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If we delight in shaming and punishing wrongdoers, we will not recognise the scandalous love and mercy revealed in Jesus, but instead find ourselves being harshly judged by an outraged condemning god who we have created in our own image.
Election week sheds new light on how we can participate with Jesus in bringing satanic principalities and powers crashing down.
The gospel of love and grace revealed by Jesus is always at risk of being distorted into a false gospel of ‘holy’ hostility.
The love of God seeks us out, even when we least deserve it, and then calls us to love others similarly.
In Christ, God is made manifest to the world as King, Light and Lover.
We grow into the likeness of Christ as we model ourselves on him, and he is a model of growth rather than a model of static perfection.
In an us-and-them world, people hope to find a way to get God on their side, but Jesus confounds our expectations of God siding against others.
Only when the world models itself on the self-sacrificial love and mercy we have seen in Jesus will it be saved from the cycles of apocalyptic violence and chaos.
Most suffering is random and unfair, but Jesus has joined us in it to lead us into new life.
In Christ we have been given a new identity that dissolves the labels of first and two-thirds world, and invites us all to be poor.
Jesus’s invitation is radically open and inclusive, and we need to guard carefully against our own culturally conditioned instincts to start narrowing and policing it.
The things that make Jesus the perfect leader to lead us into new life are probably the same things that would make us turn our backs on him and seek to follow others.
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.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that another person can do to you that can make you unclean or defiled in the eyes of God.
We only reliably recognise and combat evil by listening to Jesus and taking his wisdom into our hearts.
Jesus rejects the opportunity to fulfil our hopes and expectations in order that he might give us more than we thought possible.
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.
Satan casts out satan all the time in our divisive attempts to protect ourselves by demonising and expelling others.
We all have different roles within the ongoing ministry of Christ, but that ministry is ultimately not dependent on the success of individual leaders.
We shall be ourselves when we are able to surrender ourselves to Christ and say ‘not my will, but yours’.