Being a disciple of Jesus is not about changing behaviour, it’s about changing life! It’s about being changed at our very core so that our inner motivations and attitudes are transformed.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Relationships
Jesus’s perplexing teaching on marriage and singleness calls us into a new network of relationships in which all are fully valued.
The Holy Spirit is breathing sacred life into all creation and continually working for the making sacred of all creation.
Living out the unity we have in Christ, is more difficult and more important when we are at odds with one another.
God’s kindness is exceptional, and we too are called to be courageous in exceptional kindness and loyalty.
The Kingdom of God can only be accepted the way a child welcomes a hug, not the way lawyers accept a divorce settlement.
There will always be people in the church you find difficult to get on with, and it is their presence that will really enable you to grow in your ability to love.
The more challenging life in this world becomes, the more opportunity for Christians like us to live out the love of God by loving our neighbours.
Jesus preached a vision of the Kingdom of God that re-orders our lives and communities, and finds an honoured place for those often excluded for not conforming to the pervasive norms of marriage and family.
God created us and set us in a network of relationships with God, with the creation, with one another, and with ourselves, and all four connections need to be maintained for health.
In an us-and-them world, people hope to find a way to get God on their side, but Jesus confounds our expectations of God siding against others.
Good gossip, listening in love to each other’s stories and seeking the presence of God, helps us to build connection and community and to grow in love.
It is in our woundedness, this woundedness we try to avoid and would rather not acknowledge, that we find our identity as the body of Christ, our identity as the church.
God has created us for relationships, and any values or priorities that are willing to sacrifice relationship for something else will cripple us.
When God is understood through the revelation of Jesus and his pattern of relating, then we discover ourselves invited into generous and gracious solidarity with all creation.
The love of Christ draws us into a radically deeper set of love relationships, but don’t expect them to be understood by those outside the faith.
God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.
Religious ritual and ethical living are both bound up together in the journey of following Jesus into the Realm of God.
Jesus is uncompromising in his teaching about what we do with our bodies and the significance of our relationships, but also in promising a new beginning when we find ourselves lost in this way.
The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.