Topic: Love

In order for men to step up and end the scourge of domestic violence, they need to experience themselves as loved and valued, liberating them to love others.

God is passionately in love with us and longing to give us every good thing if we will respond to his love.

We all learn our desires from others, but most of them are destructive, and law tries to control them. The pathway to freedom and life is to follow Jesus and learn to desire as he desires.

In an increasingly polarised world, championing the radical love and mercy shown by Jesus is likely to bring hostility from all sides.

When we approach everyone with meet with the conviction that the one thing we owe them is love, Christianity will again be experienced as good news.

Jesus did not come with the goal of making some gentle improvements to the status quo, but to disable the status quo by exposing its lies and revealing its victims. Without our culture being radically converted by that, the result is escalating chaos, to which Jesus offers himself as a victim and calls us to do the same.

Repetition of everything God-like is an important pathway to Christian maturity.

The world finds the message of Jesus almost incomprehensible because it seems too simplistic and unrealistic to be taken seriously.

The global social breakdown of which Jesus speaks is caused by the failure of our old oppressive ways of maintaining peace, but God has promised us a better way on the other side.

When you know yourself truly beloved by God in Christ, you are freed from fear and shame to live fully and generously and courageously.

Those who are insiders in the life of God are characterised by their love and compassion for all, especially those deemed unworthy of it, and by the humility to be schooled by outsiders.

Christian spirituality is full of yearning and hungering and reaching for a God who can never quite be satisfyingly grasped.