Topic: Jesus

God’s visions of the future are often dismissed as unrealistic because our limited vision causes us to expect only more of the same.

Before your past catches up with you, Jesus will try to blindside you with scandalous grace.

Jesus offers us vision of the future which sharply differs from that offered by modern economics, and we need to intentionally nourish that vision.

The culture of God is so radical in its loving embrace of everyone that mainstream society will see it as a dangerous rejection of all it holds dear.

If we construct our identity around a pursuit of social esteem, we will degrade our true selves, but if we model ourselves on the generosity of God, we will find true life where few look for it.

The Transfiguration is not about the remoteness of God, but about a promise that through the exodus of Jesus’ death and resurrection, we might with him shine, transfigured, with the blazing glory of God.

If we delight in shaming and punishing wrongdoers, we will not recognise the scandalous love and mercy revealed in Jesus, but instead find ourselves being harshly judged by an outraged condemning god who we have created in our own image.

Election week sheds new light on how we can participate with Jesus in bringing satanic principalities and powers crashing down.

The gospel of love and grace revealed by Jesus is always at risk of being distorted into a false gospel of ‘holy’ hostility.

The love of God seeks us out, even when we least deserve it, and then calls us to love others similarly.

In Christ, God is made manifest to the world as King, Light and Lover.

We grow into the likeness of Christ as we model ourselves on him, and he is a model of growth rather than a model of static perfection.