Topic: Gifts

The new humanity formed in the death and resurrection of Jesus speaks a language of love and compassion that transcends linguistic and cultural differences and celebrates unity in diversity.

Love names, creation, joyful service and gifts for the common good can be signs of the nature and culture of God.

What is the legacy you will leave? Live into life and love the way you want it to be, because whatever you choose will live on after you. 

Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.

The Holy Spirit fills the church with gifts, not only for its own sake, but so that it might be a gift to the world.

God has promised the whole world to all God’s children, but not exclusive rights to some bits of it to some people.

Our freedom in Christ renders the law irrelevant as a factor in our relationship with God, but we are set free to grow into union with Christ, not to fall into new slaveries.

While we are called to be a sharing community and thus to have no need of worry for tomorrow, you can’t look to others to provide you with the fruits of a life lived in generosity and prayerfulness.

Being truly alive is a gift so extravagantly rich and wonderful that it can’t even be meaningfully contrasted with simply not being dead.

God’s self-giving is to all of humanity, all of the time, and we are called to lift our eyes beyond our immediate concerns and stand in solidarity with the faithful who have gone before us.

It is as members of the body that you are given the gifts that are needed for this body to serve in this time and this place.

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