When our world and our hearts feel dry, cut off, and despondent, there is hope and life to be found in God’s promises.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Prayer
Jesus calls us to prayerfully persevere for what is right and what is good, to never give up on our quest for the promise of life, and to always hold on to hope for the fulfilment of God’s will and purpose for our lives.
In the midst of our world, with its trials, sins, hunger, and longing for the rule of love, the prayer of Jesus leads us back to our loving God and Father.
The COVID-19 scare can reinforce our Lenten call to prepare our hearts by facing up to our mortality and the real limits of our control over the world.
The gift of tongues can be a valuable part of our private spirituality, but the needs of public worship require something more than the private intimacies of our spirituality.
God may not always give us what we want in answer to our prayers, but will always be with us through the Spirit to help us face whatever it is that life puts before us.
Every coin you are holding already belongs to God: every bitterness, every hurt, every disappointment. Do not hold a single one back.
Faithful witness to the Coming Christ is not expressed by trying to force the world into our concepts of righteousness, but by joyously, prayerfully, and thankfully cooperating with the liberating work of the Spirit, even in the face of violent opposition.
Pray for all people and let God do the judging. The world may be an evil place but you are God’s children and evil has been overcome.
Christ calls us to continue to grow in the measure of our love, prayer and good works.
There is a fundamental culture clash between those who put their trust in God and those who pursue wealth, comfort and celebrity.
A fortified inner self not only enables a person to offer love properly but to receive love properly, even from God, to give without strings, to receive without suspicion.
By preparing ourselves to die with Christ, we are raised and transfigured, new people with a new vocation.
God has ordained that the work of God should flow from a deep and abiding being with God, from a baptism in the love which holds all things together in Christ.
The Bible highlights the consequences of the world’s unjust economic system, and we, as the church, are called to find ways of living out our prayer for justice.
Praise and prayer enable us to find our true identify in Christ, and it is as we find out who we are that we find our true strength.