God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Commitment
On our own we are powerless to deal with many of the things that confront us, but when we recognise that and make ourselves available for whatever God wants to do, all kinds of scary things may actually be possible.
Taking up your cross is about a willingness to pay the price of following Jesus and living out your baptism. It is not a generalised stoicism.
Jesus offers life in all its fullness, but many would rather settle for the odd snack rather than the full banquet.
When things are desperate, God calls us only to be faithful and committed, because the outcomes are in God’s hands, not ours.
Jesus leads the way in exposing and opposing violence, no matter what the cost, and life is found in following his lead.
If we can lose ourselves in the worship of Christ, then Christ will come to fill our emptied egos with his own self which now dances in the freedom of God.
Paul’s word play on drunkenness is both a useful contrast and a useful comparison for Christian living.
The Gospel made known in Jesus draws us, body, mind and spirit into the full life of God. This totality of involvement scares off many people, but there is no other way to life.
Whole-hearted devotion to God and commitment to God’s mission brings joyous freedom, but also often results in derision, rejection and even violent opposition.