Sermons

In Christ, God acts for the salvation of all, and in Christ, we are called to pray for all (even politicians!).

One of the most controversial aspects of Jesus’ message was that it moved all the fences. Jesus redrew the boundaries of the Kingdom of God to include very definitely those who previously had been excluded. He blew away the social and geographical limitations imposed by the pious Pharisees & other religious leaders. According to Jesus, God’s kingdom knew nothing of the political, social or religious boundaries placed on it by these groups.

The love of Christ draws us into a radically deeper set of love relationships, but don’t expect them to be understood by those outside the faith.

When Jesus invites us to join the feast, and to invite others as well, some people need reassuring to get them in the room, while others need challenging to make space, but the invitation is there for all of us and it’s genuine.

The sacred is all around us and within us, but don’t make the mistake of trying to regulate it.

We are faced with a choice, a crisis, each time we hear the Word, which slices through our souls, our families, our values, and demands our commitment without reservation.

Christ calls us to continue to grow in the measure of our love, prayer and good works.

We seek to live and practice non-violence as the only way to overcome injustice, persecution, tyranny and violence and build cultures of peace.

Religious zeal often turns violent, but the revelation of Jesus Christ makes known a God who repudiates our violence and sets us free from it.

The unity of the churches, as an expression of reconciliation, is integral to the message of good news in Christ.

Jesus gives us a peace that is not secured at the expense of victims, and he sends a Defence Counsel to lead the defence of the world’s victims.

Jesus is the model for rightly honouring the victims by exposing and resisting the systems that sacrificed them.