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As societies collapse under the weight of their own sin, God’s promises stand firm and we are called to persevere in faith and righteousness.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Salvation
The relationship between God’s work and our work in salvation is not a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery to be lived in prayer and faithful discipleship.
Jesus constantly seeks to upend our prejudices in order to breakdown and overcome our divisive tribalism.
We all get trapped in demonic and dehumanising social structures, but Jesus unmasks the truth so that we can be set free.
When we fear for our own safety, we condone the violence that promises to protect us, and we use religion to justify it, but Jesus wants to free us to rise above the fear without resorting to hatred and violence.
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.
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.
Healing the world’s tribalism and uniting us as one human family is the central goal of the gospel, the mission of salvation, the realisation of the kingdom of God.
God is passionately in love with us and longing to give us every good thing if we will respond to his love.
Jesus overcomes the demonic powers which colonise our religious structures and thinking and which rob us of our freedom, integrity and life.
Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.
In the Christ-child we encounter God responding to our suffering and leading us into the promised land of new life.
In Christ, God has made an agreement with us, offering us everything and demanding nothing, but if we offer nothing we will be at risk of squandering it all.
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.
Christ calls us to be alert for his salvific coming in the midst of the terrors of the here and now, not just in the past and future.
If we want to understand how Jesus saves us and what Jesus saves us from, we are going to have to abandon the most widely taught explanation.
God will walk with us in suffering and work redemptively within it, but God is not powerful enough to just remove it.
All creation waits impatiently for humanity to work and pray its way into the fullness of our identity in Christ, for only then will all creation be safe and free.
As Woody Allen said, 90% of success is just showing up, and in the resurrection, Jesus really shows up!
Christ’s gratuitous forgiveness and acceptance always manage to scandalise us, but it is our willingness to embrace them that saves us.