Tag Archives: love

Sermon: What’s love got to do with it? Everything.

People should know when Christians are being persecuted by the good that we’re doing in response. Continue reading

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Reflection: Why I support Marriage Equality

today silence feels like cowardice. And if me being open about who I am can help even one young person feel better about who they are, then it’s worth it Continue reading

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Sermon: We can live out love

We can do more than we ever thought possible and live lives of astonishing love. Continue reading

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Sermon: For Asta and Matthew’s Wedding

the Church believes and has always believed that in the love between a married couple, as in any sort of love, we see God Continue reading

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Sermon: Christians behaving badly

I didn’t say in so many words, ‘You fool’, but I definitely implied it. Continue reading

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Sermon: Living as though the world were what it should be, to show it what it can be

But as Martin Luther King is quoted as saying: ‘The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice’ Continue reading

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Sermon: Jesus was serious about all that ‘love’ stuff

As I said last week, we are not God. We cannot love others as God loves us. We will always fail and fall short. But that doesn’t give us a reason not to try. Continue reading

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Sermon for Advent 4: Love

George Brandis famously said that people have the right to be bigots, and I’m going to go further and say that we are commanded to love bigots. Continue reading

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Sermon: We are the sheep that God loves passionately, crazily, extravagantly; we are the uniquely valuable coin, whose recovery causes such celebration.

Sermon for Williamstown 15th of September, 2010   Luke 15:1-10 In today’s two parables we find ourselves in the heart of Luke’s Gospel. Christianity would not be the faith we know if it wasn’t for these two stories and the … Continue reading

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