St Stephen's Anglican Church, Bellevue Hill

Welcome to St Stephen's!

We are a Bible-believing Anglican church in Bellevue Hill,
in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs.

We meet on Sundays at 9.30 am and 5.00 pm
to worship Jesus Christ as Lord.

Holy Communion is generally held on the third and fifth
Sundays of the month (morning service),
and on the fourth Sunday of the month (evening service).

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ststephensbhill@gmail.com

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Riding on the Clouds snippet
Blog by Rev Richard Lane - Read more here

Wisdom in 2 Samuel 13

JUNE 9, 2022

I find that 2 Samuel 13 raises quite a few interpretation questions for me as I read it. In some ways the broad themes are very clear but there are all these small details and words and phrases which connect with other passages which convey other themes. As one examines these it draws one to reconsider what the real theme and message of the chapter is.

For example, it is very clear that the chapter details a shocking wrongdoing, the rape of Tamar by Amnon, and then the consequent judgement which follows when he is killed by Absalom’s men.

Theme: evil is judged. The wages of sin is death.

But then one examines the chapter more closely and there are all these details in the way the story is told. There is the theme of ‘wisdom’ which runs through the passage.

Blog continued here

Riding on the Clouds

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