Hope is the melody of the future – Faith dances to it today
When we glimpse the fullness of what could be, we are called to the tough work of bridging the gap between here and there.
The unfailing love of God is with us, even in the tragedy, confusion, and anguished questions and doubts.
God is with us to comfort and revive us in the face of horror, but also to challenge us to turn things around.
Jesus meets us with not just words of hope, but with actions of authority and integrity.
We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.
Let us keep the festival by standing confidently, and affirming our faith in the God who takes flesh among us, today!
In God’s coming reign, things we find impossible to reconcile will be reconciled.
Jesus, the coming king, will rise above power mongering and tenderly lead the people into paradise
Christ uses his power to lift up others, but we are prone to misuse power to exalt ourselves.
Love is both a command and an eschatological promise. The promise undergirds our striving to obey the command.
When greed and fear demand that we give our attention to money, Jesus calls us to reclaim the image of God within us, and offer ourselves to God.
There are no passengers in the Kingdom – those who accept the call must go on to clothe themselves in righteousness.
The ten commandments are not a measure of our moral accomplishment, but a gift offered to God by a grateful covenant people.
The wilderness can seem harsh and threatening, but God is there, ready to nourish us with the bread of heaven.
When everything seems to be against us, God will open up for us a way to freedom and life.
Jesus commits himself to the path of redemptive suffering in preference to either fight or flight, and he calls us to follow him in that commitment.
The once and for all sacrifice of Christ and our living sacrifice of ourselves are becoming one sacrifice as we and Christ become one.
Jesus will be there for us in the midst of the storms, but we are to stay together in his boat rather than jump ship in a misguided “display of faith”.
Reconciliation begins with my ‘self’, and then, as I let go the fears, the guilt, the self justification, I might just possibly become an agent for peace.