Sermons on Life of Christ (Page 4)

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Turning Points

While Jesus was not received in the Samaritan village as James and John had expected them to be Jesus responded with calm and non-violence.

The Foolishness of Christ Crucified

In some way which we cannot fathom, Christ crucified goes directly to the heart of the darkness of the human condition, and turns everything inside out, making it right – bringing the Christ light to the heart of darkness.

Recognizing God

Mary Magdalene did not recognize Jesus until he spoke to her. We often miss God because we expect God’s voice to be bigger or more cosmic, yet if God is as close as our breath then God’s voice may be as quiet as our breath. The amazing thing about the resurrection is how it shows us God’s unquenchable, astonishing love. Let us decide to live every day in the full knowledge of that love.

Good Friday Sermon

Christ crucified is a manifestation of God’s unquenchable and unfathomable love for humanity. Why exactly the Christ dove into the heart of human darkness we cannot say with any certainty except that God used it to turn our darkness into the light of the resurrection.

Reconciled with God

The Prodigal Son is a wonderful story of the soul’s return to God, and it may also be seen as a story of how Jesus Christ, both human and God, in being reconciled to God, also reconciles human and divine. And as the ones who live into that reconciliation, how we live, think and pray changes the world.

The Great I AM

Do you think of God as a rock? or an eagle? or a hen with chicks? or as water? The metaphors we use for God make a difference to how we pray and live. I encourage us to think of God as constantly encouraging us to take the best route, and our prayer assists in this infolding process.

Life as a spiral

Many of us experience life as a spiral either down into more difficulty or up as we get closer to God. Sometimes in that process it seems that evil prevails – as it does right now in Ukraine – but Jesus went toe-to-toe with evil and came up as the risen, resurrected Christ. So we know that nothing, even death, can separate us from the love of God.

Transcendence

It seems that our ancestors experienced moments of transcendence – of heaven breaking through – when the scriptures were read. What makes transcendence more likely? How can we prepare ourselves for God to reveal Godself in our lives?

The New Relationship

Luke 2:1-20 I wonder what the shepherds thought they would find when they went into Bethlehem? The angel said that a baby will be a sign but the shepherds didn’t say to each other, “Let’s go and see the baby” – they said “Let us go now to Bethlehem and see this thing that has taken place, which the Lord has made known to us.” I wonder what they were expecting? I also wonder how they found the right place…