Christmas Day as we experience it, and the roller-coaster preceding it, have evolved into a festival that is part cultural, part commercial, and part Christian. This is true throughout the Western world, from Santiago to Seoul, from Helsinki to Hobart. And especially here in Sydney. At the centre of our celebrations stands a season of generosity …
You are unique
Talk to Blakehurst Baptist Church Leisure Group Christmas Luncheon, 16 November 2000. Psalm 139:13-14 God could have come as a preformed child, found, like Superman, in a field somewhere - arriving not from Krypton but from heaven. Or God could have immediately created a whole body, as he did with Adam when he formed his flesh …
The mystery of Christmas
Talk to Blakehurst Baptist Church Leisure Group Christmas Luncheon, 19 November 1998 Isaiah 9:1-2 Weary, we arrive once more at Bethlehem,Asking if this yearly journey is needful or worthwhile.But, O God! Our God indeed!As Christmas approaches our hearts start to beat to your music,And our minds acknowledge a wonder set in strawWorth a thousand journeys …
Guess how much God loves you
A Christmas Day sermon by Rod Benson When my three boys were very young, I used to read to them in the evening, and one of my favourites was a 1994 British children’s book, Guess How Much I Love You, masterfully written by Sam MaBratney and beautifully illustrated by Anita Jeran. It tells the story …
Ten words at Christmas
Yesterday was Christmas Day and I thought I'd go to a church service close to where I'm holidaying in Brisbane, Australia. Responding to a text message from my 16-year-old son giving me the start time, I turned up to Unnamed Baptist Church on time, alone, in a car emblazoned with bright yellow interstate number plates, …
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