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A new teaching and that’s some object lesson!
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After All the Excitement
Ah … experiences
Aliens
All the beginnings
Always helping
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Among the wolves that’s for sure
Amongst all the rules
And Jesus goes with us
and Perception
and religion
and the wilderness
At any time and place
B
Be glad and rejoice!
Be sure not to miss ...
Because a person needs it
Because I love you
Being nice to God or God being nice to us?
Being strong in the Lord
Beyond the Cuteness
Beyond the power
Blessed
Boasting in the Lord
Breaking in
C.
can he?!
Can this be for real?
Catapulted rather than Graduated
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day
Come Away and Rest
Come to the banquet
Communication happens
Congregation’s 10th Birthday
Controversial Discipleship
C’s for A
Dealing with another hard saying
Didn’t see that coming!
Discipleship Details
Discipleship: Resisting Evil
Do we need another Reformation?
Does God dwell with his people?
Does God hate Esau?!
Doing good
Don’t be afraid!
Don’t look at me! I’d like you to meet Jesus!
Easter
Endurance
Even if you’ve come in part-way through ...
Experiences in their place
Faith – a daily relationship
Faith: it is about ‘becoming’
Faithfulness and Steadfast Love
Feast Of St Matthew
Finally …
Following God’s Word FOR ME
Following Jesus
Following the Lamb
For all
For all of life
Forgiveness is the only way to live
From the beginning
Gathered around the Word
Getting away from the rules
Getting Cleaned Up
Getting holiness ‘right’
Getting our heads and lives around freedom
Getting our heads around leadership … once more
Getting the choices and consequences right
Getting the message right – Getting the message out
Getting the scandals in the right order
Getting to the centre of things
God
God builds his Church
God can’t be serious
God comes close to us safely and there’s no better way to live
God in court
God is good – and good for us
God Reveals Himself to Everyone
God's Word
God’s Word changes everything!
God’s Word for me for all time
God’s Word for me today
Going for a walk
Good Friday
Good God?! … Yes … that means Jesus!
Grace! It’s all about Grace!
Growing
Haggling About One
Harvest Thanksgiving
He helps … he does!
He said what?!
He's Our Lord too!
Hidden
his people
Hope and Praise: A Lively Combination
How feasible is forgiveness?
How to discern what is best?
I am Lazarus
I didn’t expect this!
I know it sounds preposterous but …
Identities
If clothes make the man …
Imitators?!
Immortality in Mortality
In all circumstances
In our time and place
In real time
In the cave
In the eye of the beholder
In the storm
In truth and love
Incognito
Inside Out
Interested even in the ‘little’ things
Is the resurrection another ‘rabbit hole’?
It has been granted to us …
It is all about life and living
It is always about life and death
It really is about life and death
It's so revolutionary
It’s a paradox – but what a way to live!
It’s always all about Jesus
It’s always only ever about the Gospel
It’s hard to talk about sin
It’s not exactly a matter of heads or tails
It’s ok to lament
It’s the listening that counts!
Jesus ... threat or gift?
Jesus and the Law
Jesus is and has the words of life
Jesus is King
Jesus is Lord of Everything
Jesus is still doing the extraordinary
Jesus just won’t be pigeonholed!
Jesus never leaves us
Jesus said what?! Jesus did what?!
Jesus – just not conforming!
Jesus – Person
Jesus – the perceived threat that isn’t
Just how close …
Just one thing
Keeping our focus always on Jesus
Knowing the end
Knowing the Word of God
Knowing why and how to do what we do
Leaping with the best foot
Learning the best truth of all each day
Learning to give thanks in the moment
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus
Life with God has Begun
Life worth living
Light in the Lord
Listen to him!
Listen!
Listening in on Galatians: The Law never sets us free
Living among the weeds
Living between public doctrine and pious opinion
Living each day
Living in a Real World
Living in the Big Picture
Living the Gospel
Living today … because the future is secure
Living with God
Local Knowledge
Look up and follow Jesus
Lord
Love one another
Love … a still more excellent way
Maundy Thursday
Meeting the One who tells parables
Monday to Saturday Living
More than a memory
More than expected
More than we can ever see
My salvation will last forever
Never Alone
No compromise Jesus!
No matter how tough it gets …
Not fake news or April's Fools!
Not in our image
Not Your Average Birth at All
Nothing can separate us from God’s love … truly!
O Lord?!!
O my soul
Of all the things that are written
On the fringe of our ears
On the inside
One and Many
One day at a time
One in the gospel – that’s the cross right?
One more time: God is love
Only Jesus
Parting Messages
Party
Pentecost has not ended
Perspective
Political rather than pastoral
politics
Power
Power in the hands of the Good
Practical Stuff – but it is stuff we find very tough
Praise the Lord
Prayer? On whose terms?
