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A Surprising Saviour: Israel In Crisis
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- Written by David Hassan
Isaiah 6:1-8
The King is dead Long live the King!
Those words are often spoken at the end of a Kings reign
Marking the beginning of another
Today here in Isaiah 6 King Uzziah King of Jerusalem dies
Thank around 791-740 BC
A Surprising Saviour: A Day He Has In Store
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- Written by David Hassan
Isaiah 2:5-22
Where we left of last week
We come to see ourselves who we are
What we need
Today Isaiah meets us here wants us clear that the line between good and evil runs right through everyone’s heart
There are consequences for what we let rule our hearts
God has also shown us that something needs to happen
An outrageous transformation needs to take place
for things to change
every part about us has to change if we are to be transformed into the likeness of Christ
The Widow: Persistance
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- Written by David Hassan
The Widow: Persistance
Luke 18:1-8
Martin Luther of the Reformation from the 1500’s prayed 4 hours each day
he prayed not despite his busy life, so much so because of it[1]
one day as Luther’s barber was cutting his hair
He asked him how he should pray
In Luther’s time prayer was always only done by a priests
prayers were said in Latin
for the masses prayer remained the mystical experience of the unknown
The Invisible Man
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- Written by David Hassan
The Invisible Man
Luke 16:19-31
This fresco by Italian Painter Domenico di Michelino in 1442
Is found in the Florence Cathedral Italy
The Rascal
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- Written by David Hassan
The Rascal
Luke 16:1-9
Today we come to one of those parables we’ve read many times but have been uncertain what to do with it
a parable like this feels like it comes from another world
in some ways this would have to be
one of the most often ignored parables of Jesus
like anything we take from the Bible
it’s important that we read this parable in its context
Some parables require us to work a little harder to get the sense of them
This is one of those
MATTHEW 10:1-15
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- Written by Chris Balzer
MATTHEW 10:1-15
(1 Samuel 8:1-22)
- I can remember seeing Hillary Clinton some years ago on television pleading with the Democratic voters of Texas to vote for her. She was reminding them that if she is elected, she would end up being Commander-in-Chief.
- The unspoken hint was that she could handle that role better than Barak Obama – she is experienced!
- The President of the United States, whoever that person might be, has considerable power and authority, but there are some checks on that power.
MATTHEW 9:18-38
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MATTHEW 9:18-38
(2 Kings 5:1-19)
- Do you remember Mikhail Gorbachev? He was President of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991.
- Gorbachev said this:
“Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.”
- Is that what Jesus was?
- We can understand the Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party saying this. Gorbachev was trying to claim that, in some way, Jesus was a Communist.
- But did Gorbachev get it right?
- If I say something about Communism, Gorbachev might quite rightly insist that I quote from Karl Marx or Vladimir Lenin.
- We really ought to direct Mikhail Gorbachev to the source of Christianity, the New Testament. And the same applies, of course, to people living in Australia today.
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