Book: Isaiah

What is God challenging you to return to? Will you be a witness to the joy and love, and the possibilities of the alternative world heralded by Jesus?

The doctrine of the Trinity helps us to see that, though exalted and transcendent, God is nevertheless close and personally involved with us.

Jesus demonstrates the need to reflect on our results and reject the easy success and popularity that are built on meeting basic needs.

Jesus was born to reveal and fulfil what God had long sought to do; set people free to live joyously as God’s children.

As God’s people, we celebrate life in the face of death, because we know that the victory of life has been secured.

In the violence and suffering that surround the Christmas story, we find the revelation of a God who does not inflict violence and suffering, but suffers violence to bring love and peace.

Jesus is the Word – what God has to say – who reveals true humanity and illuminates our path to becoming fully and truly human.

Jesus Christ is the coming one who will fulfill the hopes and yearnings of the world, but we will imperil our faith and hope if we keep trying to set the agendas for him.

God’s visions of the future are often dismissed as unrealistic because our limited vision causes us to expect only more of the same.

There are numerous competing claims about what a faithful Christian life looks like, and sometimes the truth about following Jesus may be the least palatable of them all.

Our lives are gift: a gift from abundance, a gift to be shared, a gift given for the life of the world, a gift we can give away because we are confident that the eternal source of life, the God who promises healing and freedom, will always replenish us.

In Christ, God is made manifest to the world as King, Light and Lover.