9. Infants or Grown Ups? Ephesians 4.14-16
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9. Infants or Grown Ups? Ephesians 4.14-16
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on 8 February 2105
A church of infants looks like this... And is caused by this... But can grow up by this means... to be ...
If I could say one thing... 8 Feb 15
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If I could say one thing...
It would be a miracle. Preachers can rarely say just one thing. And the older they get the more they have to say and the more they repeat themselves and say the same things over again in different ways, so that you feel as though you have heard the same thing again and again – like a cracked record (do you remember cracked records?).
The one thing to say, about Christian ministry at least, is that it is all about Christ. Paul said, “For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.” (2 Cor 4.5). It is easy, in the church, to highlight many things because there are many important aspects of the Christian life which we share in the church. But all of the important ones depend on Christ. The church itself is Christ – not the organisation or the services, but the body of people who belong to Christ and who meet in his name.
8. Measuring up and Doing Credit to our Calling Ephesians 4.1-13
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8. Measuring up and Doing Credit to our Calling Ephesians 4.1-13
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on 1 February 2015
Relationships with each other; keeping and strengthening and building up the body.
7. Filled with God Ephesians 3.14-21
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7. Filled with God Ephesians 3.14-21
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on 25 January 2015
Prayer for..? Power for ...? And then...? Is it realistic?
Who am I? 1 Feb 15
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Who am I?
The church is obviously a mixing pot of all the different groups of people who live on the face of the earth. Although mixing pot may not be the best way to describe it. “Mixing pot” implies a kind of confused mess, a bit like the youth group game I heard of once where everyone brought a tin of food with the label removed (back in the days when there were removable labels). All these tins were opened and put into a single pot – baked beans, peaches, peas, beetroot, soup, apricots … and that was supper that night!
But each of us values the things that give us our identity. Perhaps it is our ethnic heritage, perhaps something in our family history, maybe our education, or experiences, or gender, where we live, or where we were born. There are many things that go to make up our identity.
6. Secret No Longer Ephesians 3.1-13
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6. Secret No Longer Ephesians 3.1-13
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on 18 January 2015
The gospel that puts into effect the working out of the big Secret, God's great plan to unite all peoples in his family
What should Australia Celebrate? 25Jan15
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What should Australia Celebrate?
Or maybe the question should be 'When should Australia celebrate?' January 26 seems an odd date. In fact it was not until 1935 that all Australian states used that date to celebrate something they called Australia Day. Because at first it was the New South Wales founding day, and other states such as South Australia pointed out that NSW was not the 'parent colony'. Each had their own days to remember their founding.
But eventually the day caught on. According to the official history, for the centenary, “Sir Henry Parkes, Premier of New South Wales, planned something for everyone, or almost everyone. When questioned about what was being planned for the Aborigines, Parkes retorted, 'And remind them that we have robbed them?' At the centre of his plans was the unveiling of a statue of Queen Victoria.”
By 1938 about one hundred Aborigines gathered in Sydney to present a different view of the celebrations.