Christ’s story – the crucifixion of the truly good and its resurrection and coming victory – is the whole story of God’s work in the world and the whole story of the Bible.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Resurrection
Jesus wants to heal us from all that would diminish us, and he also wants us to cooperate with that by really wanting it and envisioning ourselves free.
Resurrection keeps happening and keeps changing the world and overcoming the hostile deathly powers despite our inability to believe.
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.
The life-changing implications of the resurrection can be just as bewildering and impossible to get our heads around as the resurrection itself.
Christ is always stretching the boundaries beyond what we can comprehend, and his ascension stretches his presence to encompass even what seem to us to be his absence.
The physicality of the resurrection is a mystery that assures us that God values and honours us as whole, embodied humans, even if our bodies are damaged or worn out.
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.
Though we are to strive for righteousness and justice now, what we achieve now is a mere shadow of what will be fulfilled in the day of the Lord.
Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.
Jesus meets us in our doubts and discombobulation and gives us instead a community of joyful hope.
A comic monologue on the story of Doubting Thomas, presented in the style of “Fred Dagg” as a fan’s tribute to the late great John Clarke.
It is only in light of the resurrection that we can comprehend the sin and death that we are being liberated from.
Grief and suffering bring us close to the heart of the suffering God and can open us to God’s transforming and resurrecting power.
Jesus’s perplexing teaching on marriage and singleness calls us into a new network of relationships in which all are fully valued.
Into the surreal fears and horrors of our murderous world comes the surreal delight of God’s resurrection laughter and the promise of life.
The resurrection of Jesus opens a path and calls us to follow into a life that is no longer dominated by the crucifying powers that destroy some of us and dehumanise others.
All that matters about God, about sin and forgiveness, and about living with integrity and freedom, flows from the human encounter with the crucified and risen Jesus.