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Tag Archives: Forgiveness
Sermon – Healing The Soul (Mark 2:1-12)
Sermon ‘Healing The Soul’ (Mark 2:1-12) by Rev Dr John Warner is available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2k1jhEs
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Sermon – We Are All Unclean (Matthew 15:1-20)
Why does Jesus say we are all unclean?
Sermon ‘We Are All Unclean’ (Matthew 15:1-20) by Bernie Leo is now available in audio and video: http://bit.ly/2jDRVAh
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Full Text of this Talk – We are All Unclean (Matthew 15:1-20)
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‘Forgiveness’ – easier said than done
‘If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times comes back to you and says ‘I repent,’ forgive him.’ (Luke 17:3b-4)
I have always found this verse to be a bit rich and pastorally insensitive. In fact this whole idea of what appears to be unconditional forgiveness seems to be a big ask – and it is not only mentioned here in Luke.
In the gospel of Matthew the disciple Peter asks Jesus ‘Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me? Up to seven times?’ and Jesus answers ‘not seven times, but seventy-seven times’!
Gospel Bite: ‘I have done too many wrong things ever to be a Christian!’
Imagine a friend declares (either with sincerity or a touch of pride): ‘I’ve done too many wrong things ever to be a Christian’. How might you respond?
Living Patiently as a Christian
How do you live patiently as a Christian…
- when it comes to being mistreated for your faith?
- when it comes to being provoked in small or great ways?
- when it comes to quite simply getting annoyed at people or life?
Anzac Day & Easter
There is a strange tension in the way that our world relates to both Easter and Anzac Day
Anzac Day quite rightly asks us to pause and remember the sacrifice of our forefathers who went to battle and in many cases never returned. They fought for the freedoms that we now enjoy and willingly laid down their lives to keep the enemy at bay. It is a good thing that our society protects and honours our Anzacs.
Easter asks us to pause and remember the life, death and resurrection of Jesus who went into battle to deal with our rebellion and returned to confirm that he had achieved what he promised. He died for the forgiveness of our sin, but not just our sin, that of all people – family, friend, neighbour, and even foe.
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