- Awkward dinners
- A Sabbath meal
- A hard word for the dinner guests
- Healing on the Sabbath (vv. 1-5)
- Places of honour (vv. 7-11)
- Inviting the poor (vv. 12-14)
- Missing the banquet (vv. 15-24)
- Having Jesus to dinner?
To see the gospel bear fruit in the Inner West and the World as we commit, grow, engage and send.
Sermons by Geoff Harper
- Outsiders and insiders
- Jesus returns to Galilee (vv. 14-15)
- Jesus makes a surprising claim (vv. 16-22)
- Jesus forces a decision (vv. 23-30)
- An invitation to consider Jesus
- The right vision
- The Year of Jubilee: A social manifesto? (v10)
- Timing is everything (v8-9)
- Sabbath (v8)
- The Day of Atonement (v9)
- Catching the vision
- Trust and Obey?
- Remembering God’s Commands (25:55b-26:2)
- Obedience brings blessing (v3-12)
- Disobedience brings discipline (v14-39)
- Context is key (v13)
- OT
- NT
- Obedience, blessing and us?
- Times and Seasons
- Israel’s appointed times
- YHWH’s appointed times
- The reason for the season
- AGM’s, calendars, and corporate responsibility
Leviticus 19:18b ‘but love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.’
- The rise of victimhood culture
- Who is my neighbour?
- Rebuking neighbours as an act of love
- The shape of rebuke
- Interpersonal
- Directed
- Performed
- Specific
- Corrective
- Rebuking neighbours for the sake of holiness
- Talking about sex
- Obey my laws and live (v1-5)
- Avoid sexual transgression (v6-23)
- Close relatives
- Other sexual miscondct
- Universal applicability (v24-30)
- Acknowledge complicity
- Heed the warning
- Know forgiveness
- Nuclear Danger
- Performing the Day of Atonement
- Nadab and Abihu
- Words in sevens
- The scapegoat
- Understanding the Day of Atonement
- Purification not forgiveness
- Creation parallels
- Anticipation
- Fulfilling the Day of Atonement
- Inner West foodies
- To eat or not to eat (v 1-23)
- Land swarmers and death (v24-40)
- Become holy, not defiled (v41-47)
- Echoes of Eden
- Time for a new diet?