowan Forster)
[The Age ‘Faith’ column earlier this month – December 2001] Title: “More than Just an Angry Revolutionary.” At this time of the year, many of us will find ourselves singing Christmas carols whose words are so familiar that we may have become either blase or oblivious to their meaning and significance. For instance, we may […]
The Great Chain Of Being (Richard Rohr)
Francis called all creatures, no matter how small, by the name of brother and sister, because he knew they had the same source as himself. – Saint Bonaventure’s Life of Francis We have decided to celebrate our tenth anniversary of the Center for Action and Contemplation with a special issue of Radical Grace. After ten […]
Psalms On Sundays: 93 – The Lord Reigns
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-229 Sunday 30 Dec 2001 Reading: PSALM 93 – THE LORD REIGNS IN 2002 (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘O thou who art ever the same, grant us so to pass through the coming year with faithful hearts, that we may be able in all things to please thy loving […]
Psalms On Sundays: 94 – Rise Up, O Lord
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-009 Sunday 06 Jan 2002 Reading: PSALM 94 – RISE UP, O LORD (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) Imagine you are a Christian in a war-torn country, living in constant fear of your life. Then make this prayer your own. Not many of us who go blithely off to church […]
Psalms On Sundays: 95 – He Is Our God
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 2-009 Sunday 13 Jan 2002 Reading: PSALM 95 – HE IS OUR GOD (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) Ask God to use this psalm to enable you to worship him today with positive excitement and joy. While we should always beware of contrived or forced heartiness, sometimes worship just takes […]
Wrestling With The Word
by William O’Brien THE BATTLE FOR THE BIBLE — WHAT IT MEANS, and how we interpret and apply it to our lives and our world–has been waged for at least two thousand years. History is replete with the casualties of that battle. The Scriptures have served as propagandistic fodder for slavery, subjugation of women, even […]
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