Sermons

A sermon on Matthew 11:16-19,25-30 & Romans 7:15-25a by the… read more

The usual interpretation of the binding of Isaac is that God requires us to sacrifice everything, even, if asked, our own children. But could a contextual awareness reveal a more life-giving reading?

Jesus did not come with the goal of making some gentle improvements to the status quo, but to disable the status quo by exposing its lies and revealing its victims. Without our culture being radically converted by that, the result is escalating chaos, to which Jesus offers himself as a victim and calls us to do the same.

Jesus calls us to follow him in being a contagious force for love and mercy rather than fearfully quarantining ourselves from bad influences.

What does the first creation story in Genesis look like through a decolonised lens? We hear insights from First Nations scholars who reveal the life-giving power of Spirit and Land together.

Repetition of everything God-like is an important pathway to Christian maturity.

When God closes one chapter before opening another, the time in between is a time for prayer and entering into the life of God.

Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.

In the most hidden and dark places, God is at work.

In the face of the cultural call for an all-tolerating lack of conviction, we are called to be a particular people who follow and champion a distinctive way – the way found in Jesus.

Jesus’s purpose for us is that we (individually and collectively) have fullness of life.

Jesus meets us in our doubts and discombobulation and gives us instead a community of joyful hope.