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Fathers’ Day Sermon
MATTHEW 1:18-25 & ROMANS 8:12-17 Here’s a sermon for you to file for next Fathers’ Day (or, if you’re a dad, to stop right now and read! It was preached by my wife Rev. Jan Croucher, children’s and family pastor at Syndal Baptist Church, Melbourne, Australia. Shalom! Rowland Croucher INTRODUCTION Fathers’ Day – great day, […]
What About Divorce And Remarriage
© 1996 Rod Benson. All rights reserved. A bride was very nervous about her imminent wedding. At the rehearsal she had her share of pre-wedding jitters, and when it was over the pastor quietly gave her some advice. "When you enter the church tomorrow," he said, "and the organist starts the processional, remember that you’ll […]
Help For Desperate Parents
Copyright © 1996 Rod Benson. All rights reserved. If you had the opportunity to do something daring, something extraordinary, something exhilarating and terrifying all wrapped into one, what would it be? I asked myself that question three weeks ago, and I decided to take up skydiving. That’s right – jumping out of a perfectly safe […]
Don’t Underestimate A Woman’s Wisdom
Copyright © Rod Benson 1996. All rights reserved. Last weekend The Australian Magazine published a list of the 100 most powerful women in the world, headed by Pakistan’s President Benazir Bhuto, followed by Hillary Clinton, the wife of the US President. Only one of those 100 women was under 30 years old, and only six […]
Parenting Sermon
Lynette’s father was a little Hitler, a tyrant, according to her childhood friends. She was not allowed to eat with other children in the dining room but was banished without reason to the kitchen. She got the silent treatment often from her father. He disliked her intensely. “Her father’s treatment scarred her badly,” an old […]
Christian Singles
Single adults are forming a higher percentage of our population as each decade passes. In the U.S., between 1975 and 1985 they grew from 47 million to 68 million. Australians also are marrying later and divorcing more. You are single, possibly through circumstance or chance rather than choice. My first word is an apology. By […]
The Mating Game
SEX IS EXCITING AND BEAUTIFUL AND DANGEROUS Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, provided it is received with thanksgiving; (1 Timothy 4:4) You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you… Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better […]
Families
Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.’ God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the […]
Mothers
Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything. (Ecclesiastes 11:5) Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion for the child of her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will […]
Men
Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed… The Lord God took the […]
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