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The Lords Prayer | What to pray for
Revd Dion J. Blundell | 28th July 2013
The Lord’s prayer is a challenge to focus on God’s Kingdom.
It challenges us to look at our own lives and prayers and what our prayers focus on. Do they focus on what God calls us to?
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The theme that pervades through today’s readings is call. The emphasis that I hear is not only are we called, but we are all called, we are all called into the ministry of our Lord Jesus. There is no dogging this, and saying it’s the job of the clergy. We are all called. We are called sometimes to different harvest fields, or maybe a different area of the field, but we are all called. We have to decide who is our Lord. And we show who is in control of our life, or who is our Lord be who we respond to.
Stepping up to God’s Call 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14 – Galatians 5:1, 13-25 – Luke 9:51-62 For me the theme that comes out of today’s readings is Stepping up to God’s Call in your life. For Elisha, that meant taking over the call of Elijah, or taking the mantle of Elijah; mantle was another name Read more about Stepping up to God’s Call – 2013-06-30 – Sermon[…]
The theme that runs through our readings today is discipline. We learn that we must discipline our minds. Now that is not the “tell-off” discipline, but rather the ordering, or structuring of our minds. We must discipline them. And it is not a draconian discipline, where we only allow our minds to experience certain things, but rather it is the discipline of controlling what we are exposed to, and making sure that our minds get a balanced diet. We don’t just want to feed our mind on junk food, rather our minds require a balance of input.
Standing strong Galatians 2 This week we carry on with chapter 2 of Paul’s letter to the Galatians. The theme is standing strong. To stand strong, to stand tall you need to know what your calling is. Others will try and tell you at times what it is, or what it is not, but only Read more about Standing Strong – 2013-06-16 – Sermon on Galatians 2[…]
Galatians Week 1 – an introduction You might have noticed two things over the years. Firstly that the lectionary, or our cycle of readings sometimes goes completely through a new-testament letter. The second thing, is that I almost always concentrate on the gospel, and not the new testament letterz. Well, for the next few weeks Read more about Galatians introduction – 2013-06-02 – Sermon on Galatians 1[…]
Trinity Sunday Anniversary Some of you will remember that today marks my 7th Year here. Trinity Sunday in 2006 was my first Sunday with you. I was thinking back over past sermons, and thought today I’ll say something I wouldn’t normally, and that is something of what the trinity is not. Talking about what something Read more about Trinity Sunday – 2013-05-26 – Sermon[…]
Pentecostals Acts 2 Labelling < – label example – > We like to label things. Denomination What denomination did you tick on your census? Pentecostal Today though, regardless of what you might have ticked, no matter what you preference might be, we are all Pentecostal’s. We are people who believe in and emphasise the work Read more about Pentecost – 2013-05-19 – Allowing God to work in your life[…]
Mother’s day I’d like you to spend a moment talking to your neighbour mum’s; what do you think is a mum’s most important role? Or what was your mum’s most important role? Think for a moment what this role was once you were no-longer completely dependent on your mum, so imagine yourself at age 18 Read more about Mother’s day – 2013-05-12 – Sermon[…]