Topic: Spirituality

Hope is a courageous and active stance towards life which is nourished in those who attend to the voice of God in Scripture.

Healthy spirituality requires an honesty about our experience of pain and confusion in the real world, and that means that lamentation is a part of healthy prayer.

Knowing Jesus intimately is the most important thing of all, but many of our otherwise good gifts and concerns are constantly getting in the way.

When we truly encounter God in worship, we see everything in all its splendour and horror and are transformed for mission.

God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.

The childhood picture of Jesus’ development calls us to ensure that our relationship with God is our primary allegiance, our first responsibility and the foundation of our identity.

Young. Woman. Pregnant. Unmarried. How does Mary the mother of Jesus speak to you today?

Jesus carries and embodies the Biblical tradition of wisdom, calling us to let go of our self-focussed lives and expand into new lives of wisdom, love and compassion.

While a dedicated building can serve a valuable role in our worship, God calls us to follow far beyond the confines of the building.

Living water is for all of us that would like to try it. When we try it, our lives change and instead of being thirsty we become a spring. As a result, our neighbours can try it too.

Christ is always stretching the boundaries beyond what we can comprehend, and his ascension stretches his presence to encompass even what seem to us to be his absence.

The transfiguration reminds us that in and through Jesus, the perfect Son of God and the perfect Son of Man, we each have the potential to experience and to be glimpses of God who is the true agent of change in our lives and in the world.