As we head with Jesus towards the cross, carrying the pain and injustice of the world, God does not hide his face from us but hears our cries for justice.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Psalms
When our world and our hearts feel dry, cut off, and despondent, there is hope and life to be found in God’s promises.
As important as our responses and decisions are, before we know, we are known. Before we understand, we are understood. Before we say ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’ is said to us.
In the face of global suffering, we continue to give praise for the power that is working on the side of love, and we unite our power with God’s power until we see God’s will being done.
God created the earth and gave it to us, but mistreated, it rebels. Jesus, rising form the earth, redeems the earth, so that if can again be our true home.
Whatever the future may hold, in rough places AND in smooth, in dark valleys and on sunlit hillsides, the Lord is our shepherd, and will lead us finally to green pastures and still waters.
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
Lent calls us to faithfulness to God and we need to assess the direction of our journey, our call to ministry and also to meet our own demons.
Love names, creation, joyful service and gifts for the common good can be signs of the nature and culture of God.
What is the legacy you will leave? Live into life and love the way you want it to be, because whatever you choose will live on after you.
In the face of tragedy, we naturally cry out “Why?” Jesus meets us in the suffering and helps us find the path of life.
Our longing for God is met in the Holy Spirit who opens heaven to us and makes all things new.
As God’s people, we celebrate life in the face of death, because we know that the victory of life has been secured.
Jesus gives us an abundance of all that we need, and when we learn to trust that, we are set free from rivalry and possessiveness and enabled to share generously.
God’s self-giving is to all of humanity, all of the time, and we are called to lift our eyes beyond our immediate concerns and stand in solidarity with the faithful who have gone before us.
Honestly owning the rage that sometimes consumes us is an important part of maintaining our resistance to all that stands in the way of a Jesus-shaped life.
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.
In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.
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.
A sermon on Psalm 23