In the face of a plurality of spiritualities, Jesus calls us to respectfully but urgently and persistently bear witness to the good news.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Spirituality (Page 3)
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.
With Jesus as our pattern, we find a new identity in our uncompromising allegiance to God’s ways.
When we recognise Christ’s presence in the Eucharistic liturgy, we will bring the sick in search of healing.
Being born of water and Spirit involves becoming as vulnerable and dependent on God as a newborn baby is on its parents.
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.
God has promised that if we stay connected to him, then he will give us the energy and the love to go out from our comfort-zones into the alien territory of those who need God’s love most of all.
In the elusive quest to know Christ, spiritual disciplines are a valuable means, but can also easily degenerate into idols.
Darkness cannot conceal anything from God, but God who confronts us with truth and justice, and invites us to choose life and promises to help and bless us in that choice.
The world is full of offers of poisoned cups to quench our thirst, but Jesus offers us his own Spirit to sustain us in the wilderness.
We are called not to know, but to be known, not to see, but to be seen by God, who gazes upon us with a love so wide and long and deep that it surpasses all our imaginings.
The faith of Christ is about the redemptive power of wounds, so love your wound and befriend it, for it is probably an angel of God in disguise.
God calls us to detach, to empty ourselves of desire, to die with Christ, so that we may truly welcome Christ when he returns to his appointed home in our hearts and souls.
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.
God sees us, the baptised, as having the appearance of Christ, which gives us reason to believe in ourselves and live up to it.
Because of who Jesus is, we are both naked and vulnerable before him, and confident to approach God. Our only fear is of ourselves!
The challenge of relinquishing selfish desire is a crucial key to a deeper journey into the life of Christ.
You can’t define or dictate how people will experience God, even within the service of worship.
From the desire of a baby for the breast, we can learn a lot about our need of God’s nurture.