The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Resurrection (Page 4)
The risen Christ and his word are often revealed in the words and actions of a stranger. Sometimes we are called to welcome and heed the stranger; and sometimes we are called to be the faithful stranger to others.
Faith in the risen Christ is always a physical thing, experienced and expressed in physical ways.
In Baptism, Christ has united us with himself in his death to sin and his resurrection to radically new life.
You might have been written off as a dead loss (even by yourself), but only respond to the call of Christ, and you will live!
Christ is so present we loose the ability to see him. We need to worship to recover our sight.
The encounter with the resurrected crucified Jesus enables us to see the absolute love, mercy and non-vengefulness of God.
The risen Christ confronts us with both the gruesome consequences of our violence and the terrifying shock of grace.
The death of Christ strips us bare, but in his resurrection we are clothed in Christ and become participants in his resurrection life.
When hopes have been extinguished and all is despair, God comes back.
The message of Pentecost is the message of Pascha – Christ is risen and, in him, we are liberated from our captivity to the spirits of death, fear, despair, and division, and freed to dance to the Holy Spirit’s tune.
Jesus’s resurrection was a sign which declared that Jesus’ cause was God’s cause, that Jesus’ values were God’s values, that Jesus’ people were God’s people.
The risen Christ is extravagantly generous and excruciatingly unwilling to settle for pious platitudes in return.
The experience of the resurrected Christ may not be as instantly transformative as we’ve often thought, but those who seek Christ’s self-revelation will grow into his mission.
Jesus promises that if we will face our deepest fear – the loss of our very souls – and if we will trust in his love, then we shall live, even though we die.
The resurrection has broken open many old certainties, and our ethics must now be grounded in the new things God is doing, characterised by radically inclusive love, rather than in the old restrictions.
The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
As the victim of the ultimate in human evil, the risen Christ is the One who can offer the complete forgiveness, to us, and through us to the rest of the world.
The Transfiguration points us back to Jesus’ baptism and forward to his resurrection, and reiterates that the only way from one to the other is the way of the cross.
By preparing ourselves to die with Christ, we are raised and transfigured, new people with a new vocation.