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Showing posts with label sacrifice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sacrifice. Show all posts
Friday, 3 March 2023

'Saved by the Cross of Christ'. But How?

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  Text:   Romans 3.22b-31 According to the Apostle Paul, you and I are made right in God’s eyes not by our keeping of God’s law or commandme...
Sunday, 11 November 2018

Revolutions

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Ruth 3.1-5, 4.13-17; Psalm 127; Hebrews 9. 24-28; Mark 12. 38-44 The book of Ruth is a parable, a story written in order to undermine the...
Sunday, 26 April 2015

'I lay down my life' - Centenary of the Gallipoli landing 2015

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Texts:   1 John 3.16-24; John 10.11-18 How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country: Death pursues the man who flees,...
Sunday, 11 November 2012

God's Revolution

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Psalm 127; Hebrews 9. 24-28; Mark 12. 38-44 In the Four Quartets T.S. Eliot wrote this: . . .   In order to arrive there, to arrive ...
Sunday, 16 September 2012

Wisdom for a time of madness

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Proverbs 1.20-33; Psalm 19; James 3.1-12; Mark 8.27-38 We live in difficult and disorienting times. Sometimes I wonder if the world is g...
Sunday, 29 April 2012

I lay down my life

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Texts:  1 John 3.16-24; John 10.11-18 In the passage we read just now from John’s gospel, Jesus is addressing his Jewish opponents. ‘I ...
Saturday, 23 April 2011

Christ is risen to heal the world

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Texts: Romans 6.3-12; Matthew 28.1-10 Tonight we celebrate the resurrection of the crucified Jesus, an event that - in the faith of the chu...