Topic: Mercy

Our anticipation of new life in Christ, though not removing all grief, allows us to find hope in the mercy and love of God.

We want to be rewarded as we think we deserve, but God wants to give us everything.

The gratuitous mercy made known in the resurrected Christ requires us to rethink the nature of God all the way back to creation.

Jesus’ teaching on the new ethics for disciples do not weigh us down because they are wrapped in generous mercy and humour.

We are called to confront and oppose the abuse of power, but also to continue to love and offer forgiveness to those whose actions we are opposing.

God’s merciful and all-inclusive love is steadfast, not arbitrary, and so fills us with hope in the coming Christ.

The encounter with the resurrected crucified Jesus enables us to see the absolute love, mercy and non-vengefulness of God.

God will open the way through the world’s chaos, and it will be grounded on extravagant mercy.

The Church will always contain more than its fair share of maliciousness, pettiness and nastiness, but the temptation to try to weed it out is a temptation to abandon the way of Christ and make things worse.

When we encounter the reality of God we are overcome with our own unworthiness, and we are confronted with a choice – to push God away and hide from our self-realization, or to accept God’s gracious invitation to mercy, transformation and mission.

Sin is a seemingly objective force for evil within us that can only be addressed when it’s out in the open before a merciful God.

Acceptance of God’s merciful presence and Christ’s ways will save us from selfishness and self-destructiveness.