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Anglicare Sunday address

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Address by Leanne Wood Anglicare Manager for Research, Evaluation and Advocacy Thank you for the invitation to join you today, on Anglicare Sunday. I’ve worked for Anglicare for over a … Read more

In Deserted Places

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9th Sunday After Pentecost 2024 ©The Rev’d Dr John Rolley +In the Name of God, Loving Creator, Compassionate Christ, and the Healing Spirit. Amen. I would like to commence with … Read more

Sacred Violence

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Today we have two stories, that although different, are both equally horrifying. In the story of David and Goliath, we hear how David will cut off Goliath’s head and how they will leave the bodies of the Philistine army for animals to scavenge, ‘so that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.’[1] The Psalm also contains this theme of sacred violence as proof of God’s favour. This Psalm attributed to David portrays his cause as righteous with his enemies, who conveniently also happen to be God’s enemies. How do we look at these texts?

Trinity Sunday

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26 May 2024 St Andrew’s Indooroopilly Rev Richard Browning (NB: this text here is fuller than the one used on Sunday morning with a few end notes added) Isaiah 6.1-8 … Read more

“On a dark night”

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                                                           ©Lauren Martin In Tales of the Hasidim there is a story: An old rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and … Read more

EASTER II

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St Andrew’s Anglican Church, Indooroopilly 7 April 2024 Preaching on 1 John 1:1-2:2 Rev’d Richard Browning At the school Easter service I led on Holy Tuesday we used a 5.5kg … Read more

Easter Vigil Homily

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Matthew 28:1-18 ©Marian Free In the name of God, who in Jesus shows us how to be truly free – of our fears, our anxieties and our insecurities. Amen. Christ … Read more

“What an act of love!”

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SERMON Maundy Thursday John 13.1-17, 31b-35 Sunday 24 March 2024      ©Lauren Martin During supper, our Lord and teacher takes the place of a servant – removing his outer … Read more

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