Celebrating God is not to be a denial of reality, but a faith-filled reaching out for a new reality.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Spiritual Disciplines
Worshipful singing together helps shape our communal identity as a people who can live for love, joy and reconciliation in a world of hostility and oppression.
As we journey with and into God, we all prepare carefully, travel persistently, seek advice, approach the sacred with humility, and discern the way forward.
The author of Hebrews is concerned that the first-century believers will become distracted and discouraged, so he wrote the letter of Hebrews to exhort and encourage them. This passage also speaks to us today and tells us an important message so that we can stay on course in our spiritual journey and finish the race of life that God has set for us.
Repetition of everything God-like is an important pathway to Christian maturity.
When God closes one chapter before opening another, the time in between is a time for prayer and entering into the life of God.
Stunning moments of spiritual clarity can be life-changing, but the real measure of our faithfulness is in how we live for the rest of the time.
The Holy Spirit is breathing sacred life into all creation and continually working for the making sacred of all creation.
When God is doing new things, our familiar signposts are no longer helpful, and our capacity to follow is dependent on our living relationship with Jesus.
The temptations faced by Jesus reveal common patterns in the demonic temptations that we face in our own lives.
The only measure of our progress in Christian faith is our love for others, including those we are least inclined to love.
An attitude of respectful silence is an essential part of a deep, intimate relationship with God.
Jesus preached a vision of the Kingdom of God that re-orders our lives and communities, and finds an honoured place for those often excluded for not conforming to the pervasive norms of marriage and family.
The Bible can be used to justify anything, but when it is approached humbly as a place of prayerful encounter with the risen Christ, it is alive with the breath of God and leads us to life.
Answers to prayer are not a controllable formula, but we are called to pray as part of our participation in God’s quest to bring healing, wholeness and life to a world of chaos.
Jesus has freed us to be all we were created to be and to live life to the full, not to indulge the impulses that will lead us straight back into captivity.
Jesus has sown the seeds. It is up to us to respond and even though we may get excited and the interest dissipates, or we get distracted and let the other priorities take a hold of us, or we actually feel nothing, the challenge for us is to continue our walk with God.
Staying true to the disciplines of ordinary faithfulness is part of our calling as we follow the way of Jesus Christ; and engaging in them eases our burdens considerably.
The Lord’s Prayer is given to us, the Church, as a model to shape all our praying.
The reading of scripture is one of the most important places where God has promised to become present and known to us.