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Psalms On Sundays: 85 – God Of Fidelity
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-191 Sunday 04 Nov 2001 Reading: PSALM 85 – GOD OF FIDELITY (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) The Lord invites you as you are. Worship him, bring him your feelings and needs. Ask his Holy Spirit to help you understand and respond to what you read. I’ll always remember a […]
Reaching The Goal
Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-171 (Sermon) REACHING THE GOAL Philippians 3:17-21 by Rod Benson For some of us life often seems an unfinished puzzle, a conundrum, a series of hit-and-miss actions and random interactions, and there seems to be little direction and purpose to our lives. For others, life is a breeze and everything seems to […]
George Whitefield’s Text – John 3:3 (F.W. Boreham)
George Whitefield’s (1714-1770) zeal for evangelization carried him across the Atlantic between Great Britain and America thirteen times. He passed back and forth between the two continents as though they were a pair of rural villages at a time when travel was a very dangerous undertaking. It was at Oxford University when he was a […]
Psalms On Sundays: 81 – Sound The Alert
Celebrate Grace Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-173 Sunday 07 Oct 2001 Reading: PSALM 81 – SOUND THE ALERT, CELEBRATE GRACE (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘O my people … if you would but listen to me’ (v 8). ‘Holy Spirit of God, help me now to listen deeply to your Word.’ ‘If you would […]
Man Of Steel (Jonah)
Our story begins with a 53 year old man who worked in lower Manhattan, NYC. He was a rough edged character who had spent most of his years working as a machinist. He had the uncanny ability to take the engineer’s dream and the draftsman’s design and literally make them come to life out of […]
Our God Is Able (Martin Luther King)
At the center of the Christian faith is the conviction that there is a God of power who is able to do exceedingly abundant things in nature and in history. This conviction is stressed over and over again in the Old and New Testaments. The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent […]
Psalms On Sundays: 82 – What Does The Lord Require
Require of You . . . Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-178 Sunday 14 Oct 2001 Reading: PSALM 82 – WHAT DOES THE LORD REQUIRE OF YOU? (See Micah 6:8) (From ‘Encounter with God’ Bible Reading Notes) ‘Lord, your Word is open before me. Help me, by your Spirit, to be open to you, willing for you […]
September 11, 2001 And The Problem Of Evil
The dramatic events of September 11, 2001 have raised – again – the most important theological question people ever ask, whether they’re religious or not, Christian or Muslim or Jew: Why do bad things happen? Around the world we watched CNN; we felt horror and anger and revulsion against the perpetrators; we wept with those […]
A Brief Encounter
Psalm 116:1-4,12-19 Luke 24:13-35 by Patricia de Jong April 21, 1996 —————————————————————————- —- On this third Sunday of Easter, our lectionary treats us to this story of The Emmaus Road from the Gospel of Luke. This story goes solo, as far as the Gospel writers are concerned. It is told only by Luke and bears […]
Angels Unaware
Genesis 18:1-10a (Year C: Proper 11) Luke 10:38-42 July 22, 2001 Last week we looked at the story of the Good Samaritan. I noted that it is considered the very rock bed of Jesus’ teaching and ethic. Not only do theologians tell us that Jesus lived out that example of universal kindness to all persons, […]
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