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The experience of the living Christ keeps pushing us to think even bigger in our attempts to explain him.
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The experience of the living Christ keeps pushing us to think even bigger in our attempts to explain him.
The Bible can be used to justify anything, but when it is approached humbly as a place of prayerful encounter with the risen Christ, it is alive with the breath of God and leads us to life.
Forgiving the way Jesus does will always be seen as not just disreputable, but even dangerous and criminal.
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Believing and following Jesus is about faith because certainty is impossible and doubts are unavoidable.
When we follow Christ in being pain-bearers, we are participating in the reconciliation of the world.
Those who, in Christ, have been set free to love as Jesus loves will no longer have their relationships with God or one another bounded or understood by law.
Being a follower of Jesus means honouring his authority by following his teachings and his example (something that has become surprisingly rare).
When God is understood through the revelation of Jesus and his pattern of relating, then we discover ourselves invited into generous and gracious solidarity with all creation.
A sermon on Psalm 23
True forgiveness, which we encounter most fully in the risen Christ, does not gloss over the past but revisits it fully and carefully that we may be fully set free from it.
Jesus leads us in the way of redemptive freedom before the violence of the world.
Although the Church and our nation might be stronger if they were more inclusive, the real call to inclusion is simply part of the call to faithfully reflect Christ.
Belonging to God does not exempt us from disasters that may come, although that is often what people hope and expect, but it does mean that they will not have the last word on us.
John calls us beyond insurance policy religion, but Jesus calls us still further into participation in God’s radical generosity to all the world.
The capacity to understand and follow the way of Jesus is a miraculous gift.
Jesus’s abolition of “us” and “them” categories is so radical that it seems almost impossible for us to comprehend and put into practice.
Jesus offers himself to us to serve and bless us, and calls us to do the same in serving and blessing others.
It is human nature to think that our ways are God’s ways, and so to shun those whose ways seem alien or disgusting to us, but Jesus calls us to recognise God at work in others, however different.
In Christ we are one with all flesh and blood, and so our struggle is not against any other people, but against the spirits and powers and forces which would divide people and make them enemies.