Sermons

We are called to take sides in a conflict between the prophet of love and peace and the prophets of hatred and violence.

The story of Jonah nurtures our own life of faith, revealing that God can work his purposes out even in and through people like Jonah and us.

A modern paraphrase of a homily for the Feast of the Nativity by St Leo the Great.

God is always acting, but often in surprising and paradoxical ways. The ways of God often reverse human expectations.

In the midst of horror and despair, Christ arrives with love enough, with peace enough, with hope enough to make things very, very, very different.

The Advent season is a gift that illumines our present with light from our promised goal, to shape us as a people of patient and vigilant faithfulness.

The hope that empowers us to maintain our counter-cultural obedience to Christ, is that the One who will eventually rule over all is the One who offers himself as a suffering servant of all.

The Coming Christ will reward and celebrate with those he finds having a go and making the most of all they have been given, not those who fearfully play it safe.

Authority in the Christian community derives not from worldly status or popularity contests, but from a humble willingness to imitate Christ in his devotion to God and his service of others.

Our faith is about grace – that God comes to meet us in the truth of who we are. God is far less threatened by the darkness in our lives than we are!

We worship our God with words and images from the imagination of human beings, believing that God can take even what we say and do speak to us in a voice nor our own and images not our own.

In the elusive quest to know Christ, spiritual disciplines are a valuable means, but can also easily degenerate into idols.