Topic: Jesus

We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.

Jesus, the coming king, will rise above power mongering and tenderly lead the people into paradise

Love is both a command and an eschatological promise. The promise undergirds our striving to obey the command.

When greed and fear demand that we give our attention to money, Jesus calls us to reclaim the image of God within us, and offer ourselves to God.

Jesus commits himself to the path of redemptive suffering in preference to either fight or flight, and he calls us to follow him in that commitment.

Jesus will be there for us in the midst of the storms, but we are to stay together in his boat rather than jump ship in a misguided “display of faith”.

When Jesus sees us for who we really are, we are enabled to see ourselves for who we really are, without boxes and labels, and so be saved to become who we were created to be.

Amidst the variety of opinions about the Coming Christ, there is a real message of hope that reshapes our lives.

One of the most controversial aspects of Jesus’ message was that it moved all the fences. Jesus redrew the boundaries of the Kingdom of God to include very definitely those who previously had been excluded. He blew away the social and geographical limitations imposed by the pious Pharisees & other religious leaders. According to Jesus, God’s kingdom knew nothing of the political, social or religious boundaries placed on it by these groups.

We are faced with a choice, a crisis, each time we hear the Word, which slices through our souls, our families, our values, and demands our commitment without reservation.

Christ calls us to continue to grow in the measure of our love, prayer and good works.

Religious zeal often turns violent, but the revelation of Jesus Christ makes known a God who repudiates our violence and sets us free from it.