Jesus comes to break us free from oppressive understandings of God and of God’s expectations of us.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Crucifixion
The cross of Jesus can teach us to recognise the innocence of suffering, and so enable us to recognise our own dependence on God’s mercy and to stop digging our own hells.
The resurrection of Jesus opens a path and calls us to follow into a life that is no longer dominated by the crucifying powers that destroy some of us and dehumanise others.
All that matters about God, about sin and forgiveness, and about living with integrity and freedom, flows from the human encounter with the crucified and risen Jesus.
The crucified and risen Jesus teaches us to interpret the whole Bible through his eyes.
A reflection on the Good Friday story of the crucifixion from the perspective of the disciple Joanna.
God’s promised protection can only be understood through the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
The message of the cross cuts against everything that would divide us from one another, and so cuts against everything that would drive us out.
Jesus leads the way in exposing and opposing violence, no matter what the cost, and life is found in following his lead.
The Cross is the tree at which we come to know the fullness of good and evil, and as we choose to bear the consequences of good and evil, it becomes for us the tree of life.
The world will try to domesticate the gospel and get it to reinforce the world’s status quo and moral codes, but as people identified with Christ on the cross, we live the radical (and offensive) life of the new creation.
Christ’s story – the crucifixion of the truly good and its resurrection and coming victory – is the whole story of God’s work in the world and the whole story of the Bible.
Our worship is a part of a cosmic liturgy of praise to the One who was slaughtered in reconciling a suffering universe to God.
We are saved by our trust in God, and the only basis we are offered for our trust is the cross.
The experience of Christ crucified unites us – theories about it are more likely to divide us.