Topic: Jesus

What is God challenging you to return to? Will you be a witness to the joy and love, and the possibilities of the alternative world heralded by Jesus?

It is not from the halls of power but from humble places that the love which offers wholeness and healing and peace erupts into life.

In the face of a politics grounded in nationalist arrogance and fake news, Jesus proclaims a ‘kingdom’ grounded in shared humanity and truth.

The collapse of the institutional church and other social structures will be painful for all of us, but it is not ultimately a threat to mission of Jesus.

Suffering raises painful unanswerable questions, but Jesus leads us into a life where the sharing of our honest questions is part of shaping a community of healing and hope.

There is nothing wrong with an eager desire for a special closeness to Jesus. Jesus is eager to fulfil such desires, but warns us of the cost of sticking with him.

When we want to know what God is like, our primary source of information is Jesus.

Children are a sign of the Kingdom, and our capacity to welcome them is a measure of our capacity to welcome the culture of God.

When we commit ourselves to following Jesus, we surrender all our personal aspirations and our share in the aspirations of our nation, in order that we might receive the life of Christ.

Jesus opens himself to the experience of those who are excluded and responds with a radical opening of the Table of God’s communion.

Jesus confronts us with our cannibalistic behaviour in order that we might follow him into a saving communion with God and one another.

Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.