Book: Jeremiah

The life that Jesus calls us too will not be found and enjoyed until we give up trying to engineer the life we dreamed we were supposed to be living.

Living in hope-fuelled anticipation of God’s promised future does not mean withdrawing from the life of the world around us.

Jesus offers us vision of the future which sharply differs from that offered by modern economics, and we need to intentionally nourish that vision.

God longs to welcome and bless us far more than we deserve, but if we don’t contribute to a culture of extravagant grace, we are unlikely to be able to receive it.

If we construct our identity around a pursuit of social esteem, we will degrade our true selves, but if we model ourselves on the generosity of God, we will find true life where few look for it.

Jesus came into the world to fill us with new life, and encourage us, and show us how to grow, so if we remain focussed on the light, letting it shine into our areas of darkness, then darkness will never have the last word.

The glory of God is most fully revealed in Jesus’s willingness to suffer death at the hands of the law.

Thanks be to God, we are in safe hands. God who has been the author, will also be the finisher of our faith.

Those who trust God and remain flexible enough to change and grow will have nothing to fear from God’s strong hands.

God speaks prophetically through the Church and through some individuals, and the prophetic task is inseparable from humility, constructiveness, graciousness, love, patience and generosity.

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.

The sacred is all around us and within us, but don’t make the mistake of trying to regulate it.