God’s new culture of forgiveness is entered by faith, and sometimes it is even vicarious faith.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Faith (Page 3)
Every relationship in the universe – between God and creation, between humans, and between humans and creation – is driven by three dynamics: justice, mercy and faith.
We are given gifts from God – faith, love and hope – to help us cope with all that is less than God – especially when ‘principalities and powers’ overwhelm us.
In the pain of discouragement, God keeps whispering to us: I am still with you, and the future has possibilities you have not dreamed of. So take courage, keep at it, hold on, don’t give up.
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 answers to the questions about our future directions are not easy, but we can trust the God who holds our future in his hands.
The only thing which proves to be worth anything at all, the only thing that proves able to continually redeem our lives from the brink is faith in the crucified and risen one.
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.
We go out not to take Christ to others, but to meet Christ among them and reconnect his story and theirs.
Faced with the callous injustice of the world, it takes tenacious trust in the vision of God’s just reign to survive.
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.
Our liturgical expression of faith can nurture but not substitute for putting our faith into action.
We are saved by our trust in God, and the only basis we are offered for our trust is the cross.
Christian discipleship is about fully living the faith you have, and it is a basic human duty, not a cause for special commendation.
Our doubts and questions are welcome to God so long as we are not using them to avoid Christ’s question to us – “Will you follow me?”
Our life of faith is a journey motivated by the vision God gives us of what lies ahead.
Resurrection keeps happening despite our inability to believe.