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The saints of God are engaged in a war between conflicting empires battling for control of the world, but Jesus has radically transformed our understanding of how we fight.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Jesus
The ascension is the completion of the cosmic liturgy that frees us from our entanglement in sin, lifts us into the holy of holies, and sends us forth as the body of Christ for the world.
True forgiveness, which we encounter most fully in the risen Christ, does not gloss over the past but revisits it fully and carefully that we may be fully set free from it.
The whole story of the universe, from creation to ultimate redemption, is held in God’s hands and revealed in the crucified and risen Christ, and all our stories are gathered safely into that larger story.
Knowing Jesus intimately is the most important thing of all, but many of our otherwise good gifts and concerns are constantly getting in the way.
Temptation is something we all have to deal with, and Jesus shows the way in dealing with it.
The glory that has been seen in Jesus can shine forth in us, but there will be obstructions to be purged and commitments to be made first.
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.
Serving Christ as king challenges our use of power and politics and questions where our ultimate loyalty and security lie.
Jesus’s primary aim was not saving us for heaven after we die, but establishing a culture of whole-hearted loved in the here and now.
Christ’s grief gathers up our griefs and achieves the promise of a day when tears will be no more.
The capacity to understand and follow the way of Jesus is a miraculous gift.
Jesus offers himself to us to serve and bless us, and calls us to do the same in serving and blessing others.
Jesus carries and embodies the Biblical tradition of wisdom, calling us to let go of our self-focussed lives and expand into new lives of wisdom, love and compassion.
The doctrine of the Trinity teaches us how to take sides when the Bible brings us conflicting voices, especially over persistent issues like ethno-nationalism, racism, war, and genocide.
The image of Jesus as the good shepherd can speak of tough life-on-the-line love, not just cuddling lambs.
The forgiveness we experience in the risen Christ is dauntingly radical and we are called to share it.
The good news of resurrection meets us in the darkest places of our lives and so is initially incomprehensible and disorienting.
The transfiguration reminds us that in and through Jesus, the perfect Son of God and the perfect Son of Man, we each have the potential to experience and to be glimpses of God who is the true agent of change in our lives and in the world.
In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.