Sermon 8th November 2009 Pentecost 23
Ruth 1: 1-18; Psalm 146;
Hebrews 9: 11-14; Mark 12:38-44
Brunswick UCA
by Wes Campbell
A quote from the Age of Thursday last (5th November):
‘Forty years after Australian women won the right to equal pay, the Rudd government will back a major test case seeking hefty pay rises for 200,000 mostly female workers [...]
A sermon preached on All Saints Day at Church of All Nations, Carlton, Sunday 1st November 2009
Wes Campbell
Isaiah 25: 6-9; Psalm 24; Revelation 21; 1-6a; John 11: 32-44
Halloween Pumpkins have been on sale in the supermarket. In our street we were encouraged to join in trick or treat.
Are you turned off by the American [...]
Psalm 98
Gospel according to Mark 9: 30-37
Meditation
Let us acknowledge with thanks that we are on land cared for by the Elders of the Wurundjeri people for many millennia, and so commit ourselves to the task of reconciliation.
Today, here and now, we are sharing in a Valedictory service. The word valedictory means a farewell [...]
Dietrich Bonhoeffer says:
‘When Christ calls someone, he bids them come and die.’
Jesus says the food he has is for the children of Israel: not for ‘dogs’, for Gentiles. But the Gentile woman will not be put off. She argues that even the dogs get scraps under the table! She is pleading for his help, and changes his mind.
Pentecost 10Sermon 9 August 2009
Preached at Mark the Evangelsit, North Melbourne
2 Samuel 18: 5-9, 15, 31-35; Psalm 130; Ephesians 4: 25-5:2;
John 6:35, 41-51
Silence.
There is nothing so silent as an old, black and white photograph of the First World War.
That struck me quite forcibly last week in Bendigo art gallery. There, on display, were photos from [...]
Pentecost 3 sermon 21 June 2009
1 Samuel 17: 32-49 David and Goliath; Psalm 9: 9-20; 2 Corinthians 6: 1-13 Paul’s turbulent ministry; Mark 4: 35-41
In March 1799, the early days of the British occupation of New South Wales, local Aboriginal people warned the white settlers that the Hawkesbury River was going to flood. [...]
PENTECOST
May 31, 2009 *
Acts 2:1-21; Psalm 104:24-34, 35b; Romans 8:22-27
John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15
Spirit and spirituality are back in vogue. In the secular sixties of last century there was little permission to speak of spirit. The material and empirical were reliable, the measure of things.
When people speak of ‘spirituality’ now, it is not always clear what is [...]
Ascension 21st May, 2009
Acts 1:1-11 Psalm 47 or Psalm 93; Ephesians 1:15-23; Luke 24:44-53
We are on dangerous ground here.
When the apostles and the early church took up magisterial titles such as Lord, king, and ruler, applying them to Jesus, they were undertaking a process of radical deconstruction: a breaking down of received meanings, going to [...]
Meditation on Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Psalm 4; LUKE 24: 36b-48
The Lord is risen: He is risen indeed!
Prayer of the day
Eternal giver of light and life,
The day of resurrection shines with the radiance of the risen Jesus Christ;
Renew your church with the Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead,
And who has acted powerfully in [...]
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