The Pentecost TEACHER
Today is Pentecost – our celebration of the Holy Spirit being poured out into all of creation! We first encounter the Holy Spirit at the very beginning of the Bible, in the creation narratives of Genesis, where we’re told of the sacred hovering [i] of God’s Spirit over all creation, and then also as God breathed [ii] life into the first of humanity. [iii] Later in the Old Testament we read of how the Holy Spirit came upon certain people…
Earth-Shaking Events
Like an earthquake, our ground can shift. How will this transform us?
Called Alongside
It’s our mandate to help all the world to become more ‘God-aware!’
LOVE! What is that?
How have you known love in your life?
Mothering Sunday
On Mother’s Day, we remember how the mothering spirit makes room for each of us.
Our Necessary Failure: Room Enough!
Do you also find it difficult to trust someone who hasn’t faced failure?
A Recovering Skeptic
Doubting Thomas has a certain appeal to all of us because Thomas is an honest person and honesty is attractive.
Heavenly Rhythm
It’s the life-rhythm sealed for us and all creation in Christ’s birthing and dying and rising…
Great Expectations: Becoming a Palm Sunday People
That Palm Sunday crowd: who do they represent for us today?
An incarnational reality
Our Christian walk is much more about our awareness of sacredness in everything than it is about us having to do things!
This is who I am!
Most of us have never really met ourselves…We’ve met who we pretend to be, and who others have said who we are, or even who we’ve aspired to be, but not ourselves!
In the beginning was the Word
In this final sermon of the series I have called a ‘helicopter level’ overview of the Bible we begin with John’s enigmatic, poetic, mysterious statement.
Letters to the early church
In seeking to understand the origin and meaning of our faith and its influence on our daily lives, we are engaged in an unceasing task.
The Gospels
We come now in our helicopter view of the Bible to the gospels – the four books that lie at the centre of our faith.
God teach us how to pray
The structure of the Protestant Old Testament places five books near the middle that are called Books of Wisdom. These five books close out the historical section of the Old Testament.