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Christmas Eve: We are a people of the Incarnation by Ian Mobsby

Church, Culture, Mission, Podcast, Politics, Spirituality, Theology
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In this podcast Ian Mobsby explores lectionary texts for Christmas Eve to explore the significance of Jesus coming as a human being, as an incarnate God man.  The texts speak to us of justice, and the call of Jesus as the God-with-us means that God is serious about our humanity, and also about our salvation.  Further, we are called to participate in this incarnational mission of God, of joining in with a God concerned about restoration, transformation and love.

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Christmas 2: Jesus – the paradoxical wild hope for humanity

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In this podcast on the second Sunday of Christmas 2015/16 Ian Mobsby draws on the Gospel of Johnj Chaoter 1 to explore the theme of a Jesus being the Word, the exposed identity of God who in paradox is human and God.  This is the wild hope of Christianity for all humanity. For mote information on the St Luke’s community and resources see www.stlukespeckham.co.uk.

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Christmas One: A Christianity that costs and where often you don’t fit in

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In this podcast on the first Sunday of Christmas 2015/16 Ian Mobsby draws on the Gospel of Luke 2:41-52 and Acts 7.51-60 to explore the theme of a Christianity that costs. In the Acts reading Ian explores the death of Stephen, the first Christian to die for their faith, and also the Luke reading of a young 12 year old Jesus listening and engaging with the Torah in the temple in Jerusalem.  Both these texts suggest that much of the Christian life is not easy, often where we do not fit in with contemporary society.  For mote information on the St Luke’s community and resources see www.stlukespeckham.co.uk.

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Christmas Day: Emmanuel is not the ‘God for them’ but the ‘God with us’

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In this podcast on Christmas Day at St Luke’s Church Peckham Ian Mobsby explores the meaning of ‘Emmanuel’ as ‘God with us’.  Too often in Christianity the story of the birth of Jesus is heard as the story of the God ‘for them’.  This homily explores the generous and scandalous love of God, that seeks to come as a fragile human being for hope for all people.  The paradox of a man coming from God who was truly God and truly human.

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