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.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Incarnation (Page 2)
The light of Christ reaches the world through those who will bear the wounds of love.
The nativity story proclaims the basic themes of the gospel message; God enters into our suffering world as a victim of our violence, and is rejected by most but recognised by the nobodies.
Today, as in Jesus’s day, two fundamentally different visions of God and God’s expectations compete. Jesus calls us to side with the one that centres on love rather than the one that centres on concerns for holiness.
Jesus is the Word – what God has to say – who reveals true humanity and illuminates our path to becoming fully and truly human.
In Joseph we see an impressive example of someone with the integrity and courage to embrace God’s new directions despite considerable personal cost.
To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority and to critique all power-mongering.
God becomes human and brings into himself (reconciles to himself) in Jesus the full range of human emotional experience.
Understanding Mary as a god-bearer opens up new possibilities, for we can all be god-bearers, carrying God’s love and longing for justice into every place that we go.
Most suffering is random and unfair, but Jesus has joined us in it to lead us into new life.
God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.
We are welcoming a baby born into occupied territories to a fiercely holy young woman, and we are recognising in that baby the hope of liberation.
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.
Like Mary, we are called to participate in God’s recreation and blessing of the world, and when we comprehend that call, we will, like Mary, explode with joy.
As difficult as it is to imagine, God is shockingly present with us in Jesus.
As creatures made in the image of God, imitation of God is the pathway to fullness of life.
We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.
Jesus full humanity meant that temptation was real for him, as it is for us. Temptation is not in itself bad, but indicates to us that we have a gift of choice.
The revelation of what God is on about in Christ will always upend our expectations and disrupt our lives.