God will walk with us in suffering and work redemptively within it, but God is not powerful enough to just remove it.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Healing
When our world and our hearts feel dry, cut off, and despondent, there is hope and life to be found in God’s promises.
All creation waits impatiently for humanity to work and pray its way into the fullness of our identity in Christ, for only then will all creation be safe and free.
Our generation is very good at identifying evils and calling them out, but if our hearts are not occupied by God’s love and mercy, the results can be disastrous.
Jesus calls us to follow his lead in bringing healing, hope and positive leadership to others, and not to be too worried about anxious and vexatious criticism.
There are plenty of reasons to despair of the future, but Jeremiah and Jesus show us a pathway of hope that overcomes despair.
The lectionary reading I’ve decided to focus on today is the reading from 2 Kings 5:1-14. I’ll be honest I chose this passage because of its unfamiliarity. Because of its strangeness. In undergrad I studied anthropology, the study of cultures, be it subcultures within our own culture or cultures more foreign. There’s a saying in anthropology that describes much of what the…
We have been drawn into an unstoppable rumour that keeps interrupting the dominant story of fear, hostility and death.
The call to love our enemies is not a new law to slave at, but a call into a culture of love so wild and free and strong that no one can hate it out of us.
I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we meet today. I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present, and emerging. I pay my respects to any who may be here today. I’m not sure if you know this but I read this week that Australia Day as a celebration of the founding of this nation only became…
It is not from the halls of power but from humble places that the love which offers wholeness and healing and peace erupts into life.
Sickness and sin are similar and related disorders from which Jesus comes to to heal and save us.
Jesus calls us to move beyond hostile identity politics, whether shaped by Sabbath keeping or #Outrage, and to welcome a new culture of love, forgiveness and welcome.
When Jesus heals, he is not seeking to minister solely to the individual, but to heal a sick culture, and the culture we live in needs his healing.
My journey has brought me to a place where I have begun to know the rest that Jesus offers.
Jesus died an apparent failure, but in his resurrection, the failure’s power over us is broken for ever.
Jesus subverts our concepts of sin and offers to open our eyes and free us from it all.
Every coin you are holding already belongs to God: every bitterness, every hurt, every disappointment. Do not hold a single one back.
Jesus wants to lift us beyond the deadening conformity that seeks to silence us and confine us to a stunted life.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that another person can do to you that can make you unclean or defiled in the eyes of God.