Sermons

The global social breakdown of which Jesus speaks is caused by the failure of our old oppressive ways of maintaining peace, but God has promised us a better way on the other side.

Jesus’s perplexing teaching on marriage and singleness calls us into a new network of relationships in which all are fully valued.

The faithful who have gone before us are held securely in the powerful gracious memory of God, where their love and prayers for us live on until we are united with them in resurrection.

Jesus seeks out and embraces the outcasts, taking upon himself the hatred and hostility that had been directed at them.

God invites us into a journey of healing, growth and reconciliation, and values our engagement with that journey far above our individual accomplishments.

God has promised a time of resurrection and renewal, and has given us guidance for living faithfully in the meantime.

Jesus challenges us to bring our lives to where God is active, to share in building the kingdom of God.

When you know yourself truly beloved by God in Christ, you are freed from fear and shame to live fully and generously and courageously.

The cross of Jesus can teach us to recognise the innocence of suffering, and so enable us to recognise our own dependence on God’s mercy and to stop digging our own hells.

Jesus’s parables always shock us, and few things shock us more than the outrageous graciousness that God shows us and calls for from us.

Our unwitting abusive treatment of the Royal family is a symptom of our entanglement in systemic persecution.

As dangerous climate change unfolds before our eyes, the best possible outcome is entirely dependent upon humanity coming to a full acknowledgement of its special power and its special responsibility, which must centrally involve mastering our power.