Sermons from March 2022
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.
Being Like Chicks
God’s presence is everywhere, always creating the best possible options in every situation, even in the messiness of the war in Ukraine. But it is up to humanity to use its freewill to respond to the movement of God. We can do this through prayer. Not only can we do it but we have a responsibility to pray, and also to foster serenity as we trust that God will use our prayers to bring about the best possible solutions. We are as safe as chicks under their mother’s wing.
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.
We are mortal
Tonight we remember that we are mortal. That we are made of stardust and to dust we shall return, carbon to carbon. And why do we do this, year after year? As if our unexpected aches and pains were not enough to remind us that we are mortal!