Church leaders will tap into the mood of anxiety over bushfires and the changing climate in their Christmas messages, while the Catholic Church has linked the NSW abortion laws and voluntary euthanasia debate to King Herod's 'slaughter of the innocents'
Church leaders will tap into the mood of anxiety over bushfires and the changing climate in their Christmas messages, while the Catholic Church has linked the NSW abortion laws and debate over voluntary euthanasia to King Herod's "slaughter of the innocents".
"There is nothing more tragic and heart-rending than learning that in the recent bushfires some people were isolated and had to face the onslaught of fire all alone," said Archbishop Davies, who will lead the Christmas Day service at St Andrew's Cathedral. At Prime Minister Scott Morrison's pentecostal Horizon church in Sutherland Shire, senior pastor Brad Bonhomme will bring the Christmas message back to people's personal lives.
Reverend Simon Hansford, the moderator for the Uniting Church Synod of NSW and ACT, said the message of Christmas was that God was willing to "risk" Himself by being born to an unmarried mother in a world of strife. "People, today, rely on false supports: on their knowledge, their strengths, their power and on their wealth," Archbishop Makariossaid.
"Isaiah prophesied 'and a little child shall lead them', and that has certainly been the case this year," Father Bower said.
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