Book: Romans

Paul grieves for Israel rather than standing apart in judgement – and asks what it would cost us to stop pointing the finger only outward.

When grief leaves us wordless and a hard parable unsettles us, Jesus promises that nothing – not even death – can separate us from God’s love.

Being “inclusive” doesn’t end the old habit of exclusion – it just relocates it. Jesus offers a different yoke instead.

In a world ruled by suspicion and blame, the gospel announces an abundance that was never earned and cannot run out.

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

Hope is a courageous and active stance towards life which is nourished in those who attend to the voice of God in Scripture.

The life-changing implications of the resurrection can be just as bewildering and impossible to get our heads around as the resurrection itself.

God’s offer of unlimited forgiveness creates a new world in which we are free to stop judging one another and turning on one another and spiralling into violence and hatred.

When we approach everyone with meet with the conviction that the one thing we owe them is love, Christianity will again be experienced as good news.

It is only in light of the resurrection that we can comprehend the sin and death that we are being liberated from.

Our sure hope of a new future brought to fulfilment in the coming Christ inspires and empowers us to live now in ways which resist the despair and selfishness of our age and anticipate the peace and righteousness of the coming age.

The Advent break in of God in Christ is underway, bringing disruption of a status quo that our world needs to be free of, and liberation from the imprisonment of sin.