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Grace

Sunday December 22

Man in blue shirt reading a book in a courtyard

The book I have given away most and why: The Rev’d Sam Sigamani

“This book inspires me because it reminds me that being baptised and ordained does not fulfil or justify my status as a Christ follower. I am called to take up my cross and proclaim Christ’s grace, and this costly grace must be lived in my daily discipleship,” says The Rev’d Sam Sigamani from The Parish of Wynnum

Generosity and grace…well-seasoned by wisdom

“Somehow in Christ we are called to a new way of relating that is deeply grounded in the relationship we have with God. It’s not the transactional: you do something to me or for me, and – in response – I do something to you or for you. Instead, I think we are called to proactive generosity and grace…well-seasoned by wisdom,” says Bishop Cam Venables in this recent homily

Creating a grace zone

“…inclusion is part of a culture that welcomes and nurtures who people are and not who we want to make them,” says The Rev’d Michael Stalley, from St Bartholomew’s, Mt Gravatt

The Grace of Grice

By popular request, anglican focus has published this equally poignant and humorous homily that was given by our Archbishop at the consecration of Peter Grice as Bishop of Rockhampton on Wednesday night

"We cannot surround our love with barbed wire"

“From Dover in England to Queensland in Australia, the tides rise and fall on innumerable beaches and only the groan of the shingle testifies to the lives lost at sea,” says Archbishop Justin Welby as he speaks about the world’s more than 75 million displaced people in this Washington National Cathedral sermon

Sunday Devotion: 12 July 2020, Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Cultivating grace in faith, hope, love and trust

Grace

Bishop Jonathan Holland from St Francis College explores the origins, meaning and virtue of ‘grace’: “Next time you hear the word ‘grace’ remember it is not just a free gift from God, it is God’s beautiful way of acting in the world, a way we are called to imitate”