‘The words I have spoken are spirit and life’
We only reliably recognise and combat evil by listening to Jesus and taking his wisdom into our hearts.
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The Wounded Body
It is in our woundedness, this woundedness we try to avoid and would rather not acknowledge, that we find our identity as the body of Christ, our identity as the church.
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The Way of the Cross
When we respond to the call to model our lives on his life, the life of the One who has seen the Father, then, like him, we must not sidestep or avoid suffering.
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The Children of the King
We have been adopted as the children of a king who does not withhold his love until we comply, who does not ask us to sing for our supper, who does not use us or abuse us, but longs to bind up our wounds.
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The hard work and promise of love
A sermon in response to a broken relationship in the church
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It doesn’t get better than this!
Because we really don’t have the whole truth, the Spirit will be heard only when we are together, listening to one another in love.
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“I Am Myself”
We shall be ourselves when we are able to surrender ourselves to Christ and say ‘not my will, but yours’.
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An Economy of Abundance
With every step we take towards God’s economy, we will become more powerful in our witness to God’s saving action and love for the world, and be filled ever more deeply with God’s good grace.
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Very Busy, Very Important?
When we approach God’s way of life and the Sabbath not as punishment, but as gift, the experience becomes a chance to rest from work and from striving; and to allow space for God through contemplation and re-creation and play.
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Into the wilderness
Lent is a time to walk knowingly into the wilderness, to face the Accuser and the wild beasts that emerge when we live out our identity as God’s children.