Jesus challenges us to bring our lives to where God is active, to share in building the kingdom of God.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Gratitude
A close encounter with God in Christ can make us paralysingly aware of our own sin and failure, but the experience of grace can transform that into a solidarity and gratitude that empowers us.
God’s people are called to generously share their gifts, but also to humbly receive the gifts that are offered to us from unexpected sources.
What is the legacy you will leave? Live into life and love the way you want it to be, because whatever you choose will live on after you.
Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.
Glimpses of the transformed world that God makes possible transfix us and leave us hungering for more.
Tonight we farewelled Peter from our congregation as he moves north, and he shared his reflections of what his time in this church has meant to him.
As God’s people, we celebrate life in the face of death, because we know that the victory of life has been secured.
Jesus calls us to welcome and honour each other at his table regardless of the disagreements we may have over how to apply biblical teachings.
My journey has brought me to a place where I have begun to know the rest that Jesus offers.
God’s self-giving is to all of humanity, all of the time, and we are called to lift our eyes beyond our immediate concerns and stand in solidarity with the faithful who have gone before us.
A healthy self-esteem is not one that thinks itself better than others, but one that, in solidarity with others, accepts the merciful gift of life and love that Jesus offers us.
Living in hope-fuelled anticipation of God’s promised future does not mean withdrawing from the life of the world around us.
Because of God’s abundance, God’s never-ending supply of extravagant and eternal generosity, we are raised out of death and into God’s life: a life of gratitude, of loving, of belonging, out of which flows a life of service and a burning desire to participate in God’s passionate concern for the world.
In Christ we have been given a new identity that dissolves the labels of first and two-thirds world, and invites us all to be poor.
When we approach God’s way of life and the Sabbath not as punishment, but as gift, the experience becomes a chance to rest from work and from striving; and to allow space for God through contemplation and re-creation and play.
We pray for our neighbours to be blessed, but could we actually be being called to give a blessing?
We can take our salvation and just return to normal life, but God calls us beyond normal into a wholeness that grows from praise, prayer and service.
Our identity as a community of Jesus’s followers is primarily expressed in love, gratitude and hospitality, not in compliance with a negative code of conduct.
God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.