We are not added to a particular church flock in order to be in the “right” group, but in order to learn, with Christ, to love others and lay down our lives for the world.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on John (Page 6)
The glory of God is most fully revealed in Jesus’s willingness to suffer death at the hands of the law.
We are prepared to sacrifice and kill in the name of our God, but God is willing to be sacrificed and be killed to save us, even when we were enemies.
God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.
Preparing ourselves for the coming Lord is not a matter of rigorous rule keeping, but rules can help us learn the appropriate new way of being.
We are a ragtag bunch, but in witnessing to God’s mercy and love, we become the people of God together.
Jesus is the door through which we pass to receive life – life in his name – a life of authenticity, a life of freedom, a life of purpose.
God’s refining work is done not through judgement and punishment, but through the transforming power of love.
God gives us the love we thirst for, even while we are still fighting against God, and in doing so, God sets the pattern for us to follow that will bring freedom to the world.
Jesus calls us to entrust ourselves into the care of the Spirit who will carry us into the unknown future of God.
Jesus is the “Lamb of God”, a sacrifice offered by God to appease and expose the sin of the world – the sacrificial monster of human blame-shifting and scapegoating.
The experience of the living Christ keeps pushing us to think even bigger in our attempts to explain him.
The Christ child is the light who enlightens the world and as his love takes root in our hearts and lives, it causes us to light up the darkness.
When God is understood through the revelation of Jesus and his pattern of relating, then we discover ourselves invited into generous and gracious solidarity with all creation.
The resurrection of Jesus has made it possible for everyone to live fully, now, but not everyone feels ready to live.
The reputation that matters is a reputation for loving as Jesus loved and, like him, that will be seen as disreputable.
A reflection on the Good Friday story of the crucifixion from the perspective of the disciple Joanna.
Extravagant expressions of love are a sign of the culture of God, and Jesus models generous giving and receiving of them, regardless of the scandal they cause.
In Christ we are one with all flesh and blood, and so our struggle is not against any other people, but against the spirits and powers and forces which would divide people and make them enemies.
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.