Topic: Abundance

The desire for a fair universe is real and grief-filled – but Jesus steps outside that framework entirely, and invites us into something better.

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

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.

All-in commitment is unfashionable, but it is often what God needs from us to allow the richest blessings to flow.

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

Christ is always stretching the boundaries beyond what we can comprehend, and his ascension stretches his presence to encompass even what seem to us to be his absence.

While many have a passive-aggressive relationship with God, the gospel gives us a vision of God that liberates us to live freely, expansively and joyously.

God’s Providence usually works by people, moved by the Spirit of God, sharing when they have more above their own needs.

Jesus’s purpose for us is that we (individually and collectively) have fullness of life.

Jesus asks us to assess the legitimacy of any ministry by its transforming and liberating outcomes for the world and its peoples.

God’s love is passionate, attentive, tender and ardent.  Jesus the bridegroom comes and woos God’s people in every generation.

Jesus offers life in all its fullness, but many would rather settle for the odd snack rather than the full banquet.