Book: Isaiah

In both the Christian church as well as the wider world, there is increasing division. Is there a way we can become genuine peacemakers in both church and world?

Salvation – reconciliation with God and with one another – is relational rather than transactional, and it begins with a willingness to see, listen and learn.

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An evolving understanding of being God’s chosen people reveals the call to focus on being a blessing to others and the world.

Epiphany reminds us that we have no monopoly on the truth and always have more to learn from people of other faiths and backgrounds.

Confused feelings in the aftermath of the Bondi massacre are a window into the ongoing need for healing and transformation in our own hearts.

Isaiah 35 declares joy and courage and gladness, for those stuck in the wilderness and dry lands.
Joy for the weak hands, the feeble knees and the fearful hearts.

God’s ways of abundance and grace are almost incomprehensible to those of us who have been shaped by the world’s ways of scarcity and merit based rewards and punishments.

When we truly encounter God in worship, we see everything in all its splendour and horror and are transformed for mission.

In the nativity we see the light of living grace, in all its vulnerability, shining into the darkness of the world’s violence and divisiveness.

Christ’s grief gathers up our griefs and achieves the promise of a day when tears will be no more.

Following Jesus in ministering among the needs around us is not a call to do everything ourselves.

God reaches out to us through babies and elderly folks with a message of love and redemption that cuts through the theological justifications of empire and warmongering and calls us to peace.