Topic: Power

To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority and to critique all power-mongering.

The saints of God are engaged in a war between conflicting empires battling for control of the world, but Jesus has radically transformed our understanding of how we fight.

Resurrection keeps happening and keeps changing the world and overcoming the hostile deathly powers despite our inability to believe.

Young. Woman. Pregnant. Unmarried. How does Mary the mother of Jesus speak to you today?

Serving Christ as king challenges our use of power and politics and questions where our ultimate loyalty and security lie.

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.

When misunderstood, being “the chosen” can mutate into a toxic culture of entitlement that produces horrific criminal behaviour, and Jesus calls us to join him in challenging that culture.

Many parts of the Bible can be and often are weaponised as tools of oppression, but when we read it critically, with and through the teachings and example of Jesus, it calls us to liberation and life.

The Lord’s Prayer is a manifesto for a whole new way of relating to God and the world.

If we are to call Christ a King and still remain faithful to him, we must begin with the subversion of the very concept of kingship that Jesus points to when he is questioned by Pilate.

The power of God is that a contagion of life—of transformation, hope, and peace—is more powerful than a contagion of death.

God will walk with us in suffering and work redemptively within it, but God is not powerful enough to just remove it.