When God closes one chapter before opening another, the time in between is a time for prayer and entering into the life of God.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Spirituality
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.
Like the woman at the well, we can encounter Jesus not simply as a historical worker of “signs and wonders” but as a contemporary spirit powering our actions today if only we are willing to take a leap of faith and believe in His Word.
Being born of water and Spirit involves becoming as vulnerable and dependent on God as a newborn baby.
The place of belonging that we are looking for is found when we find where Jesus belongs.
In Jesus, the truth about God’s ways and means is brought to light and we are called to so reflect that light that all might be drawn to it.
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.
The faithful who have gone before us are held securely in the powerful gracious memory of God, where their love and prayers for us live on until we are united with them in resurrection.
Christian spirituality is full of yearning and hungering and reaching for a God who can never quite be satisfyingly grasped.
If we can hold on to the visions of glory, while resisting the urge to nail them down, we can step into a world of suffering knowing that there is light.
The journey of a faithful life is about risk, about uncertainty, about careful, solitary reflection, and about community and conversation.
After horrendous suffering and loss, the most courageous and ultimately transformative response is to reinvest in life and love with passion and hope.
Paul’s word play on drunkenness is both a useful contrast and a useful comparison for Christian living.
An attitude of respectful silence is an essential part of a deep, intimate relationship with God.
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.
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.