What can we look forward to?
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Unity
A sermon offered 3 July 2022 By The Rev’d Ann Edwards Galatians 5 and 6 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. At the Southern Queensland Synod last week, the Archbishop made an address which included, amongst many other important things, his assessment of the legality of blessing civil
Virgil and Luke the Evangelist: Stories and Truth Telling
Acts recounts the events of the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome and Mark Powell describes this book best.
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The Conversion of Saul
A sermon offered by The Reverend Ann Edwards May 1, 2022 Acts 9: 1-22 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It’s so easy to read the story of Saul’s conversion, knowing the ending, and thinking about it in light of the Paul we know, who would go
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Parallels
A sermon for Easter 2, 24 April 2022 The Reverend Ann Edwards Acts 5: 27-29 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. 27 When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, 28 saying, “We gave you strict orders not to
Our shared fate and the importance of community
A sermon offered by The Reverend Ann Edwards 20 March 2022 | St Mark’s The Gap This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Have you heard it said that when friends pray, you are under the umbrella of God’s protection? It sounds wonderful, doesn’t it – reassuring, like gathering under
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The Wilderness: The Lost are Found
The wilderness – the test of faithfulness In Jesus’s story, the chronological events, the story of the testing in the wilderness is immediately after Jesus’s Baptism, when Jesus is declared God’s beloved and pleasing son. Jesus goes from the Jordan, and full of the Spirit, follows that divine call into the wilderness prior to beginning
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The Transfiguration: A Revelation for Today
Luke 9: 28-36 The transfiguration has been strangely neglected in our Christian calendar, perhaps because it is so ineffable. This account of the Transfiguration is the nexus of Luke’s Gospel account, a hub that links past and present and future together in God’s salvation history, that connects creation and creator, law, and grace. And it
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