Sermons

Healing the world’s tribalism and uniting us as one human family is the central goal of the gospel, the mission of salvation, the realisation of the kingdom of God.

In his suffering death, Jesus calls us to solidarity with all who suffer, and in his complete lack of vengefulness, the risen Christ offers the hope of healing from our violence.

God is most likely and able to work through those who accept their own weakness and don’t try to forcefully assert their own power and influence.

Though the experience of grief often feels like an absence of God, it is a deep experience of the heart of God, and is symbolised as such in the brokenness of the Eucharist.

Despite our almost idolatrous attachment to social structures like traditional family and monarchy, God wants us to live up to our calling to be a radically egalitarian community of prayerful shared responsibility.

Those who faithfully follow Jesus and proclaim his message are flawed human beings who will not often appear successful or impressive.

The doctrine of the Trinity teaches us how to take sides when the Bible brings us conflicting voices, especially over persistent issues like ethno-nationalism, racism, war, and genocide.

The Holy Spirit, poured out on the church, opens pathways of communication, breaking down barriers to enable us to communicate with one another and with God.

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.

In order for men to step up and end the scourge of domestic violence, they need to experience themselves as loved and valued, liberating them to love others.

In baptism we are adopted into a new family that is radically inclusive of those who have been cut off.