Jesus came into the world to fill us with new life, and encourage us, and show us how to grow, so if we remain focussed on the light, letting it shine into our areas of darkness, then darkness will never have the last word.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Jeremiah (Page 2)
The glory of God is most fully revealed in Jesus’s willingness to suffer death at the hands of the law.
Thanks be to God, we are in safe hands. God who has been the author, will also be the finisher of our faith.
Those who trust God and remain flexible enough to change and grow will have nothing to fear from God’s strong hands.
God speaks prophetically through the Church and through some individuals, and the prophetic task is inseparable from humility, constructiveness, graciousness, love, patience and generosity.
We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.
The sacred is all around us and within us, but don’t make the mistake of trying to regulate it.
There is a fundamental culture clash between those who put their trust in God and those who pursue wealth, comfort and celebrity.
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
The relationship between God’s work and our work in salvation is not a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery to be lived in prayer and faithful discipleship.
Jesus acted out the parables that he was telling in his encounters with people, expressing the nature of God who seeks after us and rejoices in our being found and restored. God invites us to be people like that.
God is deeply hurt and offended by our rejection of God in favour of things that are worthless, but Jesus has made possible both our forgiveness and our reconciliation.
When the world falls apart, God recognises the pain, the despair, and the anger, and gifts us with faith, with an assurance that God’s power of love will yet prevail, that God will accomplish the justice and the peace we long for.
Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.