All in one spot, sermons given this year 2024

One of my joys is the presentation of the Scriptures to people and their reception of the message. It happens on Zoom or in person. It can happen incidentally or when studying together regularly for years. This year, 2024, I have been privileged to share the message and the meanings of the Word of God with Jews and non-Jews, in Sydney and the US and well beyond. 

Here is one list to make your research easier the sermons I gave as one-off talks, usually when a leader at a conference or the pastor of a church invited me to address a topic or to unpack a Bible section particularly. 

11 new Sermons I wrote and delivered in 2024 (some on video also) You may have time over the holidays, and you may want to read and/or watch/ listen to some of these new sermons.

 

1)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../light-of-world... Light of the World. Given on 15 December in Sydney. The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCU-j51FBIw&t=1574s

 

2)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../the-bibles... The Bible’s mistake and the Great Divide. Given on 8 December in Sydney. The video is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/ZowBZ4XgGT4...

 

3)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../lessons-in... What is Discipleship? Given on 25 November in Sydney. The video is here: https://youtu.be/lqBVUhS6UZ0?si=pQRXcxcnrUNv3k5u&t=1

 

4)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../what-is-great.... What is the Great Story? Given in November in Kansas City. (No video)

 

5)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../a-biblical.... A Biblical Theology of Mission. Given in November in Kansas City. The video is here:  https://www.youtube.com/live/BzOA3g5d_HM... 

 

6)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../a-new-day-message.... A new day. Given in November in Dallas, Texas. (Video available for purchase from Aglow.org)

 

7)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../the-problem-is.html What is the problem? Given in August in Knoxville, Tennessee. Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/dF5zvywRr3M...

 

8)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../a-benefits... A study in the Psalms. Given in Houston, Texas in August. Video is here: https://www.youtube.com/live/gjlPJebuM88... 

 

9)        https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../a-time-to-mourn... A time to mourn. Given in August in Houston, Texas.  The video is here: https://congregationbethmessiah.subspla.sh/76zchr2 

 

10)  https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../as-unto-lord... As unto the Lord... a sermon on conscience given in Sydney in April. Reading starts the video. Romans 14:1-5:13. (video starts at 5 min 35) Video is here: https://youtu.be/UI0R0VIoYk0?si=7TCGn05tA7N9b5Zz&t=315 

 

11)  https://bob-mendelsohn.blogspot.com/.../palm-sunday-and... Where is real hope? Given in Sydney in March. Video is here: https://youtu.be/s2yG6PLqmuk

 

New year, new prime minister

The news media source, Haaretz published this report on Malcolm Turnbull, the newly-sworn-in 26th prime minister of Australia. Turnbull . They cite the Australian Jewish News report from a few years ago which indicated that Turnbull's “mother always used to say that her mother’s family was Jewish.” He did grow up in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, the hotbed of Jewish life in town, and went to prestigious schools before becoming a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He is a self-made multi-millionaire, so some would say he has all the right stuff.

And how fitting that he became prime minister on Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the Jewish new year. We at Jews for Jesus add our best wishes to him as he tries to govern our great country and lead us through the troubles in Syria/Turkey/Hungary, in Bendigo with mosque building, on the footy pitch as September finals are the mainstay of the Back Page just now, and his own party experiences the new boon in his taking over. It's never easy to start over, and especially when the train has already left the station.

So God help our Prime Minister to lead well and to look after his own household and all of ours.