Sermons

There is life and nourishment hidden in the depths, and through Jesus the rock it is accessible to us.

In order to recognise and cooperate with what God is doing, we often need to recognise and see past the assumptions that come with our own privilege.

God’s offer of unlimited forgiveness creates a new world in which we are free to stop judging one another and turning on one another and spiralling into violence and hatred.

When we approach everyone with meet with the conviction that the one thing we owe them is love, Christianity will again be experienced as good news.

Our true identity is only found when we discover that it is not about us, but that we are only truly anyone in relation to the God who is everything, and who is not the opposite of anything.

We respond to Jesus in different ways at different times, because we are not fully integrated in ourselves, but God loves us in all our fragmented parts.

Looking for emerging patterns can help us (and Jesus?) recognise the ways that God is opening new pathways of grace and inclusion.

Jesus never stops crossing the menacing water to come to where we are, saying: “Take courage. It is I. Don’t be afraid.”

God’s Providence usually works by people, moved by the Spirit of God, sharing when they have more above their own needs.

We are not alone or orphaned. The one who creates, loves, reconciles, shows us the way to truth, shows us the way into the future is an abiding presence with us.

The stairway to heaven is revealed in the darkest places and situations of our lives, in the difficult and dangerous places, in the situations where we least expected it.

A sermon on Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 by Dr John Sampson… read more