Recently retired Rev Darrell Mc Kerlie (Victoria) brings the wonderful story behind his time visiting the Curtin Immigration Detention Centre from 2010-2014 while he was pastoring in Broome (WA).
Sermons on Justice
We can help create a more just world by being clear about our mission and taking opportunities to fulfill it. Biblical Passage – Matthew 5:13–16 (NLT) 13 “You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out…
Where does the problem lie? Poverty and disadvantage are created and maintained by social, political and economic systems that favour the interest of the powerful over the weak. God called Israel as His covenant people toe be people of justice, with laws and guidelines that would allow them to be a light to the nations…
The Justice of Jesus is the second in a four part series compiled by Scott Higgins and Baptist Care Big Idea: Jesus fulfilled the prophetic hope that God would set the world to right. We see this in his ministry as he liberated people from things that oppressed and bound them (sin, Satan, poverty, disease,…
The World We Want to See – this is a series compiled by Scott Higgins alongside Baptist Care relating particularly to justice. Some of the additional resources I have utilised are from the writings of Miroslav Volf; Tim Keller; Nicholas Wolterstorff; and Jurgen Moltmann. Text: Isaiah 58:1–14 (NLT) ople, the Lord has told you what is…
Chapter 5 the issue confronting Nehemiah was internal conflict relating to injustice. Nehemiah is leading the people in the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem and there’s been an increasing problem from the outside as the threat from surrounding nations intensifies. And this opposition intensifies until the point where: Nehemiah 4:17a-18a NLT The labourers carried…
PONG VISION Since 2011 the Pong has been a dynamic fundraising and advocacy movement combating human trafficking and exploitation of young people in South East Asia. Communities across Australia (and in 2018 the USA), host table tennis events between 3 and 24 hours in length each October. Participants sign up to play at their venue…
Women in the Church: so the issue of women in the church is not a minor or marginal one. So what I’m inviting us as a church into is the opportunity to discern how we as a local church in the 21st century can best live out the gospel in our day to the glory…
James 1:19f The importance of living out our faith and doing things that reflect the heart of God. James 1:19-27 (ESV) 19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore…