Topic: Grace

In a world increasingly divided between violent powers, Jesus leads a kingdom that is a radical peaceful challenge to both of them.

Only when the world models itself on the self-sacrificial love and mercy we have seen in Jesus will it be saved from the cycles of apocalyptic violence and chaos.

Jesus wants to lift us beyond the deadening conformity that seeks to silence us and confine us to a stunted life.

In Christ we have been given a new identity that dissolves the labels of first and two-thirds world, and invites us all to be poor.

Jesus’s invitation is radically open and inclusive, and we need to guard carefully against our own culturally conditioned instincts to start narrowing and policing it.

Good gossip, listening in love to each other’s stories and seeking the presence of God, helps us to build connection and community and to grow in love.

En Cristo somos uno con toda la carne y la sangre, y por lo tanto nuestra lucha no es contra ningunas personas, sino contra los espíritus y los principados y los potestades que dividirían a la gente y les harían enemigos.

Jesus rejects the opportunity to fulfil our hopes and expectations in order that he might give us more than we thought possible.

Despite our often minimal vision for ourselves, and our feeling of not being important to God, Jesus Christ is committed to bringing us to the fullness of life and wholeness.

A sermon in response to a broken relationship in the church

Because we really don’t have the whole truth, the Spirit will be heard only when we are together, listening to one another in love.

With every step we take towards God’s economy, we will become more powerful in our witness to God’s saving action and love for the world, and be filled ever more deeply with God’s good grace.