In Baptism, Christ has united us with himself in his death to sin and his resurrection to radically new life.
In Baptism, Christ has united us with himself in his death to sin and his resurrection to radically new life.
You might have been written off as a dead loss (even by yourself), but only respond to the call of Christ, and you will live!
Christ is so present we loose the ability to see him. We need to worship to recover our sight.
The encounter with the resurrected crucified Jesus enables us to see the absolute love, mercy and non-vengefulness of God.
The risen Christ confronts us with both the gruesome consequences of our violence and the terrifying shock of grace.
The death of Christ strips us bare, but in his resurrection we are clothed in Christ and become participants in his resurrection life.
When hopes have been extinguished and all is despair, God comes back.
The message of Pentecost is the message of Pascha – Christ is risen and, in him, we are liberated from our captivity to the spirits of death, fear, despair, and division, and freed to dance to the Holy Spirit’s tune.
Jesus’s resurrection was a sign which declared that Jesus’ cause was God’s cause, that Jesus’ values were God’s values, that Jesus’ people were God’s people.
The risen Christ is extravagantly generous and excruciatingly unwilling to settle for pious platitudes in return.
The experience of the resurrected Christ may not be as instantly transformative as we’ve often thought, but those who seek Christ’s self-revelation will grow into his mission.
Jesus promises that if we will face our deepest fear – the loss of our very souls – and if we will trust in his love, then we shall live, even though we die.
The resurrection has broken open many old certainties, and our ethics must now be grounded in the new things God is doing, characterised by radically inclusive love, rather than in the old restrictions.
The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
As the victim of the ultimate in human evil, the risen Christ is the One who can offer the complete forgiveness, to us, and through us to the rest of the world.
The Transfiguration points us back to Jesus’ baptism and forward to his resurrection, and reiterates that the only way from one to the other is the way of the cross.
By preparing ourselves to die with Christ, we are raised and transfigured, new people with a new vocation.
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.
The resurrection of Jesus is about the in-breaking of something which is so new, so different, so unheard of, that it changes things so entirely that we will never again become captive to all that is predictable, or ‘necessary,’ or ‘fated’.
Christ’s story – the crucifixion of the truly good and its resurrection and coming victory – is the whole story of God’s work in the world and the whole story of the Bible.