Being born of water and Spirit involves becoming as vulnerable and dependent on God as a newborn baby.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Spirituality (Page 2)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.