Monthly Archives: July 2011

Hunger and Distress. You Do Something!

31 July, 2011 – 9:22 am

delivered 31 July 2011 by Rev. Dr John Evans Genesis 32:22-31Psalm 17:1-7, 15Romans 9:1-5Matthew 14:13-21 Today I want to talk about food and meals. When I was a principal of a university college, people would ask me what was a residential college. I had a simple answer – we, the residents, eat together. Of course [...]

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Book review: The Year of Living Biblically

26 July, 2011 – 8:43 pm

Review of A.J. Jacobs, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible (William Heinemann, 2008) By Elizabeth Jacobs is an agnostic Jew living in a New York apartment with his wife, Julie, and two-year-old son, Jasper. Having read all of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in a year [...]

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Climate Change: Do we Love our Children Enough?

24 July, 2011 – 8:31 am

delivered 24 July 2011 by Rev. Dr John Evans Genesis 29:15-28 Psalm 105:1-11, 45b Romans 8:26-39 Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 In the great 8th chapter of Romans Paul explains and indeed extends his vision of the impact of Jesus Christ on our life in this way: We know the whole creation has been groaning in labour [...]

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The Wheat and Weeds: Taking the Bad with the Good

17 July, 2011 – 8:36 am

Delivered Sunday 17 July, 2011 By Rev Dr John Evans Genesis 28:10-19a Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 Romans 8:12-25 Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 As I get older – possibly wiser – this often maligned parable of the wheat and the weeds becomes more and more significant, for me personally – and I think for our increasingly diverse and [...]

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Living under the Law

15 July, 2011 – 3:58 pm

delivered on 3 July 2011 by Rev. Dr Wes Campbell Genesis 24: 34-38, 42-49, 58-67 Isaac and Rebecca Song of Songs 2: 8-13 A song of the beloved Romans 7: 15-25a Living ‘under the Law’’ Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30 ’My yoke is easy’ Last Sunday Bev and I went to an Anglican service. I noticed, [...]

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Distance and Belonging: The Christian and their Culture

10 July, 2011 – 12:29 pm

delivered by Rev. Dr John Evans Sunday 10 July 2011 Genesis 12:1-9 Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Well it is great being back. And what a privilege I have had for having the chance to do something completely different: to stop, reflect, read and write – about my own faith, about the life of the church today, [...]

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