Darkness Breaks Slowly
The good news of resurrection meets us in the darkest places of our lives and so is initially incomprehensible and disorienting.
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When God tries again
God is passionately in love with us and longing to give us every good thing if we will respond to his love.
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Objects of Desire
We all learn our desires from others, but most of them are destructive, and law tries to control them. The pathway to freedom and life is to follow Jesus and learn to desire as he desires.
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Not Feeling Rejected Enough?
In an increasingly polarised world, championing the radical love and mercy shown by Jesus is likely to bring hostility from all sides.
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Reading The Rainbow
Both contemporary and ancient understandings of the rainbow sign point to God’s expansive love overcoming our fears and hostilities.
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Up and Down the Mountain
The transfiguration reminds us that in and through Jesus, the perfect Son of God and the perfect Son of Man, we each have the potential to experience and to be glimpses of God who is the true agent of change in our lives and in the world.
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When is a Call not a Call?
Following Jesus in ministering among the needs around us is not a call to do everything ourselves.
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Confronting Religious Demons
Jesus overcomes the demonic powers which colonise our religious structures and thinking and which rob us of our freedom, integrity and life.
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Jonah Swallows a Shark
The story of Jonah challenges us whenever we start thinking that we have special rights as God’s people.
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Ordained in Baptism
In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.
