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.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Spiritual Disciplines
Answers to prayer are not a controllable formula, but we are called to pray as part of our participation in God’s quest to bring healing, wholeness and life to a world of chaos.
Jesus has freed us to be all we were created to be and to live life to the full, not to indulge the impulses that will lead us straight back into captivity.
The only measure of our progress in Christian faith is our love for those are least inclined to love.
The Lord’s Prayer is given to us, the Church, as a model to shape all our praying.
The reading of scripture is one of the most important places where God has promised to become present and known to us.
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 Christian life is often lived against overwhelming odds, but the presence of Christ and some basic godly resources make it a good bet.
When we detach from things, God comes to fill or possess us by God’s Spirit, and suddenly the world is full of life once more.
Christian ascetic discipline is not about earning God’s acceptance, but about banishing the demons so that we can live life more fully in the here and now.
A fortified inner self not only enables a person to offer love properly but to receive love properly, even from God, to give without strings, to receive without suspicion.
In the elusive quest to know Christ, spiritual disciplines are a valuable means, but can also easily degenerate into idols.
The wound of abandonment which haunts every human being will find its healing in Christ who is everywhere present as the authority and power of God.
God has ordained that the work of God should flow from a deep and abiding being with God, from a baptism in the love which holds all things together in Christ.
Celebrating God is not to be a denial of reality, but a faith-filled reaching out for a new reality.
Jesus is not calling us to self-mutilation, but he is saying that our efforts to root out sin in ourselves need to be as rigorous as it takes, even if it means appearing like a fanatic.
The challenge of relinquishing selfish desire is a crucial key to a deeper journey into the life of Christ.
The forces seeking to destroy any chance of real Christian living are formidable, but so are the weapons God gives us.
Praise and prayer enable us to find our true identify in Christ, and it is as we find out who we are that we find our true strength.
Self sacrifice and asceticism are not incompatible with the call to care for oneself and live life to the full.