Sickness and sin are similar and related disorders from which Jesus comes to to heal and save us.
Sickness and sin are similar and related disorders from which Jesus comes to to heal and save us.
Jesus calls us to move beyond hostile identity politics, whether shaped by Sabbath keeping or #Outrage, and to welcome a new culture of love, forgiveness and welcome.
When Jesus heals, he is not seeking to minister solely to the individual, but to heal a sick culture, and the culture we live in needs his healing.
My journey has brought me to a place where I have begun to know the rest that Jesus offers.
Jesus died an apparent failure, but in his resurrection, the failure’s power over us is broken for ever.
Jesus subverts our concepts of sin and offers to open our eyes and free us from it all.
Every coin you are holding already belongs to God: every bitterness, every hurt, every disappointment. Do not hold a single one back.
Jesus wants to lift us beyond the deadening conformity that seeks to silence us and confine us to a stunted life.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that another person can do to you that can make you unclean or defiled in the eyes of God.
Despite our often minimal vision for ourselves, and our feeling of not being important to God, Jesus Christ is committed to bringing us to the fullness of life and wholeness.
Jesus urges us to take stock, to recognise the sicknesses which warp us and the demons which colonise our hearts and our minds, to renounce them so that we become free to minister to one another, and to proclaim the good news in our words and our lives.
Jesus leads us into a joyous and healthy way of living that avoids both constricting legalism and destructive libertarianism.
God is all ready to heal and free us, but organised religion is not always so quick to agree.
Answers to prayer are not a controllable formula, but we are called to pray as part of our participation in God’s quest to bring healing, wholeness and life to a world of chaos.
The capacity to understand and follow the way of Jesus is a miraculous gift.
In Christ we are set free from all that would oppress us in order that we might be free to live in gracious and life-giving service of God and others.
Jesus and the Canaanite woman bring us along with them into a new understanding of what defiles, and what makes us clean and whole.
A sense of shame can be God’s invitation to accept healing and new life.
We remain blind to much of what Jesus would have us see until we allow him to open our eyes to see through the eyes of others.
The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.