Love and What the Gospel Isn’t
Jesus’s primary aim was not saving us for heaven after we die, but establishing a culture of whole-hearted loved in the here and now.
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Life, Death and Tears
Christ’s grief gathers up our griefs and achieves the promise of a day when tears will be no more.
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When It All Becomes Clear
The capacity to understand and follow the way of Jesus is a miraculous gift.
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Clinging to Competitive Grief
In calling us into the culture of God, Jesus calls us to give up our addictions to tribalism, competitive grief, and selective compassion.
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Divorce, War, and Hugging Children
Jesus calls us to embrace God, life, and one another with joy, delight, hope, and grace, not with heartlessness cloaked in legalities.
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Did you hear the one about the Sex-goddess who fought Anti-Semitism?
The book of Esther is like a joke that has aged badly, enabling us to see how righteous anger at anti-semitism can become its horrifying mirror image.
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Missing the Point
Jesus offers himself to us to serve and bless us, and calls us to do the same in serving and blessing others.
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Wisdom Calls
Jesus carries and embodies the Biblical tradition of wisdom, calling us to let go of our self-focussed lives and expand into new lives of wisdom, love and compassion.
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Playing Favourites
God’s gracious acceptance is so free from favouritism that we find it scandalous and daunting.
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Love and Grubbiness
God’s love for us is so all-consuming that he accepts us as soon as we accept him and is happy for our behaviours to be sorted out in the transforming experience of love.
