Topic: Jesus

Christ is our high priest, the sole mediator between the world and God, but as the body of Christ we share in Christ’s task of reconciling earth and heaven.

Because of who Jesus is, we are both naked and vulnerable before him, and confident to approach God. Our only fear is of ourselves!

The challenge of relinquishing selfish desire is a crucial key to a deeper journey into the life of Christ.

We need to be willing to hear truth whether it comes from an expected source or an unexpected source.

The extent of God’s grace constantly astounds us as it floods over ever social barrier we erect.

Encounters with the risen Christ open our minds rather than narrow our theology.

Knowledge can be used to destroy or to liberate. In Jesus we see one whose teaching and actions are an integrated liberating message.

Although the choice to repent can be characterised in black and white terms, it usually feels like a choice for one risky joy over several safer ones, but it’s worth it!

Each human being is an icon of Christ and so the respect and care with which we deal with others is an expression of our devotion to Christ.

Will we live out allegiance to the state, the economy, the mass media, consumerism, status-driven values and wealth, or to God, to the new community, to upside-down kingdom values and to a radical alternative which is the source of hope and transformation?

Icons, as representations of the incarnation rather than images of God, can serve to open us to God rather than becoming alternatives to God.

The Word has become flesh to redeem us. Now our redeemed response must become flesh.