The once and for all sacrifice of Christ and our living sacrifice of ourselves are becoming one sacrifice as we and Christ become one.
The once and for all sacrifice of Christ and our living sacrifice of ourselves are becoming one sacrifice as we and Christ become one.
We are faced with a choice, a crisis, each time we hear the Word, which slices through our souls, our families, our values, and demands our commitment without reservation.
Religious zeal often turns violent, but the revelation of Jesus Christ makes known a God who repudiates our violence and sets us free from it.
Extravagant devotion to the crucified Christ is the foundation of our compassion and care for other victims of the world’s callousness.
The glory that has been seen in Jesus can shine forth in us, but there will be obstructions to be purged and commitments to be made first.
God is love, and so love is the only real measure of spiritual maturity or accomplishment.
Recognising Jesus as Lord requires such a reversal of conventional values that it cannot but dangerously transform us.
With Jesus as our pattern, we find a new identity in our uncompromising allegiance to God’s ways.
To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority.
God offers to make us his children, a position that may not appeal to our autonomous ambitions, but which offers honour and security.
Jesus leads the way in exposing and opposing violence, no matter what the cost, and life is found in following his lead.
God calls us to live out the gospel, not just to think about, not just to pray about it, but to live it. Jesus called us to action, not to change their thinking but to change their lives.
The power of sin over us will not be broken by trying harder, but by pursuing Christ and Christ alone.
The way to enter the life of God is found in Jesus, in relationship with the incarnate life of God.
In the pain of discouragement, God keeps whispering to us: I am still with you, and the future has possibilities you have not dreamed of. So take courage, keep at it, hold on, don’t give up.
Christian ascetic discipline is not about earning God’s acceptance, but about banishing the demons so that we can live life more fully in the here and now.
Extravagant grace can be terrifying because it asks nothing of us but a complete change of life!
In baptism Jesus submits himself to his God-given destiny and vocation, and it is by a similar submission to God, allowing Christ to live out his baptismal life in us and for us, that we have life and hope.
If we can lose ourselves in the worship of Christ, then Christ will come to fill our emptied egos with his own self which now dances in the freedom of God.
We voluntarily live a vowed life as a grateful response to God’s saving acts.