Processing the resurrection
Push away as much as you want but Jesus isn’t going anywhere!
Reading the Signs
Real Presence
Reflecting on Mathews Account of the Baptism of Jesus
Reformation: hearing the words properly
Rejoice in the Lord Always!
Remember
Remember the Paradox
Remembering beyond what we see
Remembering the big picture
Resurrection
Resurrection Realities
Ringing in our ears
Saints – eye sore or hear say?
Salt and Light
Sanctification is never easy
Say to the daughter of Zion
Scary fine print gives way to Jesus
Seeing Clearly
Seeing doesn’t mean understanding – that’s why you need to listen
Seeing right
Seeing the big picture and ourselves wisely
Seeing the Truth
Seeing things are they truly are
Seeking to be Peacemakers
Serving the world and giving glory to God
Seventh Sunday of Easter
Seventy-Seven Times
Shall we go to the movies?
Sharing the Weak and Suffering God
Sin and Grace – the bias you want to have
Sinners Only
Skit: Not Quite What I Expected
Sorry?! But who are we talking about?!
St Titus – a good pastor
Stable in all storms
Staying focused on Jesus
Still going out into the world
Still in the Garden
Stop talking about greatness!
Stories not atoms
Submitting to Submission
Talk? Who wants more talk?
teach us to pray
Tempted to indulge? Try the Word of God!
Text and Context
The A
The ambiguity of angels
The Answer that Counts
The battle lines are forming …
The Best Happy Ending
The best perspective ever
The best spoilers of all
The Christmas letter not on easy street
The Christmas news just keeps getting better
The Church is not meant to separate
The day
The Destination is Not Unimportant!
The Festival of Pentecost
The Final Curtain
The first time we know Jesus is not like us isn’t a bad thing
The Gift of Good Friday
The God who comes to serve!
The Good
The Good News of Jesus is still spreading out
The Gracious Father
The Greatest News of All
The Handout
The Journey and the Perspective
The judgement feared is the one needed
The Lord IS at hand. Truly.
The meaning of life
The message is clear
The Mystery of Rebellion and the Greater Mystery of Grace
The paradox and the truth
The politics of it all
The Real Jesus
The Resurrection Reality – Life has just got a lot more complicated
The Signs
The Son of God
The Speaker behind the Words
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases … never
The Ultimate Mystery – the Finite can Contain the Infinite
The vocabulary for sin
The Water of Pentecost
The words and the speaker
The world is a stage!
there are no us and them
They are our psalms too!
They shall be comforted
Those who have ears let them hear
Through Jesus alone
Times and Ways
To be humble (in Christ) is to look to others
To lose the Gospel is to lose everything
Together
Too Bright
Touched by Jesus
Tough words
Travelling confidently in the landscape
Trust and Wait
Trusting God in the Moments of Time
Unbelievable?!
Under God’s Word
Under the cross
Voices in a Wilderness
Walk wisely
Walking to which tune?
Watch and What?
Watch the words and see
We are the stories we tell ourselves
We are what we eat ; we are what we believe
We don’t hold onto the message because the message holds onto us
We need real
We need the organisation but don’t let it become a god!
We need the whole package
We want to see Jesus!
week
What a crazy thing to do?!
What a strange King?!
What did the centurion see?
What do you hear?
What do you mean – he changed his mind?!
What do you say on Easter Day?
What does it mean?
What is forgiveness all about?
What is the ending?
What Last Sunday is all about
What the voice says
What you see is only a hint at what you get!
What’s the Point?
When cricket and baseball meet
When Everything Stinks
When the ears and eyes differ
When the world goes awry
When things are most grim
When we are so loved
When we want people to be like us – only in the Gospel
When will they learn?!
When you meet Jesus you realise that all other gods and religion are bankrupt!
Where are you standing?
Where do we begin?
Where is God in all this?
Where is our security and confidence?
Where is the emphasis in ‘my Gift’?
where’s the good news?
While we wait
Who are you and who says so?
Who is Jesus? … Really? …
Who said? Who says?
Whom to believe?
Why do we do what we do?
Why does it have to be so violent?
Will the real Christmas please stand up?
With Hope
Witnessing in the Waiting Time
Words and Death
Working life out – but we’re not alone in the dark
Working Out Home
year and lifetime after Pentecost
You can’t be serious?!
You can’t go past the Word
You – yes you! – are loved!
your servant is listening!’
‘Speak
‘Today you will be with me in Paradise’ – the best ending of all
“... once you’ve stopped screaming”
“Um this isn’t what I signed up for!”
December 25, 2014
Christmas Day
Chaplain Sean Ballard
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