An attitude of respectful silence is an essential part of a deep, intimate relationship with God.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Spirituality
The experience of winter is God’s gift, inviting us to silence, healing and new depth of life.
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.
Understanding Mary as a god-bearer opens up new possibilities, for we can all be god-bearers, carrying God’s love and longing for justice into every place that we go.
Our sure hope of a new future brought to fulfilment in the coming Christ inspires and empowers us to live now in ways which resist the despair and selfishness of our age and anticipate the peace and righteousness of the coming age.
God meets us in the midst of our worst nightmares, calling life out of death, but seldom in the ways we might most wish for.
Much of reality is usually hidden to us, but we can catch glimpses that become sustaining visions.
God approaches us in an eager desire for communion, so our task is not to strive for communion, but simply to open ourselves to receive it.
God evaluates us only in terms of our growth to fruitfulness, expressed as Christ-like love, and such fruitfulness comes only from our interrelationship with Christ. God deals with us in whatever way will lead to further growth – sometimes that is gently, sometimes it is harshly, always it is for the same purpose.
Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.
Grief and suffering bring us close to the heart of the suffering God and can open us to God’s transforming and resurrecting power.
The place of belonging that we are looking for is found when we find where Jesus belongs.
The life Christ call us to is not found by seeking to recover the past or escape from the past, but by opening ourselves to the new things God will do.
There is life and nourishment hidden in the depths, and through Jesus the rock it is accessible to us.
God is with us everywhere, whether we realise it or not, but there is still value in honouring special places of promise and revelation.
When Jesus sees us for who we really are, we are enabled to see ourselves for who we really are, without boxes and labels, and so be saved to become who we were created to be.
In the face of a plurality of spiritualities, Jesus calls us to respectfully but urgently and persistently bear witness to the good news.
The sacred is all around us and within us, but don’t make the mistake of trying to regulate it.
Extravagant devotion to the crucified Christ is the foundation of our compassion and care for other victims of the world’s callousness.
God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.