The threat of extreme climate change can only be averted with a major spiritual transformation, and Jesus shows the way.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Jeremiah (Page 2)
Faithfulness to God means sticking to the ways in which Jesus has led us, but we are constantly tempted to idolise his name while avoiding his ways.
Most of us are addicted to achieving results and success, and it is crippling us. Jesus leads us towards an unexpected and almost unrecognisable freedom.
The life that Jesus calls us too will not be found and enjoyed until we give up trying to engineer the life we dreamed we were supposed to be living.
Living in hope-fuelled anticipation of God’s promised future does not mean withdrawing from the life of the world around us.
Jesus offers us vision of the future which sharply differs from that offered by modern economics, and we need to intentionally nourish that vision.
God longs to welcome and bless us far more than we deserve, but if we don’t contribute to a culture of extravagant grace, we are unlikely to be able to receive it.
If we construct our identity around a pursuit of social esteem, we will degrade our true selves, but if we model ourselves on the generosity of God, we will find true life where few look for it.
Jesus came into the world to fill us with new life, and encourage us, and show us how to grow, so if we remain focussed on the light, letting it shine into our areas of darkness, then darkness will never have the last word.
The glory of God is most fully revealed in Jesus’s willingness to suffer death at the hands of the law.
Thanks be to God, we are in safe hands. God who has been the author, will also be the finisher of our faith.
Those who trust God and remain flexible enough to change and grow will have nothing to fear from God’s strong hands.
God speaks prophetically through the Church and through some individuals, and the prophetic task is inseparable from humility, constructiveness, graciousness, love, patience and generosity.
We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.
The sacred is all around us and within us, but don’t make the mistake of trying to regulate it.
In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.
Jesus acted out the parables that he was telling in his encounters with people, expressing the nature of God who seeks after us and rejoices in our being found and restored. God invites us to be people like that.
God is deeply hurt and offended by our rejection of God in favour of things that are worthless, but Jesus has made possible both our forgiveness and our reconciliation.
When the world falls apart, God recognises the pain, the despair, and the anger, and gifts us with faith, with an assurance that God’s power of love will yet prevail, that God will accomplish the justice and the peace we long for.
Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.