Sermons

When we truly encounter God in worship, we see everything in all its splendour and horror and are transformed for mission.

God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.

Jesus’s agenda, which we are called to follow, is about healing, liberating and gathering in the excluded, not purifying the community by excluding anyone.

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.

What difference does it make for us and in the world that The Word became flesh and made its dwelling among us?

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.

Young. Woman. Pregnant. Unmarried. How does Mary the mother of Jesus speak to you today?

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.