Romans 12:3 In last week's sermon we saw how, in Romans 12:1-2, Paul commends a positive attitude toward God in God's attitude toward the world, and a negative attitude toward the world in its opposition to God, as the basis of Christian discipleship. There is great power in those words, and surprise, and challenge. But …
The new day
Sermon by Rod Benson, 13 November 2011 Romans 12:1-2 What’s your favourite time of day? Mine is the dawn – even if I have to wake up earlier during Daylight Saving to experience it! I love the new day – the freshness, the soft light, the furnace of the sun tearing through the bank of …
Sermon: What Jesus would say about immigration
Sermon by Rod Benson Sunday 9 October 2011 Scripture reading: Hebrews 13:1-3 Australia is a nation of immigrants with links to almost every other country and culture. Even the first Australians, of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, came to this land from somewhere else. All of us here today are immigrants or the descendants …
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Royal wedding sermon
Westminster Abbey - 29/04/11 (The sermon is available to watch on YouTube.) "Be whom God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire." So said St Catherine of Siena whose festival day this is. Marriage is intended to be a way in which man and woman help each other to become …
A biblical view of death
A sermon by Rod Benson Writing on mortality in the journal First Things, graduate philosophy student Anna Mathie relates what she describes as “the most exquisitely sorrowful moment in a book filled with exquisitely beautiful sorrow” (the book is J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings). In the story, Aragorn is at death’s door, and …
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