Topic: Jesus

The stories of Moses, Elijah and Jesus on various mountain tops reveals a process of God’s self-revelation as the one who loves us and suffers for us.

Jesus calls us to model ourselves on him to embrace a new pattern of full humanity rather than just constrain the worst excesses of an old failed humanity.

The experience of the living Christ keeps pushing us to think even bigger in our attempts to explain him.

The Bible can be used to justify anything, but when it is approached humbly as a place of prayerful encounter with the risen Christ, it is alive with the breath of God and leads us to life.

Forgiving the way Jesus does will always be seen as not just disreputable, but even dangerous and criminal.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Believing and following Jesus is about faith because certainty is impossible and doubts are unavoidable.

When we follow Christ in being pain-bearers, we are participating in the reconciliation of the world.

Those who, in Christ, have been set free to love as Jesus loves will no longer have their relationships with God or one another bounded or understood by law.

Being a follower of Jesus means honouring his authority by following his teachings and his example (something that has become surprisingly rare).

When God is understood through the revelation of Jesus and his pattern of relating, then we discover ourselves invited into generous and gracious solidarity with all creation.

A sermon on Psalm 23