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.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Relationships (Page 2)
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.