Thoughts, news and sermons from our Clergy and Missions
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Africa Air Aldom - 5 May 2012 : 19 May 2012
Greetings Friends,
Celebration – this has been my first summer without a sewerage flood in my flat. So good. Seems the City Council’s new pipes behind the house have done the job. So thankful.There have also been some hassles lately, and could I ask your extra prayer?
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Hosanna - Lord save us (Children's talk) : 03 April 2012
Hosanna comes from Psalm 118, here is a portion of psalm 118.
Hum! Can you read that? It looks very strange doesn’t it. It is the Hebrew wording of the psalm. You have to read it from the right to the left. It says I beg you Lord save us now.The word Hosanna originally meant save us. Well probably all of us here don’t need to be saved from anything. We all know Jesus and on top of that we all have enough food and everything else we could possible want. But if we are to pray hosanna as the early Hebrew people did we might pray for children in desperate need. Here are some pictures of children who need our prayers.
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Being people of the New Covenant : 25 March 2012
Commandments. I guess that is because I see true loved being expressed rather than a legal contract. So here is my list:
- Forgiveness and generosity;
- Passion for justice;
- Willingness to serve
- Playfulness and joy;
- Love and compassion
You might like to add other things you see as a way of life for the people of God. I had to stop and think after writing the list, what is my basis for this list.
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Africa Air Aldom - 5 March 2012 : 11 March 2012
Greetings Friends,
Hi from Windhoek, where life goes on basically as normal. Wet season is
winding down, the hills are bright green, and we even see mud at times. Autumn has arrived, and we leave the flat windows open all day, -
Cleansing the temple, a sign of the new heaven and the new earth. : 11 March 2012
To get an understanding of the emphasis John wants us to hear we need to recall the beginning of John’s Gospel. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1) John tells the gospel as a new creation story. In Jesus a new creation is being inaugurated. This is so new that even the things of faith that have seemed rock solid are destroyed. The Temple is no longer the locus, the place where you encounter God. You will encounter God in Jesus himself.
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Rev Sarah's Sermon for Lent 1 2012 : 02 March 2012
Opening Ourselves to God during Lent
They say you learn something new every day – it’s certainly true for me – in lots of ways, but one in particular for me this week. This year I have realised why the transfiguration reading is just before Lent – what a contrast between last week’s image and this week’s. Last week we saw Jesus’ divinity revealed in stark reality; this week , Jesus’ humanity is revealed. -
Palmers' Prayer and Praise Points - February 2012 : 31 January 2012
Praise Points
Give thanks for:- great teaching at CMS Summer School.
- the opportunity to meet with so many friends and supporters.
- Rachel Jordan who generously shared her home with us.
- quality time with our children and extended families.
Prayer Points
Please pray for:
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Australia Day - Epiphany 4 - Sunday 29th January 2012 : 30 January 2012
Our indigenous people, the first Australians, were here for a long time before any of us came along. They are perhaps the oldest group of people still living on our earth. Their stewardship of this country goes back over 40,000 years, whereas we’ve only been here a couple of hundred. They have been here two hundred times two hundred – which is a long time. No wonder when such an ancient people are confronted by Western civilisation – then there is no recipe for an easy convergence of the two, as we have seen recently.
I spent two years in Darwin with the army, and many times I travelled to Kakadu National Park and I loved the area around the township of Jabiru. -
Africa Air Aldom - 17 January 2012 : 21 January 2012
Greetings Friends,
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas, celebrating Jesus’ coming into our world, so that we can reconnect with God and have lives of purpose and value. There is much sadness and strife in our world, and at times in our homes. But Jesus gives us inspiration and a loftier vision in it all – praise Him.My jaunting across Australia is over, and I am back in Africa.
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Plunged into the Baptism Life : 08 January 2012
We heard Mark declare with urgency the Good news of Jesus Christ the Son of God. We saw John calling all to a baptism of repentance.
The invitation is for all of us to be baptised into Jesus. We are called to preach that same Good News for others also to glimpse the love of God. Even if all hell breaks loose God is with us.