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The Battle for the Vineyard (A sermon on Matthew 21:33-40)
Hear another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it and built a watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and moved to another place. When … Continue reading
The MacDonaldtown Parables (A sermon on Matthew 13:31-33, 44-45)
[Jesus] put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest … Continue reading
SAY NO TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
An address delivered at the ‘White Ribbon Day’ rally, Marrickville PCYC on Noverber 22, 2012. I must say that I was a little surprised to be invited to address this gathering today (surprised but delighted, I might add). Even so, … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged boxing community, church, community, fight, model, plenty, VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
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‘Business’ a 20 year rapflection.
[imaioVideo v=1] ‘Business’ a 20-year rapflection. Verse 1 We inherited church in its best order Anglicanism of the reformers From Henry VIII and his young daughter Tyndale and Cranmer bled and burned for her. But somehow we just lost the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Stuff
Tagged Business, church, David B. Smith Parish priest, Father, Henry VIII, rapflection, Truth, vision
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Who would Jesus Bomb? (A sermon on Mark 10:32-45)
They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again and began to tell them what was to happen … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons: Gospels
Tagged church, contestant, idea, integrity, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Mark, slave
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Should wives really SUBMIT to their husbands?
The following letter was passed on to me in good faith by a woman who was deeply concerned by the proposal of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney to re-introduce the word ‘submit’ into the marriage vows, such that the wife … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Stuff
Tagged abused wives, Anglican Diocese of Sydney, church, Diocese, husbands, minister, sermon, Sydney, violence
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Now is the time! (A sermon on 2 Corinthians 6:1-13)
As God’s fellow workers we urge you not to receive God’s grace in vain. For he says, ‘In the time of my favour I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the … Continue reading
Posted in Sermons: Epistles
Tagged 2 Corinthians, church, fight, line, record, St Paul, thorn
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Palestine in the American Imagination by Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud gives a powerful analysis of the way in America’s history and religion have generated a unique and bizarre Middle Eastern narrative, where the Israelis are always depicted as the ‘good guys’ and the Palestinians “are irrational, suicidal, demonic, … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged church, CUFI, Israel, Palestine, reason, television, vision
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What it means to be a Christian after George W. Bush by Professor Charles Marsh
“I am certain that it would be better for Christians to stand in solidarity with compassionate atheists and agnostics, firmly resolved against injustice and cruelty, than to sing “Amazing Grace” with the heroic masses who cannot tell the difference between … Continue reading
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Tagged Bonhoeffer, Christian, church, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, faith, George W. Bush, president, Spirit, wisdom
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