#demonising

ENCOUNTERS / GO BACK AND TELL ‘The one they sought to shackle is sat at Jesus’ feet; fully clothed, in his right mind, and at peace. Jesus exposes their inhumanity and their own ability to echo chaos.’

Here’s my longer sermon notes from this afternoon’s Metro Christian Centre service (dated 2nd October 2022), continuing our new series ENCOUNTERS. You can also catch up with this via MCC’s YouTube channel (just give us time to get the video uploaded 😉) We are continuing our ENCOUNTERS series, looking at a handful of the gospel accounts where people have these stunning interactions with…

The demonizing of Muslims as terrorists goes back a long way. There's the 1959 epic The Northwest Frontier in which Herbert Lom plays a Muslim terrorist.

Given the so-called "Partition" of India by means of the popularly perceived creation of Pakistan, Muslims dissected a unitary state that had seemingly existed forever.

Stop mocking those who stand for human rights. Demonising them endangers every citizen

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The story was like a credulity stretching C grade Hindi film. Police were transporting arrested gangster Vikas Dubey in an SUV to Kanpur. The SUV skidded and overturned. Unhurt, a tubby Dubey easily slipped out of the upside down car, smoothly grabbed a pistol from the cops (no, he wasn’t handcuffed), shot at the police, was fired at in retaliation and the gunfight resulted in Dubey’s…

“Demonisation doesn’t rid this man of his demons.” (Rough notes on Luke 8:26-39)

Due to some health issues, I was unable to prepare throughly or speak this Sunday on the lectionary text from Luke 8; the famous story of a possessed man who identifies as, ‘Legion.’

Like most of the Gospel stories, it’s a dense account which has a lot going on. But what follows are my very rough notes of what I would have shared from this passage.

I repeat; they are rough notes. So I…