Sermons

God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.

To grow up well, children need to be anchored to a broad community with shared values, which nevertheless allows for individual differences.

We are welcoming a baby born into occupied territories to a fiercely holy young woman, and we are recognising in that baby the hope of liberation.

Joseph models a courageous willingness to be stripped of his sense of entitlement that he might become all God wanted him to be.

Preparing ourselves for the coming Lord is not a matter of rigorous rule keeping, but rules can help us learn the appropriate new way of being.

Advent is preparing us for the coming of the Lord, that already and not-yet event for which people have lived and worked and prayed for millennia.

Jesus calls us to courageously follow him through a world of apparently apocalyptic violence towards the advent of hope and peace.

In our desire to see mercy and compassion expressed for the needy, we must beware of falling into desiring the exact opposite for those who have not shown mercy and compassion.

You cannot serve two masters; for a slave will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other.

Our readiness to welcome and celebrate Christ is integral to his becoming present and active among us.

Jesus does not burden us with crippling moral expectations, but humbly takes our burdens on himself and frees us to relax into the life of God.

As we gather with the saints of all times to worship the crucified victim, we are immersed in a culture that is so at odds with the values of this world that those who truly embrace it just appear odd for now, but strangely and alluringly familiar too.