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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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3 August, 2014
While faith is a gift, blessings come to those who are prepared to wrestle with their faith.
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20 July, 2014
Preacher: Alison Sampson
There is nothing we can do to earn God’s presence or God’s blessing or God’s love, but when we let down our defences, when we give up striving, when we are vulnerable, then who knows what might happen?
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22 June, 2014
Jesus calls us to give up the illusion that we own God’s blessing, invite others in, and be despised for doing so, giving up our privileges to build a world that all can share.
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1 June, 2014
We are to witness to this incredible, unbelievable, but very real truth: that in God’s reality, love crosses every divide, even the chasm of death.
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18 May, 2014
We are a ragtag bunch, but in witnessing to God’s mercy and love, we become the people of God together.
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30 March, 2014
God’s refining work is done not through judgement and punishment, but through the transforming power of love.
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9 March, 2014
Once we recognise that all women, like all men, are made in the image of God, we catch a glimpse of God’s original vision for us, for the day when all people experience God’s radical and abundant love, and the pouring out of justice demanded by that love.
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24 December, 2013
The Christ child is the light who enlightens the world and as his love takes root in our hearts and lives, it causes us to light up the darkness.
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15 July, 2012
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Abundance, Commitment, Fullness of Life, Generosity, Gratitude, Worship
Scripture: 1 & 2 Samuel, Ephesians
God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.
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11 March, 2012
The commandments cannot be imposed, but are what result when people have learned to love and their desires have merged with God’s.
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3 July, 2011
Preacher: Alison Sampson
Topic: Faithfulness, Formation, Spiritual Disciplines
Staying true to the disciplines of ordinary faithfulness is part of our calling as we follow the way of Jesus Christ; and engaging in them eases our burdens considerably.
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16 August, 2009
God blesses us with much more than we need, but instead of throwing away the excess, we are to take what we don’t need and do something with it.
