Sermons

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.

Our worship is a part of a cosmic liturgy of praise to the One who was slaughtered in reconciling a suffering universe to God.

Locating our struggles within the bigger picture of God’s purposes can give hope and purpose, but it also places us in a challenging place of priestly mission.

The Parable of the Prodigal Son may really be intended by Jesus as the Parable of the Loving Father and the Angry Brother.

The beatitudes proclaim God’s preferential love for the poor and challenge us to rethink our own dependence on financial security.

A modern paraphrase of a Homily from St Gregory Nazianzus for the Feast of the Nativity

Although the coming Christ is brings our deepest hopes to fulfillment, the transition will be traumatic and we still fear his coming because of our unhealthy investments in the present.

When we call Jesus King, we may not know what we’re saying.

Jesus calls us to accept forgiveness and get on with a life and faith that do not revolve constantly about trying to make up for mistakes.

Love is both command and promise and is what gives meaning to all our offerings to God.

Summing up the previous section of the gospel, Bartimaeus is a model disciple – one who sees who Jesus is, has no pretensions to power, leaves everything, and follows Jesus on the way.