Topic: Jesus

Serving Christ as king challenges our use of power and politics and questions where our ultimate loyalty and security lie.

Jesus’s primary aim was not saving us for heaven after we die, but establishing a culture of whole-hearted loved in the here and now.

Christ’s grief gathers up our griefs and achieves the promise of a day when tears will be no more.

The capacity to understand and follow the way of Jesus is a miraculous gift.

Jesus offers himself to us to serve and bless us, and calls us to do the same in serving and blessing others.

Jesus carries and embodies the Biblical tradition of wisdom, calling us to let go of our self-focussed lives and expand into new lives of wisdom, love and compassion.

The doctrine of the Trinity teaches us how to take sides when the Bible brings us conflicting voices, especially over persistent issues like ethno-nationalism, racism, war, and genocide.

The image of Jesus as the good shepherd can speak of tough life-on-the-line love, not just cuddling lambs.

The forgiveness we experience in the risen Christ is dauntingly radical and we are called to share it.

The good news of resurrection meets us in the darkest places of our lives and so is initially incomprehensible and disorienting.

The transfiguration reminds us that in and through Jesus, the perfect Son of God and the perfect Son of Man, we each have the potential to experience and to be glimpses of God who is the true agent of change in our lives and in the world.

In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.