There are plenty of reasons to despair of the future, but Jeremiah and Jesus show us a pathway of hope that overcomes despair.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Healing (Page 2)
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.
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.
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.
Jesus urges us to take stock, to recognise the sicknesses which warp us and the demons which colonise our hearts and our minds, to renounce them so that we become free to minister to one another, and to proclaim the good news in our words and our lives.
Jesus leads us into a joyous and healthy way of living that avoids both constricting legalism and destructive libertarianism.
God is all ready to heal and free us, but organised religion is not always so quick to agree.
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.
In Christ we are set free from all that would oppress us in order that we might be free to live in gracious and life-giving service of God and others.