Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.
Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.
By lifting us out our enthralment to evil and death, Jesus sets us free from all that corrupts us and opens us to share real life with him.
Jesus wants to lift us beyond the deadening conformity that seeks to silence us and confine us to a stunted life.
God promises the best for us if we follow the way of Jesus, and faith is actively trusting that that pathway will indeed be the way of life.
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.
God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.
Jesus does not burden us with crippling moral expectations, but humbly takes our burdens on himself and frees us to relax into the life of God.
The Ten Commandments are not about creating a system of law and punishment. They are a window into the stories and the lifestyle of the culture of God.
Jesus is the door through which we pass to receive life – life in his name – a life of authenticity, a life of freedom, a life of purpose.
God’s mission is much bigger than us, and to play our part in it, we need to live freely and fearlessly and maintain a humble and faithful connection with the traditions and wisdom of the wider Church.
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.
Jesus has freed us to be all we were created to be and to live life to the full, not to indulge the impulses that will lead us straight back into captivity.
Salvation is about being set free to live life in all its fulness, even in the midst of conflict and suffering.
The resurrection of Jesus has made it possible for everyone to live fully, now, but not everyone feels ready to live.
God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.
The life and death of Jim Stynes give a contemporary picture of what it means to give your life away.
Becoming Christlike takes discipline and commitment and practice, but the goal of fullness of life in Christ is worth whatever it takes.
The self-emptying of Jesus reveals both his divinity and the pathway to our full humanity.
When fidelity to Christ’s call is failing to bear the expected fruit, but is bearing good fruit, however humble, the call may be to persevere in hope.
God is so totally about life, life and more life, that we have trouble comprehending anything of what God is on about.