Joel calls upon people to rend their hearts and not their garments and return to God in true repentance. God promises restoration in response to repentance.
How might a community respond to natural disaster? The prophet Joel suggests in the first instance lament.
In this Psalm of praise David uses the experience of a violent storm to praise God as the Lord of Creation as well as alluding to Ancient Near Eastern myths of the storm god slaying the sea dragon of chaos and death.
In an epidemic of loneliness friendship is a balm for the soul. This sermon explores some of the challenges and blessings of friendship, and the extraordinary gift of friendship with God in Jesus.
According to a recent survey, people are more afraid of getting dementia than cancer. Who will I be when I've forgotten who I think I am? This sermon explores the riches the Bible and the Church offer for facing dementia and ageing in general.
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.
Questions of "Who am I?" and "Where do I belong?" are key to our humanity. This sermon explores how in Baptism and the Church God gives us an answer.
Because Jesus is fully human, like us in every way, yet without sin, he shows us how to be human. But more than that, because he is fully human, his saving work touches every part of our humanity.