Monthly Archives: July 2009

What Binds Us Together?

27 July, 2009 – 8:21 am

delivered 26 July 2009
by Rev Dr John Evans
2 Samuel 11:1-15
Psalm 14
Ephesians 3:14-21
John 6:1-21
Today’s reading about David and Bathsheba, and her unfortunate husband Uriah, reads like yesterday’s headlines about football celebrities with no moral compass. Or indeed it is like anyone with enormous power and status who simply does what they like for their own enjoyment [...]

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Newness is a possiblity

20 July, 2009 – 8:48 am

delivered on 19 July  2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Ephesians 2:11-22
Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
A baptism is a great occasion.  It is an occasion for rejoicing and celebration for the person who is baptised and for the church which welcomes a newly baptised member. Today the baptism of young Alexander is one of those great days here at [...]

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What is our story?

13 July, 2009 – 8:37 am

delivered 12 July 2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
Mark 6:14-29
Last Sunday afternoon I attended a seminar conducted by the US teacher and writer Diana Butler Bass.  She has studied what makes church congregations tick, and particularly why some seem to have more life and vibrancy than others.  To do this she presented some ways, different ways, [...]

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Bulletin Sunday 5 July 2009

6 July, 2009 – 10:02 am

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Power and love

6 July, 2009 – 9:45 am

delivered 5 July 2009
by Rev. Dr John Evans
2 Samuel 5:1-5, 9-10
Psalm 48
2 Corinthians 12:2-10
Mark 6:1-13
Daniel Smith-Christopher (right), the keynote speaker at the recent Wisdom’s Feast conference, and preacher here at the Church of All Nations just a two weeks ago, says in a recent book that Jesus is a “good coyote” — that North American [...]

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Bulletin for Sunday 28 June 2009

2 July, 2009 – 4:25 pm

Sunday Bulletin 28 June 2009

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