What most endures is Christianity’s ability to re-invent itself.

We believe in life before death.

Who are we, gathered together here? We are those who are being shaped and renewed in our life together by the Crucified and Risen Christ.

We are shaped by our scars.

In the cross of Jesus we see the cost of our sin and the depth of your love: in humble hope and fear may we place at his feet all that we have and all that we are.

Each preacher chose a phrase or sentence from the Eucharistic liturgy for Lent and Passiontide and offered a reflection on that.

God’s call to us is to be people of action, working that all may flourish. To be people who dare to look beyond the present suffering, and be generous in acts of love, and trusting in God.

Trust that one day there will be an end to the madness we are witnessing

A human calling to approach the divine.

On Ash Wednesday this week we entered, once again, the Church season of Lent, traditionally a season of prayer, fasting and alms giving. These can all be very good and helpful in re-balancing aspects of our life that may have become unbalanced in some way, but I think this season, and today’s Gospel description of Jesus’ time in the wilderness may point to a more profound challenge, or opportunity.

We sell ourselves and God short if our goal is transformation.

Faith is not a list of commands; it is an invitation to exercise our imagination so that in the dust of which we are made the possibilities of heaven are discovered and lived out.