The crucified and risen Jesus teaches us to interpret the whole Bible through his eyes.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Resurrection (Page 3)
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.
God meets us in the midst of our worst nightmares, calling life out of death, but seldom in the ways we might most wish for.
The resurrection of Jesus has made it possible for everyone to live fully, now, but not everyone feels ready to live.
True forgiveness, which we encounter most fully in the risen Christ, does not gloss over the past but revisits it fully and carefully that we may be fully set free from it.
The life-changing implications of the resurrection can be just as bewildering and impossible to get our heads around as the resurrection itself.
The Holy Spirit is poured out on us so that the liberating presence of Christ may be with us all everywhere, freeing us from fear to live and speak boldly of the new life we have tasted.
The foundation of our faith is in a living Christ who enables us to understand the Bible, rather than in a Bible that enables us to understand a dead Christ.
The resurrection of Jesus is the most confronting and terrifying news imaginable, and all we can do (after trying to run) is surrender ourselves to his grace.
The gratuitous mercy made known in the resurrected Christ requires us to rethink the nature of God all the way back to creation.
United with Christ in baptism we cross the threshold from death to life, and in Eucharist we continue to touch the scars which nourish our faith and inspire our worship.
God’s promised protection can only be understood through the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection.
The promise that God will bring new life from a dead stump challenges our haste to chop down whatever seems to be in our way.
God is so totally about life, life and more life, that we have trouble comprehending anything of what God is on about.
When drought and death threaten to destroy us, God will bring us through the barren times and raise us back to life, for doing so is the defining sign of God’s presence.
The whole story of the universe, from creation to ultimate redemption, is held in God’s hands and revealed in the crucified and risen Christ, and all our stories are gathered safely into that larger story.
A sermon for the Great Paschal Vigil preached by the Revd Andrew Woff
The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.
The risen Christ and his word are often revealed in the words and actions of a stranger. Sometimes we are called to welcome and heed the stranger; and sometimes we are called to be the faithful stranger to others.
Faith in the risen Christ is always a physical thing, experienced and expressed in physical ways.