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Many of us want the faith story to go according to our script, but the call of Jesus crashes through our dominant religious and cultural understandings and aspirations.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Jesus (Page 15)
Those who insist that faith must satisfy their every ideology may miss out, while those who simply yoke themselves to Jesus will find the freedom and peace for which they yearn.
The world is full of offers of poisoned cups to quench our thirst, but Jesus offers us his own Spirit to sustain us in the wilderness.
The wound of abandonment which haunts every human being will find its healing in Christ who is everywhere present as the authority and power of God.
In baptism we are joined to Christ and we now live as he leads, and celebrate the freedom of others to do so also.
When we call Jesus King, we may not know what we’re saying.
Christ is our high priest, the sole mediator between the world and God, but as the body of Christ we share in Christ’s task of reconciling earth and heaven.
Because of who Jesus is, we are both naked and vulnerable before him, and confident to approach God. Our only fear is of ourselves!
The challenge of relinquishing selfish desire is a crucial key to a deeper journey into the life of Christ.
We need to be willing to hear truth whether it comes from an expected source or an unexpected source.
The extent of God’s grace constantly astounds us as it floods over ever social barrier we erect.
Encounters with the risen Christ open our minds rather than narrow our theology.
Knowledge can be used to destroy or to liberate. In Jesus we see one whose teaching and actions are an integrated liberating message.
Although the choice to repent can be characterised in black and white terms, it usually feels like a choice for one risky joy over several safer ones, but it’s worth it!
Each human being is an icon of Christ and so the respect and care with which we deal with others is an expression of our devotion to Christ.
Will we live out allegiance to the state, the economy, the mass media, consumerism, status-driven values and wealth, or to God, to the new community, to upside-down kingdom values and to a radical alternative which is the source of hope and transformation?
Icons, as representations of the incarnation rather than images of God, can serve to open us to God rather than becoming alternatives to God.
The Word has become flesh to redeem us. Now our redeemed response must become flesh.
The search for meaning and fullness of life without cost, risk or struggle is futile, but the Kingdom is still a free gift, given by God, to all who will accept it.
Our perception of things can be distorted by the context in which we see them. Jesus constantly challenges our misperceptions by challenging us to look at things through a different frame. It is only by constant reference to Jesus and to the ways that he looked at things that we learn to see ourselves and our surrounds more realistically.