Sermons

In the Christ-child we encounter God responding to our suffering and leading us into the promised land of new life.

The particularity of Jesus’s identity scandalises our tribal sensibilities, but our attempts to erase such details in favour of a more “universal” truth inevitably fail to convey the good news of God with us.

God comes to us in unexpected ways, and the break with conventional religious respectability is even more earth-shattering than the break with conventional reproductive biology.

Jesus asks us to assess the legitimacy of any ministry by its transforming and liberating outcomes for the world and its peoples.

Our sure hope of a new future brought to fulfilment in the coming Christ inspires and empowers us to live now in ways which resist the despair and selfishness of our age and anticipate the peace and righteousness of the coming age.

The Advent break in of God in Christ is underway, bringing disruption of a status quo that our world needs to be free of, and liberation from the imprisonment of sin.

Jesus comes to break us free from oppressive understandings of God and of God’s expectations of us.

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.