The things we have we are to hold with open hands, looking with a generous eye for the oppotunities to share our resources in ways that make a difference.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Fullness of Life
Jesus leads the way towards a new experience of life that is so utterly alive that death is powerless to threaten, limit or constrain it.
When God calls us to invest in the places we live, it is a call to active agents of positive change, not compliant patriots.
I want to look today at the story Jesus told in today’s gospel reading. It’s a story set on the road between Jerusalem and Jericho, and apart from the usual interpretations we bring to it, it is for me a story about chance encounters and being open to what happens. I’d like to start by…
There is nothing wrong with an eager desire for a special closeness to Jesus. Jesus is eager to fulfil such desires, but warns us of the cost of sticking with him.
When we commit ourselves to following Jesus, we surrender all our personal aspirations and our share in the aspirations of our nation, in order that we might receive the life of Christ.
Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.
Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.
By lifting us out our enthralment to evil and death, Jesus sets us free from all that corrupts us and opens us to share real life with him.
Jesus wants to lift us beyond the deadening conformity that seeks to silence us and confine us to a stunted life.
God promises the best for us if we follow the way of Jesus, and faith is actively trusting that that pathway will indeed be the way of life.
Despite our often minimal vision for ourselves, and our feeling of not being important to God, Jesus Christ is committed to bringing us to the fullness of life and wholeness.
God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.
Jesus does not burden us with crippling moral expectations, but humbly takes our burdens on himself and frees us to relax into the life of God.
The Ten Commandments are not about creating a system of law and punishment. They are a window into the stories and the lifestyle of the culture of God.
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.
Salvation is about being set free to live life in all its fulness, even in the midst of conflict and suffering.
The resurrection of Jesus has made it possible for everyone to live fully, now, but not everyone feels ready to live.
God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.