Book: Mark

We all get trapped in demonic and dehumanising social structures, but Jesus unmasks the truth so that we can be set free.

Perhaps amidst the increasingly depressing state of the world, Jesus is calling us to learn the path of faithfulness from those who never win.

Jesus affirms generous giving, but he also condemns the religious exploitation of generous givers.

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.

The capacity to understand and follow the way of Jesus is a miraculous gift.

In calling us into the culture of God, Jesus calls us to give up our addictions to tribalism, competitive grief, and selective compassion.

Jesus calls us to embrace God, life, and one another with joy, delight, hope, and grace, not with heartlessness cloaked in legalities.

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.

Jesus offers himself to us to serve and bless us, and calls us to do the same in serving and blessing others.

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.

God’s gracious acceptance is so free from favouritism that we find it scandalous and daunting.

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.