Standing Up to the Silencers
Jesus wants to lift us beyond the deadening conformity that seeks to silence us and confine us to a stunted life.
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Random Acts of Suffering
Most suffering is random and unfair, but Jesus has joined us in it to lead us into new life.
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#FirstWorldProblems?
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.
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Hellfire, Border Protection, and Self-Mutilation
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.
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Winning, Losing and Child’s Play
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.
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Holy Gossip
Good gossip, listening in love to each other’s stories and seeking the presence of God, helps us to build connection and community and to grow in love.
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Poverty, borders, and the Meaning of Faith
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.
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You Are Not Defiled
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, that another person can do to you that can make you unclean or defiled in the eyes of God.
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No tenemos lucha contra sangre y carne
En Cristo somos uno con toda la carne y la sangre, y por lo tanto nuestra lucha no es contra ningunas personas, sino contra los espÃritus y los principados y los potestades que dividirÃan a la gente y les harÃan enemigos.
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‘The words I have spoken are spirit and life’
We only reliably recognise and combat evil by listening to Jesus and taking his wisdom into our hearts.
