Topic: Healing

God invites us into a journey of healing, growth and reconciliation, and values our engagement with that journey far above our individual accomplishments.

After horrendous suffering and loss, the most courageous and ultimately transformative response is to reinvest in life and love with passion and hope.

The power of God is that a contagion of life—of transformation, hope, and peace—is more powerful than a contagion of death.

The experience of winter is God’s gift, inviting us to silence, healing and new depth of life.

God will walk with us in suffering and work redemptively within it, but God is not powerful enough to just remove it.

When our world and our hearts feel dry, cut off, and despondent, there is hope and life to be found in God’s promises.

All creation waits impatiently for humanity to work and pray its way into the fullness of our identity in Christ, for only then will all creation be safe and free.

Our generation is very good at identifying evils and calling them out, but if our hearts are not occupied by God’s love and mercy, the results can be disastrous.

Jesus calls us to follow his lead in bringing healing, hope and positive leadership to others, and not to be too worried about anxious and vexatious criticism.

There are plenty of reasons to despair of the future, but Jeremiah and Jesus show us a pathway of hope that overcomes despair.

The lectionary reading I’ve decided to focus on today is… read more

We have been drawn into an unstoppable rumour that keeps interrupting the dominant story of fear, hostility and death.