Sermons

Jesus rejects the opportunity to fulfil our hopes and expectations in order that he might give us more than we thought possible.

Building impressive buildings can be about a desire to monopolise and contain God, whereas God wants us to break down any walls that divide and exclude anyone.

We have been adopted as the children of a king who does not withhold his love until we comply, who does not ask us to sing for our supper, who does not use us or abuse us, but longs to bind up our wounds.

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.

Despite our often minimal vision for ourselves, and our feeling of not being important to God, Jesus Christ is committed to bringing us to the fullness of life and wholeness.

God calls us to faithful expressions of the Culture of God which usually look unimpressive and unruly when judged by the world’s usual standards of success.

Satan casts out satan all the time in our divisive attempts to protect ourselves by demonising and expelling others.

A sermon in response to a broken relationship in the church

We all have different roles within the ongoing ministry of Christ, but that ministry is ultimately not dependent on the success of individual leaders.

Love is our purpose; we are not abandoned, not fearful, judgemental or self-righteous, for we are made in the image of God, who is gentle and wise, witty and loving, generous, forgiving, compassionate and kind.

Because we really don’t have the whole truth, the Spirit will be heard only when we are together, listening to one another in love.

We are not added to a particular church flock in order to be in the “right” group, but in order to learn, with Christ, to love others and lay down our lives for the world.