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God Sends Jesus
God sends Jesus to invite us all to seek life in the way of God’s far-reaching love. Some refuse the invitation, object to its intrusion, harass Jesus in his service and outreach, crucify him and seal his tomb. Others stand and watch, impotently grieving, as God’s project in Jesus peters out. The cross of Jesus symbolises massive negation of…
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Does Jesus call us to political discipleship?
With a group from our church I listened to Edward Norman giving the Reith Lectures, and was increasingly disturbed. It was a time when many of us had been stirred by books like John V. Taylor’s Enough is enough, by Martin Luther King, and whispers of Liberation Theology, and we were children of the post-1945…
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4G Jesus: Galilee, Gethsemane, Golgotha and Global
Transcript of a talk given at Moortown Baptist Church, 4th April 2023. You can listen to the talk here. Introduction I want this evening in this talk, to share the story of Jesus as I’ve come to know it, or at least part of it, and very imperfectly. You don’t have to agree with me.…
While it is yet day
Haddon Willmer