Tag Archives: Lent
Sermon: Who is welcome? Sinners.
We can come to God with all our messiness and sickness and failure, and know that we are welcome. God’s door is open to us, and all we need to do is walk through it. Our sins are forgiven. Continue reading
Sermon: On not being able to do the right thing
There are times in all our lives when we find that it isn’t the right time or place for us to do what we think is right, what we had planned, and we have to pause, take stock, change our minds. Continue reading
Sermon: God’s motherly love
In times of difficulty, post-Royal Commission, during congregational change, grieving the Christchurch massacre, as we walk with Jesus on the road to his death during Lent, we can rely on the God who loves us as a mother and protects us as a hen protects her chicks Continue reading
Sermon: Love and Solidarity
In Jesus God is acting in solidarity with humanity, and so be watching what Jesus does we can see what we are called to do; what it means to be human beings living in relationship with God. Continue reading
Sermon: Golden fonts and visits by night
It’s a private baptismal font made of gold. I want to repeat that: it’s a private baptismal font made of gold. Continue reading
Sermon: These things are not ‘sent to try us’
The question of why dreadful things happen to people remains, but the answer is never, ‘because God is testing us’. Continue reading
Newsletter: Spending Lent Wisely
Protestants stopped fasting in Lent. It became something that those Catholics over there did, and was looked at with suspicion Continue reading
Sermon: A hen in a world of foxes
… we live in a world full of foxes, and sometimes we desire more protection than a mother hen can offer. Continue reading
Sermon: Righteous without being self-righteous
Lent reminds us that our role as Christ’s followers is to seek to be righteous without being self-righteous, as difficult as that is. Continue reading
Sermon: Foolishness
We are called to proclaim Christ crucified; we are also called to follow him. In a world obsessed with status and success, we’re called to live simply, to risk failure, to topple accepted powers and interrupt accepted ritual. We are not to accept the way things are; we are to challenge and change them. Continue reading
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