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.
It’s our place to be within, and part of, creation and to love it as God loves it, and to learn to be ready to stand with others in their place of need.
The impossible love and grace of God invite us to participate in the life of God despite our circumstances, but we often get stuck in trying to find meaning in the circumstances.
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’s gracious acceptance is so free from favouritism that we find it scandalous and daunting.
God’s love for us is so all-consuming that he accepts us as soon as we accept him and is happy for our behaviours to be sorted out in the transforming experience of love.
Jesus invites us to find our communion in the violence done to him instead of in doing violence to others.
Jesus becomes a victim of our systems of feeding on one another in order to forgive us, set us free, and nourish us for life.
When we recognise Christ’s presence in the Eucharistic liturgy, we will bring the sick in search of healing.
In his suffering death, Jesus calls us to solidarity with all who suffer, and in his complete lack of vengefulness, the risen Christ offers the hope of healing from our violence.
The church is formed when we ask Christ to rule over us and make a covenant with him to define the terms.
The Christian life is often lived against overwhelming odds, but the presence of Christ and some basic godly resources make it a good bet.
The Kingdom of God grows like a weed – seemingly insignificant and unwanted – but it ends up with a place of refuge for everyone.
The God who we encounter in such different ways is, nevertheless, the one God, and we are called to share in the life of this one God.
Love is a gift which we invited to become at home in, receiving and enjoying it, not questioning, measuring and regulating it.
In baptism we are adopted into a new family that is radically inclusive of those who have been cut off.
Goodness and mercy are with us now – and we have to learn to accept them.