Wilde Fairytales and Epiphany Light
The light of Christ reaches the world through those who will bear the wounds of love.
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Ready To Die Happy
Jesus was born to reveal and fulfil what God had long sought to do; set people free to live joyously as God’s children.
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The Gospel in a Feed Trough
The nativity story proclaims the basic themes of the gospel message; God enters into our suffering world as a victim of our violence, and is rejected by most but recognised by the nobodies.
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Getting Ahead of Ourselves
As God’s people, we celebrate life in the face of death, because we know that the victory of life has been secured.
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Patience as Salvation
For both God and us, time can drag when waiting for change, but patience is salvation when forgiveness is offered as a means of change rather than as a reward for change.
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Judging Nations
God has created a world that becomes healthy, free and full of life when its nations honour and care for the most vulnerable. Nations that fail to build cultures of compassion and care are doomed to destroy themselves.
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Things You Can’t Share
While we are called to be a sharing community and thus to have no need of worry for tomorrow, you can’t look to others to provide you with the fruits of a life lived in generosity and prayerfulness.
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How Wide is your Rainbow Flag?
Jesus’s quest for reconciliation is far wider and more discomfortingly radical than our tendency to jump on the bandwagon of popular justice causes.
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What Matters Most: Love or Holiness?
Today, as in Jesus’s day, two fundamentally different visions of God and God’s expectations compete. Jesus calls us to side with the one that centres on love rather than the one that centres on concerns for holiness.
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Image Management
Modelling ourselves on those who model themselves on Jesus is a healthy pathway to fulfilling the image of God within us.
