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Jesus recognises that there are different ways of interpreting the Bible that lead to different understandings of God and of following God, and he demonstrates the principles by which he would have us read it.
As creatures made in the image of God, imitation of God is the pathway to fullness of life.
The self-emptying of Jesus reveals both his divinity and the pathway to our full humanity.
A sense of shame can be God’s invitation to accept healing and new life.
Jesus sends the Holy Spirit as a Defence Counsel to defend us against the demonic accusations that trouble and disempower us.
The glory of Christ’s love is seen when it perseveres with those who shun it, betray it, or abuse it.
Our allegiance to Christ and our citizenship of his Realm take priority over those to our local culture, but that doesn’t rule out a continuing love of our homeland and tribe.
In a moment of transfiguration we glimpse the weightiness of Jesus and his mission, and we are ourselves transfigured, becoming people of greater substance.
Jesus says to each one of us “I am the new wine. Feed on me”.
We remain blind to much of what Jesus would have us see until we allow him to open our eyes to see through the eyes of others.
Taking up your cross is about a willingness to pay the price of following Jesus and living out your baptism. It is not a generalised stoicism.
God created everything and destined everything to be part of the one glorious story of God’s love and grace, and through Jesus, God draws us back into the story.
When we encounter Jesus, we are seeing the truth about God and the truth about life as it is meant to be lived. To embrace that truth will put us at odds with the world, but on the pathway to fullness of life.
The risen Christ and his word are often revealed in the words and actions of a stranger. Sometimes we are called to welcome and heed the stranger; and sometimes we are called to be the faithful stranger to others.
Faith in the risen Christ is always a physical thing, experienced and expressed in physical ways.
Jesus’s unique priesthood ensures that he is able to help us, and his solidarity with us in suffering ensures that he will help us.
God’s love for us is so great that God will do anything to give us a way out of the self-condemnation and self-destruction of continuing to live in conformity with the world’s ways.
Jesus is angered by our trivialising of religion that inoculates us against the claims of a holy God, and calls us to clean out the crassness and commercialism and approach God on God’s terms.
When we glimpse the fullness of what could be, we are called to the tough work of bridging the gap between here and there.
God is with us to comfort and revive us in the face of horror, but also to challenge us to turn things around.