Spirited Word
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By God's Word proclaimed, the Holy Spirit works faith in God's grace in Jesus, when and where he pleases. Sermons by Pastor Adrian Kitson, Lutheran Church of Australia.St Petri Lutheran ChurchNuriootpa, Barossa Valley, South Australia.
Spirited Word
6d ago
From Martin Luther...
“….it comes to pass when you hear that Jesus Christ, God’s Son, has by his most holy touch consecrated and hallowed all sufferings, even death itself, has blessed the curse, and has glorified shame and enriched poverty so that death is now a door to life, the curse a fount of blessing, and shame the mother of glory. Suffering has been touched and bathed by Christ’s pure and holy flesh and blood and thus have become holy, harmless, and wholesome, blessed, and full of joy for you. There is nothing, not even death, that his passion cannot sweeten. (Luther, LW, Vol. 42 ..read more
Spirited Word
3w ago
Ten young women: five with 'oil', five out of 'oil': five accepted five dismissed. What is the oil!?
Is Jesus is saying that the oil is not our love or faith or patience or anything we can do or manufacture or achieve ourselves? What if instead, the ‘oil’ is a gift; gift to be received that makes us ready, not work to be done that hopefully makes us ready? Then this parable speaks of pure wonderful grace and fires our hearts in thankful faith and solid hope for what is to come because it is not based on me – but founded on Jesus ..read more
Spirited Word
3w ago
There is a song for every occasion. There is s spiritual song for every step of this spiritual journey with Jesus. The Psalms are those songs and this one is a 'banger ..read more
Spirited Word
3w ago
What does God do with all of our bad news in the world and in ourselves? Could there be good news in a sad song sung in such bad times? if Jesus is truly both the Suffering One and the Sovereign One, his sad song for the city might just be good news for you.  ..read more
Spirited Word
3w ago
Lent might not be your thing. but it has been and still is a good thing for lots of people. Maybe it can be something really good for you ..read more
Spirited Word
3w ago
We hear the very last words of David pin-pointing THE thing that makes us, gives us life and assures us of our future beyond the grave. it is not David's words or ours, but God's ..read more
Spirited Word
4M ago
We come to the end of this little journey in this little letter of First John.
We have heard of the broad sweep of what God has done for the word he loves in the Son he gave for the life he calls us to live. It is very grand in scale and yet practical in the living of it. Faith, love and obedience to what the Apostles reveal of God from what they saw and heard and touched in Jesus of Nazareth is the life to which John calls us.
Today we hear this rather abrupt and very direct little directive in the last sentence of this letter.
21 Dear children, keep yourselves f ..read more
Spirited Word
4M ago
John has said some world-changing and people-changing things about God future now at work in our present drawing us on to that great day when we shall finally see Jesus as he fully is and find ourselves more like him than we currently know.
To really try and grab your full attention and bring home all of the truth about who Jesus is and what he is doing in this anti-messiah world, this anti-messiah human heart we all share and against the fallen Anti-Messiah himself, John now stages a courtroom scene and calls upon three witnesses to testify to all that he has been proclaiming.
The three ..read more
Spirited Word
4M ago
We are still working our way through the words of the Apostle john in his little letter of love to his people under pressure.
Today we get o what many might see as the core message John is wanting to encourage his people with as they live their lives in this new beginning for God’s creation which began the day that death died under the resurrection life of Jesus the Messiah.
Our home text for the year has been
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.
This text is right here today, in its full context. We might need to pause to have a good listen to it because I s ..read more
Spirited Word
4M ago
We keep on nudging forward in this little letter of the Apostle John to his local church communities. As we do, we also welcome 14 people into membership in our church. Praise the Lord for new people!
John is doing all he can to give us confidence to trust that in all circumstances the Spirit is at work transforming us into the likeness of the Son whom we will one day finally see as he is and truly know ourselves as he knows and loves us.
Today John calls back a wonderful Old Testament account of the prophet Elisha to encourage to trust that whatever happens around us that threatens or w ..read more