God has created us for relationships, and any values or priorities that are willing to sacrifice relationship for something else will cripple us.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Relationships (Page 2)
When God is understood through the revelation of Jesus and his pattern of relating, then we discover ourselves invited into generous and gracious solidarity with all creation.
The love of Christ draws us into a radically deeper set of love relationships, but don’t expect them to be understood by those outside the faith.
God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.
Religious ritual and ethical living are both bound up together in the journey of following Jesus into the Realm of God.
Jesus is uncompromising in his teaching about what we do with our bodies and the significance of our relationships, but also in promising a new beginning when we find ourselves lost in this way.
The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.
The Church born when God poured out the Holy Spirit, is one in which barriers of ethnicity, language, sex, age, and social status are transcended and all are equal in Christ.
The sexy bits of the Bible point to an understanding of the sacramental nature of sexual intimacy.
Real life is found in a trusting relationship with God, but the greatest obstacle to that is a culture of trusting money and we will only be able to avoid that if we fight it together.
Our experience of being reconciled to God through Christ provides the inspiration and the model for the work of reconciliation across the various divides within our world.
People judge one another by their conformity to certain expectations (which vary from group to group), but God is only interested in our willingness to come into the loving intimacy he offers to all.
The God who stopped at nothing to stand in solidarity with us, looks for those who will give everything to work in solidarity with God.
God uses the experiences of our lives to confront us with our own imperfections and, once so confronted, we are responsible for our growth and change in that area.