A man came up to us and said loudly to my son, “Your dad should teach you English!” Then he walked away. A seemingly innocuous statement made by a complete stranger to my four year old whilst we were standing at the checkout of the Coles supermarket at Castle Towers. My son just ignored it. However,…
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This is an excerpt of a sermon preached at St Paul’s Castle Hill on Deuteronomy 15. This was sermon a series based on Tim Keller’s, “Generous Justice”. Why should we bother to lift others up when there is so much to be gained by looking after yourself? Here are three reasons why we should get…
There is no doubt that the idea of caring for the poor, needy, and oppressed is biblical. However, how do we do social justice in a way which is not just guilt-laden and heavy-handed? The problem is that every day we are confronted by a world racked by sin and decay – a world that…
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Social justice is something which is really on the mind of many evangelical churches in Australia. The one I’m a minister at not withstanding! The interest in social justice has been growing over the past 5 years – in Sydney, we’re probably 5-8 years behind the rest of the evangelical world. And honestly, social justice…
In Luke 10:29, after hearing the Parable of the good Samaratin, a lawyer asks Jesus “Who is my neigbour?” Jesus makes it clear that just as the Samaritan in the parable loved “the injured man”, we as Christians are called to love all people as our neighbours. For when we love others we are moving…
Taste and See that Jesus is good! 