Topic: Salvation

Jesus overcomes the demonic powers which colonise our religious structures and thinking and which rob us of our freedom, integrity and life.

Jesus calls us to look to the new things God is doing and seeks to humbly cooperate with them and bear witness to them.

In the Christ-child we encounter God responding to our suffering and leading us into the promised land of new life.

In Christ, God has made an agreement with us, offering us everything and demanding nothing, but if we offer nothing we will be at risk of squandering it all.

All that matters about God, about sin and forgiveness, and about living with integrity and freedom, flows from the human encounter with the crucified and risen Jesus.

Christ calls us to be alert for his salvific coming in the midst of the terrors of the here and now, not just in the past and future.

If we want to understand how Jesus saves us and what Jesus saves us from, we are going to have to abandon the most widely taught explanation.

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

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.

As Woody Allen said, 90% of success is just showing up, and in the resurrection, Jesus really shows up!

Christ’s gratuitous forgiveness and acceptance always manage to scandalise us, but it is our willingness to embrace them that saves us.

The threat of extreme climate change can only be averted with a major spiritual transformation, and Jesus shows the way.