Topic: Faith

Although we can’t prove that our faith isn’t another crackpot fraud, we can provide evidence by living lives of love, hope and hospitality.

As important as our responses and decisions are, before we know, we are known. Before we understand, we are understood. Before we say ‘Yes’, ‘Yes’ is said to us.

We are often afraid to face what must be faced in order to enter the new world God has promised, but God continues to promise an abundance of blessings when we overcome our fears and obey.

Jesus leads us through the confusion of transition times, into a new space with hugely expanded horizons and lives made meaningful in a global way.

Jesus’s encounter with Thomas and the first disciples can show us a thing or two about living under lockdown and hoping for a miracle to save us.

Lived faith is the way to life in God, but it passes through a baptism of fire.

Conversion to the way of Jesus is not just a matter of belief, but requires a serious reckoning with our past complicity with attacks on his way.

Sickness and sin are similar and related disorders from which Jesus comes to to heal and save us.

As God’s people, we celebrate life in the face of death, because we know that the victory of life has been secured.

God invites us to live joyously, boldly and freely in the midst of mystery, but we are frequently tempted to grasp for something more tangible and certain.

Jesus calls us to welcome and honour each other at his table regardless of the disagreements we may have over how to apply biblical teachings.

My journey has brought me to a place where I have begun to know the rest that Jesus offers.