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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: A, Post-Pentecost 16 Proper 21 - Philippians 2:1-5 "True Belief"
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Saturday, September 27, 2014. A, Post-Pentecost 16 Proper 21 - Philippians 2:1-5 "True Belief". Download WORD doc here. It might be very easy in these days to be carried away by fear and terror like Henny Penny running around in a mad panic as if the sky was falling in on us. It seems the media would encourage us to do this so they can exercise control over us for the benefit of their ratings and advertising sales. Just as easy is becoming complacent over the events going on around us. On hearing the new...
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014. B, Christmas Eve/Christmas Day Isaiah 9:2-7 "The Way Things Are Meant To Be". Download WORD Doc Here. However, humans being what we are, as Joseph trudged his way from Nazareth to Bethlehem with a woman carrying a child of whom he was not the father, not to mention a heavily pregnant woman, ripe and ready to give birth at any moment, most of us would forgive Joseph being upset at the government for having them travel at this time to appease the bureaucratic busybodies in Rome.
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: February 2014
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Saturday, February 01, 2014. A, Epiphany 4 - Matthew 5:6 "Hunger and Thirst". Download WORD doc here. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. When a person is blessed, they’re set apart, they’re privileged, and they’re given more. Some translations use the word “happy” but being blessed is happier than happy, rather one is holy when one is blessed. Jesus declares this blessedness comes as a result of what? I’d just fill myself with righteousness. How can on...
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: September 2014
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Saturday, September 27, 2014. A, Post-Pentecost 16 Proper 21 - Philippians 2:1-5 "True Belief". Download WORD doc here. It might be very easy in these days to be carried away by fear and terror like Henny Penny running around in a mad panic as if the sky was falling in on us. It seems the media would encourage us to do this so they can exercise control over us for the benefit of their ratings and advertising sales. Just as easy is becoming complacent over the events going on around us. On hearing the new...
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: November 2012
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Thursday, November 29, 2012. C, Advent 1 – Luke 21:25-36 “A Global Warning”. Download WORD doc here. The weather is always a topic for discussion. It seems many watch the weather with fear placing their hopes in favourable outcomes. In recent times we hear much about global warming; the planet is getting hotter and therefore weather events are becoming more extreme and unexpectedly occurring at times of the year when they shouldn't. How are we to react as Christians when we hear of such things? This phen...
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: April 2013
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Saturday, April 20, 2013. C, Easter 4 – John 27-28 “Hear Know Follow”. Download WORD doc here. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. (John 10:27–28 ESV). To hear, to know, to follow! These three little verbs sum up God's interaction with each of us in one succinct little statement. If we ask ourselves, "What is my purpose in this life? The answer simply comes back, "hear and follow"!
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: B, Christmas Eve/Christmas Day Isaiah 9:2-7 "The Way Things Are Meant To Be"
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Tuesday, December 23, 2014. B, Christmas Eve/Christmas Day Isaiah 9:2-7 "The Way Things Are Meant To Be". Download WORD Doc Here. However, humans being what we are, as Joseph trudged his way from Nazareth to Bethlehem with a woman carrying a child of whom he was not the father, not to mention a heavily pregnant woman, ripe and ready to give birth at any moment, most of us would forgive Joseph being upset at the government for having them travel at this time to appease the bureaucratic busybodies in Rome.
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: May 2013
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Sunday, May 26, 2013. C, Holy Trinity - Psalm 8:1-2 "From the Mouths of Babies". Download WORD doc here. Recently on television, Ruby Wax, an American comedian, known for her obnoxious portrayal of an American in Great Britain, speaking about the mental state of people said, “We’ve evolved technically, but emotionally we’re all idiots, we’re still in the slime! She was saying “all of us struggle” and it’s true we all do! But really we go from one dilemma to another. So for all the advancements humanity m...
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: B, Lent 2 Mark 8:31-38 "Letting Christ Be Your Christ"
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. B, Lent 2 Mark 8:31-38 "Letting Christ Be Your Christ". During these forty days of Lent we reflect on Jesus’ walk to the cross. This cross is the cross of shame, the cross of humiliation, a cross of disgrace, remorse and alienation. Jesus walk to the cross and death was a walk of loneliness, being alone, being set apart from the pack and picked on for being different… and for being the same. With him God was well pleased. Out in the wilderness Satan’s ultimate goal was ...
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FRIARPUK'S POSTINGS: February 2015
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Saturday, February 28, 2015. B, Lent 2 Mark 8:31-38 "Letting Christ Be Your Christ". During these forty days of Lent we reflect on Jesus’ walk to the cross. This cross is the cross of shame, the cross of humiliation, a cross of disgrace, remorse and alienation. Jesus walk to the cross and death was a walk of loneliness, being alone, being set apart from the pack and picked on for being different… and for being the same. With him God was well pleased. Out in the wilderness Satan’s ultimate goal was ...
