The doctrine of the Trinity is not a mathematical puzzle, but an invitation to an experience of relationships, sharing in the life and mission of God.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Mission
The Holy Spirit fills the church with gifts, not only for its own sake, but so that it might be a gift to the world.
Stories of life, worship and ministry from the new church we have helped to plant in Warrnambool, where more than half of the congregation are children.
The parable of the sower is not about us and our shortfalls but on the generosity of our Maker – the Prolific Sower.
Election week sheds new light on how we can participate with Jesus in bringing satanic principalities and powers crashing down.
When we’re met by the living Christ, we’re not invited to simply change our opinions about some things in life, and go on as we have before. We’re called, we’re changed, we’re transformed from top to bottom, from the inside out. Life can never be the same again.
Understanding Mary as a god-bearer opens up new possibilities, for we can all be god-bearers, carrying God’s love and longing for justice into every place that we go.
Love is our purpose; we are not abandoned, not fearful, judgemental or self-righteous, for we are made in the image of God, who is gentle and wise, witty and loving, generous, forgiving, compassionate and kind.
In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.
We pray for our neighbours to be blessed, but could we actually be being called to give a blessing?
The message of Easter was that the disciples would find Jesus – not at the empty tomb – but going ahead of them into Galilee – on the mission field.
Like Mary, we are called to participate in God’s recreation and blessing of the world, and when we comprehend that call, we will, like Mary, explode with joy.
God calls us to welcome and care for “the strangers” the refugees and asylum seekers in our midst.
Our One God and Father feeds us with one bread so that we might grow up into Christ and be the missional community the Spirit is leading us to become.
In baptism we are adopted into a new family that is radically inclusive of those who have been cut off.
The experience of the resurrected Christ may not be as instantly transformative as we’ve often thought, but those who seek Christ’s self-revelation will grow into his mission.
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.
Rediscovering the mission of Jesus is one pathway through which we might re-enter the experience of dependence on God.
God has promised that if we stay connected to him, then he will give us the energy and the love to go out from our comfort-zones into the alien territory of those who need God’s love most of all.