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Cameron Horsburgh
Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
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Holy Spirit, Fill Us
Contributed on Mar 10, 2003
A sermon for the 2003 World Day of Prayer. The reason the Holy Spirit doesn’t seem to be moving on us at the moment may be that he has to renew us before he can fill us.
****Introduction**** It is appropriate that the theme for this year’s World Day of Prayer is, in fact, a prayer. It is a prayer that the Church has been praying since Jesus went home to Heaven. It is a prayer that God has been pleased to answer since that first Pentecost. However, it is a ...read more
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Turning On Your Bulldust Filters
Contributed on Mar 10, 2003
The smartest of us sometimes forget to question things we hear when they come from a source of apparent authority. It is the duty of all people to turn on our bulldust filters, especially when we are listening to our Christian leaders.
Introduction Time for a quiz! 1. The cells which make up the antlers of a moose are the fastest growing animal cells in nature. (True) 2. The planet closest to the sun is Mercury (True 3. Pi to three decimal places is 3.142 (True. Not 3.141—this is a rounding error) 4. The second General ...read more
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War! What Is It Good For?
Contributed on Feb 12, 2003
War is going to happen whether we like it or not. Regardless of our position on war politically and theologically, we are all called to turn to God and to love our enemies.
The major thing in the news over the last few weeks has been all this business over Saddam Hussein and the allegations that he is stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. Every day another part of the drama is played out—George Bush or Colin Powell or Hans Blix or any one of a number of world ...read more
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War Is Over
Contributed on Dec 7, 2002
The story of the angels isn’t so much about a heavenly sing-song than God announcing the end to the war between himself and the human race.
I’m sure we’re all fairly familiar with this scene—a group of shepherds are in the field quietly minding their own businesses when an angel appears to them. *The Angels* We don’t know the name of this angel. However, the only angel to be named in the gospels in connection with the birth of ...read more
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The Woman Caught In Adultery: And Us, Her Friends
Contributed on Nov 11, 2002
We all know the woman caught in adultery, or someone like her. That’s fine, until we realise that we too stand in her place.
Introduction [Start to read the story, stop after the scene is set and the woman has been brought before Jesus.] [I put a picture of a woman on the overhead projector, and I refer to it extensively throughout.] Let’s have a look at this woman [OHP]. What do we know about her? Very little! ...read more
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The Ten Commandments
Contributed on Nov 11, 2002
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The 10 Commandments
Contributed on Oct 20, 2002
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Filled Up Anew
Contributed on Mar 10, 2003
FILLED UP ANEW Imagine a sponge that has been used to wash the dishes. It’s all full of dirt and food and old water. It needs to be filled with clean water! But how can you do that? Easy. You wring it out, rinse it off, and wring it out again. Only when you have done this can you fill it with ...read more
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I Recently Heard About A Doctor Who Seemed To ...
Contributed on Feb 1, 2002
I recently heard about a doctor who seemed to have had a huge amount of success as a GP. Whilst he only had a small number of patients on his books, they all stayed in remarkable health. A journalist heard about this doctor, and decided to pay him a visit. Now this journalist, a man by the name of ...read more