Sermons

We all learn our desires from others, but most of them are destructive, and law tries to control them. The pathway to freedom and life is to follow Jesus and learn to desire as he desires.

In an increasingly polarised world, championing the radical love and mercy shown by Jesus is likely to bring hostility from all sides.

Both contemporary and ancient understandings of the rainbow sign point to God’s expansive love overcoming our fears and hostilities.

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.

Following Jesus in ministering among the needs around us is not a call to do everything ourselves.

Jesus overcomes the demonic powers which colonise our religious structures and thinking and which rob us of our freedom, integrity and life.

The story of Jonah challenges us whenever we start thinking that we have special rights as God’s people.

In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.

As we journey with and into God, we all prepare carefully, travel persistently, seek advice, approach the sacred with humility, and discern the way forward.

God reaches out to us through babies and elderly folks with a message of love and redemption that cuts through the theological justifications of empire and warmongering and calls us to peace.

The the birth of Jesus we see the beginning of a peace mission that is not based on force but on patience, forgiveness and presence.

Discovering who we are called to be is an ever-evolving journey as we follow Jesus in changing circumstances.