Sometimes Grace Stinks
God’s grace is so extravagant that it will offend us as long as we are measuring our worth in comparison to others.
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Who causes suffering when we fail to forgive?
What would happen if violence were met with bread, with blankets, with hospitals, with forgiveness of debts?
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Love – reaching for the impossible
Christ is present to us in love, unity and reconciliation, and thus these are essential to our worship.
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Salvation takes the work of many
Whether we have been the oppressor or the oppressed or both, we all have a role in God’s work against violence and exploitation; we can all participate in God’s passion for justice.
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Walking Through Storms
Faith is a gift created in us as Jesus shows us that the pathway of courageous love and self-sacrifice is not impossible to walk.
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Wrestling with Faith
While faith is a gift, blessings come to those who are prepared to wrestle with their faith.
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Jacob the Trickster vs the nice Christians
There is nothing we can do to earn God’s presence or God’s blessing or God’s love, but when we let down our defences, when we give up striving, when we are vulnerable, then who knows what might happen?
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Jesus Fails Business School
God does not judge people’s capacity to respond and focus love and care only on the productive, but gives gifts with wanton freedom and extravagance and calls us to do the same.
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They Started It!
Trying to establish our own righteousness burdens us with divisiveness and hostility, but Jesus offers us rest and freedom.
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Exchanging God for a Lawless Life
God and religion misunderstood can be the cause of hostility, division and violence, but the God made known to us in Jesus is a God of grace who generously gives us life, freedom and reconciliation.