God’s self-giving is to all of humanity, all of the time, and we are called to lift our eyes beyond our immediate concerns and stand in solidarity with the faithful who have gone before us.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Gifts (Page 2)
It is as members of the body that you are given the gifts that are needed for this body to serve in this time and this place.
In Christ, God is made manifest to the world as King, Light and Lover.
We all have different roles within the ongoing ministry of Christ, but that ministry is ultimately not dependent on the success of individual leaders.
Jesus leads us into a joyous and healthy way of living that avoids both constricting legalism and destructive libertarianism.
God does not judge people’s capacity to respond and focus love and care only on the productive, but gives gifts with wanton freedom and extravagance and calls us to do the same.
A sermon on accepting the gifts of God
We want to be rewarded as we think we deserve, but God wants to give us everything.
The wilderness can seem harsh and threatening, but God is there, ready to nourish us with the bread of heaven.
When God accepts and gifts those who are supposed to be excluded according to our theology, then its time to change our theology to a rule of love instead of a rule of purity.
The Advent season is a gift that illumines our present with light from our promised goal, to shape us as a people of patient and vigilant faithfulness.
The Coming Christ will reward and celebrate with those he finds having a go and making the most of all they have been given, not those who fearfully play it safe.
The gifts we most need – a place of belonging and a place of sacred meaning – will be found when we offer them to others.
God will entrust us with more when we have proved trustworthy with what we have been given.