Sermons

Jesus calls us to love and care for the world’s victims, and to refuse to participate in making more of them (even from among the victimisers).

Our anticipation of new life in Christ, though not removing all grief, allows us to find hope in the mercy and love of God.

Jesus recognises that there are different ways of interpreting the Bible that lead to different understandings of God and of following God, and he demonstrates the principles by which he would have us read it.

As creatures made in the image of God, imitation of God is the pathway to fullness of life.

The pathway to a life of joy and gratitude is to imitate Jesus in filling our minds with things which are worthy, honourable, merciful and loving.

A sermon on accepting the gifts of God

The self-emptying of Jesus reveals both his divinity and the pathway to our full humanity.

We want to be rewarded as we think we deserve, but God wants to give us everything.

Are we, individually and together, focused on the things that we can be doing, that will enable us to embrace and nurture the growth of Christ’s values, withstanding opposition to them?

We have to choose between being squeezed into the world’s mould or re-moulded from within by God.

Jesus and the Canaanite woman bring us along with them into a new understanding of what defiles, and what makes us clean and whole.

God gives extravagantly and abundantly, but in order to experience it, we need to begin sharing it.