Sermons

Salvation: Another Bloody Religious Word

We are not saved ‘from’ an evil world. Rather we are invited to enter into the suffering of the world and to do something about it. In so doing we are “taken into” the mystery of God at the same time. To put it simply, if you enter into another person’s suffering, you are entering into God.  There is no separation from – more so a sense of engaging with. You will be experiencing salvation as you do. Salvation becomes a living paradox.

The Joyful Being of God’s Love: A sermon by the Rev’d Kaye Pitman for the consecration of Sarah Plowman

I hope the Church that will benefit from the work of our new bishop will be more like the Australian River Red Gums. Sometimes their life-giving water cannot even be seen – only a track of rough, gnarled shady sentinels indicating secret channels winding across our outback landscapes. Their roots delve to the depths for the huge created sea below. Their foliage has supplied shelter, material, food, and medicine for many thousands of years for our first inhabitants. Those ‘red gum churches’ shared God’s love, long before the ‘God boxes’ arrived!