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An evolving understanding of being God’s chosen people reveals the call to focus on being a blessing to others and the world.
Epiphany reminds us that we have no monopoly on the truth and always have more to learn from people of other faiths and backgrounds.
At New Year we are called to see God’s grand vision of fullness and abundance for all the world, and reset our sense of mission accordingly.
The hope born at Christmas does not erase, deny, or hide from the horror of a violent world, but meets us in the midst of it.
A Christmas Message from the leader of the Baptist World Alliance
Confused feelings in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre are a window into the ongoing need for healing and transformation in our own hearts.
Isaiah 35 declares joy and courage and gladness, for those stuck in the wilderness and dry lands.
Joy for the weak hands, the feeble knees and the fearful hearts.
Hope is a courageous and active stance towards life which is nourished in those who attend to the voice of God in Scripture.
The coming Christ will do whatever he can to get through our defences.
To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority and to critique all power-mongering.
Jesus warns us that disasters are ubiquitous and do not all herald the end of time, and calls us to persevere in the life of love even when we are blamed and persecuted.
A Biblical drama exploring the 6th century Babylonian Exile through the eyes of two people who lived through it and through the Biblical records.
As societies collapse under the weight of their own sin, God’s promises stand firm and we are called to persevere in faith and righteousness.
The saints of God are engaged in a war between conflicting empires battling for control of the world, but Jesus has radically transformed our understanding of how we fight.
When we respond to others with judgement and contempt instead of empathy and compassion, we fail to understand God and live God’s love for others.
The relationship between God’s work and our work in salvation is not a puzzle to be solved, but a mystery to be lived in prayer and faithful discipleship.
Jesus constantly seeks to upend our prejudices in order to breakdown and overcome our divisive tribalism.
Healthy spirituality requires an honesty about our experience of pain and confusion in the real world, and that means that lamentation is a part of healthy prayer.
Even in the face of a catastrophic collapse of the world as we know it, God calls us to imagine and invest in a beautiful future.
Hope for our troubled world requires turning anger into tears, resentment into prayers, and financial power into generosity.