A reflective time of worship for Good Friday 2025 Welcome and call to worship In the name of Jesus, our Saviour, our Master, welcome to the Good Friday service at North Rocks Community Church! This morning we gather to remember the worst of days, what we ironically call โGood Friday,โ the day on which Jesus …
Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice
Ligita Ryliลกkytฤ, Why the Cross? Divine Friendship and the Power of Justice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). 491pp. ISBN 9781009202763. Reviewed by Dr Rod Benson Published in the CUP series Current Issues in Theology, this book addresses the question, โWhat does it mean for the cross of Christ to save?โ This book offers a fresh …
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Loveโs as warm as tears
An Easter poem by C. S. Lewis:ย Loveโs as warm as tears,Love is tears:Pressure within the brain,Tension at the throat,Deluge, weeks of rain,Haystacks afloat,Featureless seas betweenHedges, where once was green Loveโs as fierce as fire, โจLove is fire:All sortsโInfernal heatClinkered with greed and pride, โจLyric desire, sharp-sweet,Laughing, even when denied, โจAnd that empyreal flame โจWhence …
Praying when God is silent
A sermon by Rod Benson Mark 15:21-39 Christians are people who pray. We love prayer. We love answers to prayer. We believe it is vital to our identity as Christians. And yet we are not immune to the malady of unanswered prayer. Is God indifferent to our cries for help, our desperate pleas, our intercession …
In the shadow of death
A sermon for Good Friday by Rod Benson Romans 5:6-8 Many Australians today identify Good Friday with nothing more than fish pie, or a long weekend, or beer, barbecues and beaches. But if you were to walk along Main Street and take a straw poll, and ask, โWhat is Good Friday about?โ you might get …
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