Sermons

When the world falls apart, God recognises the pain, the despair, and the anger, and gifts us with faith, with an assurance that God’s power of love will yet prevail, that God will accomplish the justice and the peace we long for.

Even those whose actions are morally indefensible usually have attributes that challenge our own failings.

Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.

In the economy of God, there are no boundaries to the welcome we, all of us, receive by the unconditional gift of God’s grace.

Our liturgical expression of faith can nurture but not substitute for putting our faith into action.

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.

In baptism we are joined to Christ and we now live as he leads, and celebrate the freedom of others to do so also.

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.

The gospel calls us on a road to healing and wholeness, but its steps are so deceptively simple (which doesn’t mean easy) that we often don’t take them seriously and so don’t do them.

God sees us, the baptised, as having the appearance of Christ, which gives us reason to believe in ourselves and live up to it.

The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.

Following Christ may take us into costly confrontation with the powers of the world, and we cannot be protected from the costs of that, but Christ will bring us through to the land of promise beyond.