Where affluence creates consumers, abundance creates neighbours. It is the ethic of possessions which Jesus commends to us as a promise of how God deals with us.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Generosity
The things we have we are to hold with open hands, looking with a generous eye for the oppotunities to share our resources in ways that make a difference.
Jesus rejects the opportunity to fulfil our hopes and expectations in order that he might give us more than we thought possible.
If we surrender ourselves to the Holy Spirit, we lose some of our inhibitions about social conformity and are liberated to break down the boundaries that keep people apart.
With every step we take towards God’s economy, we will become more powerful in our witness to God’s saving action and love for the world, and be filled ever more deeply with God’s good grace.
You cannot serve two masters; for a slave will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.
God calls us to welcome and care for “the strangers” the refugees and asylum seekers in our midst.
God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.
The life and death of Jim Stynes give a contemporary picture of what it means to give your life away.
We want to be rewarded as we think we deserve, but God wants to give us everything.
God blesses us with much more than we need, but instead of throwing away the excess, we are to take what we don’t need and do something with it.
God’s gracious acceptance is so free from favouritism that we find it scandalous and daunting.
We are called to stop defending ourselves and fighting off the intruders in the vineyard, but rather to welcome the spirit-sent opportunities that will demand of us, but will also change us.
Although all in the church may appear equally worthy, it is those who live the life (inward and outward) of the Kingdom now who are prepared for its coming.
God affirms fullness of life over religion.