If God seems unjust, we can and should question God’s integrity, for God welcomes our questions in order that the falsehoods might be stripped away and the truth revealed.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on 1 & 2 Samuel (Page 2)
God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.
On our own we are powerless to deal with many of the things that confront us, but when we recognise that and make ourselves available for whatever God wants to do, all kinds of scary things may actually be possible.
A growing incidence of cataclysmic violence is not a sign of God’s activity, but it does call us to hold on to our hope and look for God’s action in small signs of life coming from death.
Jesus reveals that God is a God of abundance who will lovingly provide plenty for all, but the common perception of scarcity easily corrupts us and leads to treachery and abuse.
God created everything and destined everything to be part of the one glorious story of God’s love and grace, and through Jesus, God draws us back into the story.
When things are desperate, God calls us only to be faithful and committed, because the outcomes are in God’s hands, not ours.
Jesus becomes a victim of our systems of feeding on one another in order to forgive us, set us free, and nourish us for life.
The church is formed when we ask Christ to rule over us and make a covenant with him to define the terms.
The Christian life is often lived against overwhelming odds, but the presence of Christ and some basic godly resources make it a good bet.
In the encounter with Jesus, our self-delusion and our scapegoating are painfully exposed, but with the possibility of forgiveness and freedom.
The answers to the questions about our future directions are not easy, but we can trust the God who holds our future in his hands.
If we can lose ourselves in the worship of Christ, then Christ will come to fill our emptied egos with his own self which now dances in the freedom of God.
God is always acting, but often in surprising and paradoxical ways. The ways of God often reverse human expectations.
Whole-hearted devotion to God and commitment to God’s mission brings joyous freedom, but also often results in derision, rejection and even violent opposition.