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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.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Jesus
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.
Jesus calls us to a new world in which the lives of nations revolve around bringing the previously marginalised to the centre of our national way of being. Nations that fail to do that collapse into self-destruction.
While many have a passive-aggressive relationship with God, the gospel gives us a vision of God that liberates us to live freely, expansively and joyously.
There is life and nourishment hidden in the depths, and through Jesus the rock it is accessible to us.
Looking for emerging patterns can help us (and Jesus?) recognise the ways that God is opening new pathways of grace and inclusion.