Christ’s desire to extend hospitality to us, to welcome us at his table, is so great that he will give even his own life to bring us into the experience of his love. This is the pattern for our call to hospitality too.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Romans (Page 3)
You might have been written off as a dead loss (even by yourself), but only respond to the call of Christ, and you will live!
God’s merciful and all-inclusive love is steadfast, not arbitrary, and so fills us with hope in the coming Christ.
The Catechumenate, and the annual Lenten journey, are about writing the Word of God into our hearts so that it can protect us from evil and bear fruits of righteousness.
The God who we encounter in such different ways is, nevertheless, the one God, and we are called to share in the life of this one God.
The death of Christ strips us bare, but in his resurrection we are clothed in Christ and become participants in his resurrection life.
The power of sin over us will not be broken by trying harder, but by pursuing Christ and Christ alone.
When hopes have been extinguished and all is despair, God comes back.
Our struggles against evil, temptation and suffering are all framed by the security of God’s unshakable love and resolve to bring us safely to fullness of life.
The coming Christ will continually confound our expectations, no matter how well informed or righteous they may be.
The message of Pentecost is the message of Pascha – Christ is risen and, in him, we are liberated from our captivity to the spirits of death, fear, despair, and division, and freed to dance to the Holy Spirit’s tune.
What God has promised, God will make good on, no matter what the apparent obstacles, and our job is simply to set about cooperating with the promise-maker rather than with the obstacles.
God is always acting, but often in surprising and paradoxical ways. The ways of God often reverse human expectations.
There is no such thing as a ritual-free space, and performed well or performed badly, rituals change things, change people’s lives.
Darkness cannot conceal anything from God, but God who confronts us with truth and justice, and invites us to choose life and promises to help and bless us in that choice.
Those who insist that faith must satisfy their every ideology may miss out, while those who simply yoke themselves to Jesus will find the freedom and peace for which they yearn.
If Abraham is our common father in faith, and like him we are justified and made whole by our faith in God’s mercy, then Christians, Jews and Muslims might find unity in sharing, humbly, in the wonder of that gift together.
Hope is a courageous and active stance towards life which is nourished in those who attend to the voice of God in Scripture.
You can’t define or dictate how people will experience God, even within the service of worship.
Christian progressives must not despise those who feel insecure about change, and Christian conservatives must not despise those who take new ways.