Christian spirituality is full of yearning and hungering and reaching for a God who can never quite be satisfyingly grasped.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Spirituality (Page 2)
If we can hold on to the visions of glory, while resisting the urge to nail them down, we can step into a world of suffering knowing that there is light.
The journey of a faithful life is about risk, about uncertainty, about careful, solitary reflection, and about community and conversation.
After horrendous suffering and loss, the most courageous and ultimately transformative response is to reinvest in life and love with passion and hope.
Paul’s word play on drunkenness is both a useful contrast and a useful comparison for Christian living.
An attitude of respectful silence is an essential part of a deep, intimate relationship with God.
The experience of winter is God’s gift, inviting us to silence, healing and new depth of life.
Understanding Mary as a god-bearer opens up new possibilities, for we can all be god-bearers, carrying God’s love and longing for justice into every place that we go.
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.
Much of reality is usually hidden to us, but we can catch glimpses that become sustaining visions.
God approaches us in an eager desire for communion, so our task is not to strive for communion, but simply to open ourselves to receive it.
God evaluates us only in terms of our growth to fruitfulness, expressed as Christ-like love, and such fruitfulness comes only from our interrelationship with Christ. God deals with us in whatever way will lead to further growth – sometimes that is gently, sometimes it is harshly, always it is for the same purpose.
The life Christ call us to is not found by seeking to recover the past or escape from the past, but by opening ourselves to the new things God will do.
God is with us everywhere, whether we realise it or not, but there is still value in honouring special places of promise and revelation.
When Jesus sees us for who we really are, we are enabled to see ourselves for who we really are, without boxes and labels, and so be saved to become who we were created to be.
In the face of a plurality of spiritualities, Jesus calls us to respectfully but urgently and persistently bear witness to the good news.
The sacred is all around us and within us, but don’t make the mistake of trying to regulate it.
Extravagant devotion to the crucified Christ is the foundation of our compassion and care for other victims of the world’s callousness.
God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.
With Jesus as our pattern, we find a new identity in our uncompromising allegiance to God’s ways.