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Preacher: Alison Sampson
Alison Sampson
Alison Sampson is an ordained Baptist pastor, a preacher, a writer, a dreamer, and a frequent maker of soup. After many years as a member and then a pastor of our church, then known as South Yarra Community Baptist Church, in 2016 she moved to Warrnambool to set up and pastor Sanctuary Baptist Church. There, queer, neurodivergent and questioning folk found a home and assumptions about church were exploded. After returning to Melbourne in 2024, she became part of the ministry team at Manningham Uniting Church. Alison is passionate about communicating with diverse people, facilitating encounters with the Spirit through Word, ritual, conversation and prayer, encouraging others in their ministry, and sanctifying every area of life.
Sermons by Alison Sampson
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12 April, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Abundance, Communion, Generosity, Grace, Hospitality, Service, Virtues
Scripture: 1 2 & 3 John, Acts
With every step we take towards God’s economy, we will become more powerful in our witness to God’s saving action and love for the world, and be filled ever more deeply with God’s good grace.
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8 March, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
When we approach God’s way of life and the Sabbath not as punishment, but as gift, the experience becomes a chance to rest from work and from striving; and to allow space for God through contemplation and re-creation and play.
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22 February, 2015
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Discipleship, Evil, Faithfulness, Identity, Lent, Temptation, Virtues
Scripture: Mark
Lent is a time to walk knowingly into the wilderness, to face the Accuser and the wild beasts that emerge when we live out our identity as God’s children.
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8 February, 2015
Jesus urges us to take stock, to recognise the sicknesses which warp us and the demons which colonise our hearts and our minds, to renounce them so that we become free to minister to one another, and to proclaim the good news in our words and our lives.
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28 December, 2014
To grow up well, children need to be anchored to a broad community with shared values, which nevertheless allows for individual differences.
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24 December, 2014
We are welcoming a baby born into occupied territories to a fiercely holy young woman, and we are recognising in that baby the hope of liberation.
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7 December, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Apocalypse, Hope, Salvation
Scripture: 1 & 2 Peter, Isaiah, Mark, Psalms
Advent is preparing us for the coming of the Lord, that already and not-yet event for which people have lived and worked and prayed for millennia.
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16 November, 2014
You cannot serve two masters; for a slave will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.
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26 October, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Culture, Faithfulness, Hope, Vocation
Scripture: Deuteronomy, Matthew
We are invited to work towards visions of God’s reign, knowing we will never be entirely successful, but sustained by imagining the possibilities.
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28 September, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Gratitude, Hospitality, Mission, Service
Scripture: Matthew, Philippians
We pray for our neighbours to be blessed, but could we actually be being called to give a blessing?
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14 September, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
What would happen if violence were met with bread, with blankets, with hospitals, with forgiveness of debts?
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24 August, 2014
Whether we have been the oppressor or the oppressed or both, we all have a role in God’s work against violence and exploitation; we can all participate in God’s passion for justice.