Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

All-in commitment is unfashionable, but it is often what God needs from us to allow the richest blessings to flow.

In baptism we follow Jesus in being “ordained” and empowered for mission.

An adaptation of the First Kontakia on the Life of Christ, a sung or chanted sermon by the great sixth-century poet and singer, St Romanos the Melodist.

The childhood picture of Jesus’ development calls us to ensure that our relationship with God is our primary allegiance, our first responsibility and the foundation of our identity.

In the nativity we see the light of living grace, in all its vulnerability, shining into the darkness of the world’s violence and divisiveness.

Celebrating God is not to be a denial of reality, but a faith-filled reaching out for a new reality.

If the message of Christmas is real, then our preparations for it need to be radically life-changing.

Faced with the decline and disintegration of the Church, we are called to offer ourselves to God as the new branch who faithfully carry God’s love and mercy into a new era.

Perhaps amidst the increasingly depressing state of the world, Jesus is calling us to learn the path of faithfulness from those who never win.

Jesus affirms generous giving, but he also condemns the religious exploitation of generous givers.

Jesus’s primary aim was not saving us for heaven after we die, but establishing a culture of whole-hearted loved in the here and now.

Christ’s grief gathers up our griefs and achieves the promise of a day when tears will be no more.