Book: John

In the face of a politics grounded in nationalist arrogance and fake news, Jesus proclaims a ‘kingdom’ grounded in shared humanity and truth.

Jesus confronts us with our cannibalistic behaviour in order that we might follow him into a saving communion with God and one another.

Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.

The Holy Spirit fills the church with gifts, not only for its own sake, but so that it might be a gift to the world.

Jesus’s priestly identity and mission have been passed on to us and are to be seen in our prayer and our lives.

Rather than close the book on who can and cannot be accepted into the church, the Bible calls us to follow Jesus on a path of continually expanding inclusion.

Tonight we farewelled Peter from our congregation as he moves north, and he shared his reflections of what his time in this church has meant to him.

In his own demonstration of self-sacrificial love, Jesus has shown us what God is like and called us to love God and one another by loving likewise.

When we expected to be shamed as we have shamed others, we are shocked and saved by the unexpected mercy of the crucified and risen Jesus.

The life that Jesus calls us too will not be found and enjoyed until we give up trying to engineer the life we dreamed we were supposed to be living.

In the face of tragedy, we naturally cry out “Why?” Jesus meets us in the suffering and helps us find the path of life.

The light of Christ reaches the world through those who will bear the wounds of love.