Sermons

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.

Serving Christ as king challenges our use of power and politics and questions where our ultimate loyalty and security lie.

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.

The capacity to understand and follow the way of Jesus is a miraculous gift.

In calling us into the culture of God, Jesus calls us to give up our addictions to tribalism, competitive grief, and selective compassion.

Jesus calls us to embrace God, life, and one another with joy, delight, hope, and grace, not with heartlessness cloaked in legalities.

The book of Esther is like a joke that has aged badly, enabling us to see how righteous anger at anti-semitism can become its horrifying mirror image.

Jesus offers himself to us to serve and bless us, and calls us to do the same in serving and blessing others.

Jesus carries and embodies the Biblical tradition of wisdom, calling us to let go of our self-focussed lives and expand into new lives of wisdom, love and compassion.