Jesus Christ Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/jesus-christ/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 05:00:12 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://journeyonline.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-Journey-Logo-With-UCA-logo_Site-identity_Artboard-2_Artboard-2-copy-32x32.png Jesus Christ Archives - JourneyOnline https://journeyonline.com.au/tag/jesus-christ/ 32 32 Friday’s religion wrap https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-25-may-2018/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-25-may-2018/#respond Fri, 25 May 2018 01:05:03 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=24513 The Journey team selects stories that got us talking this week. “Miraculous” praise for escape from blaze The Express reports on a blaze in a Serbian church that left everything destroyed except the faces of Jesus Christ, John the Baptist and Saint Peter on icons. While some were impressed by the apparent miracle there may be a more ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-25-may-2018/feed/ 0 Moderator’s Musing – 15 May https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/moderators-musing-15-may-2018/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/moderators-musing-15-may-2018/#respond Tue, 15 May 2018 06:19:27 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=24412 This Friday, at Karana Downs Uniting Church, the Synod Ecumenical Relations committee is hosting a retreat on the theme, “Being Uniting in a polarising world” (10 am–4 pm; you’re welcome!). We thought it a fitting reflection in the world-wide Week of Prayer for Christian Unity that culminates in Pentecost this coming Sunday. Bringing a unifying ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/moderators-musing-15-may-2018/feed/ 0 Friday’s religion wrap https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-11-may/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-11-may/#respond Fri, 11 May 2018 01:32:57 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=24380 The Journey team selects stories that got us talking this week.     Less than Marvel-lous preaching causes movie chaos The Christian Post interviews the pastor who caused a stir at an Avengers movie screening by loudly preaching during the end credits and subsequently causing chaos when people thought he might be a gunman. Michael Webber claims he often ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-11-may/feed/ 0 Journey’s last-minute Christmas gift guide https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/journeys-last-minute-christmas-gift-guide/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/journeys-last-minute-christmas-gift-guide/#respond Thu, 14 Dec 2017 01:31:10 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=23577 With Christmas less than two weeks away, news reports suggest Christmas spending is at its weakest in four years as shoppers struggle to find the must-have presents to put under the tree. Some blame economic factors such as rising utility costs and slow income growth, others cite the lack of new toys and trinkets in ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/journeys-last-minute-christmas-gift-guide/feed/ 0 Apocalpyse now? The dangerous truth behind the birth of Christ https://journeyonline.com.au/features/have-yourself-an-apocalyptic-christmas/ https://journeyonline.com.au/features/have-yourself-an-apocalyptic-christmas/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2017 05:22:46 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=23521 While Christmas is associated with family, festivities and the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, Trinity College Queensland’s New Testament lecturer Dr John Frederick explores how we can also use the Christmas story of Jesus’ birth to reflect on the “apocalyptic” in the traditional sense of the word—the revelation of that which was previously ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/features/have-yourself-an-apocalyptic-christmas/feed/ 0 The birth that changes everything https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/birth-changes-everything/ https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/birth-changes-everything/#respond Tue, 05 Dec 2017 04:53:01 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=23502 A couple of days after the birth of our first child, Joan and I were travelling with him from the hospital back to Toogoolawah. We had to stop at a chemist for something, and the realisation came to me (belatedly, some may say) that life would never be the same. I was particularly immersed in ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/opinion/birth-changes-everything/feed/ 0 Releasing the church for change https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/releasing-church-change/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/releasing-church-change/#respond Wed, 29 Nov 2017 23:30:13 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=23494 Journey asked three young Uniting Church members for their radical game-changing idea to create a vibrant contemporary Christian community. Here’s what they said.  Joshua Harbort My name is Joshua Harbort, I attend Rosewood Uniting Church and I am a PhD student at the University of Queensland in the field of biophysics. Besides my interests in ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/releasing-church-change/feed/ 0 Book review: The Cross https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/book-review-cross/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/book-review-cross/#respond Mon, 20 Nov 2017 04:28:48 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=23474 It is arguably the most famous item in Christian iconography but Robin Jensen’s book The Cross attempts to uncover the history behind the crucifix and the controversy behind the symbolism. Nick Mattiske reviews. We associate the cross with Christianity, so it is surprising to note, as Robin Jensen does in this elegantly produced book, that ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/book-review-cross/feed/ 0 Friday’s religion wrap https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-17-november/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-17-november/#respond Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:20:42 +0000 https://journeyonline.com.au/?p=23470 The Journey team selects stories that got us talking this week.   If the numbers go down a new nickname for town? The Advertiser crunches the numbers of religious Census data and suggests that Adelaide’s reputation as the “city of churches” may need to be reconsidered given traditional religions are declining in popularity in South Australia. While mainstream ...

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]]> https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/fridays-religion-wrap-17-november/feed/ 0 Book review: The Beauty and the Horror https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/book-review-beauty-horror/ https://journeyonline.com.au/scoop/book-review-beauty-horror/#respond Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:44:03 +0000 http://journeyonline.com.au/?p=22493 Negotiating a belief in a powerful, loving God with the existence of evil in the world can often be a thorny task but in Richard Harries’ latest book The Beauty and the Horror, the author tries to address faith and theodicy. Nick Mattiske reviews. If you are going to write an apologia for the existence ...

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