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Jesus calls us to turn away from pathways of judgement and condemnation and to follow him on the harder path of love and new life.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Jesus (Page 10)
Jesus leads us into a joyous and healthy way of living that avoids both constricting legalism and destructive libertarianism.
God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.
To grow up well, children need to be anchored to a broad community with shared values, which nevertheless allows for individual differences.
Our readiness to welcome and celebrate Christ is integral to his becoming present and active among us.
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.
There are many stories in the Bible that can appear to portray God as involved in terrorist acts, but Jesus invites us to read them in new ways.
Trying to establish our own righteousness burdens us with divisiveness and hostility, but Jesus offers us rest and freedom.
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.
The crucified and risen Jesus teaches us to interpret the whole Bible through his eyes.
The stories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on various mountain tops reveals a process of God’s self-revelation as the one who loves us and suffers for us.
Jesus calls us to model ourselves on him to embrace a new pattern of full humanity rather than just constrain the worst excesses of an old failed humanity.
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).