Topic: Discernment

God is with us everywhere, whether we realise it or not, but there is still value in honouring special places of promise and revelation.

Christ is so present we loose the ability to see him. We need to worship to recover our sight.

Jesus full humanity meant that temptation was real for him, as it is for us. Temptation is not in itself bad, but indicates to us that we have a gift of choice.

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

The Church will always contain more than its fair share of maliciousness, pettiness and nastiness, but the temptation to try to weed it out is a temptation to abandon the way of Christ and make things worse.

Any political wisdom which has lost touch with the values revealed to us in the character of God is on the road to disaster. It is not wisdom at all; it is just the mouthings of wealth and power.

The answers to the questions about our future directions are not easy, but we can trust the God who holds our future in his hands.

God invites us to be immersed in another possible reality, to look at the world with the dark and contrary light that comes from the cross of Jesus.

The wound of abandonment which haunts every human being will find its healing in Christ who is everywhere present as the authority and power of God.

Jesus calls us to take the way less travelled, to leave behind the sin that entangles, to be welcomed by God, that we may have power to welcome and love even our enemies.

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

Our perception of things can be distorted by the context in which we see them. Jesus constantly challenges our misperceptions by challenging us to look at things through a different frame. It is only by constant reference to Jesus and to the ways that he looked at things that we learn to see ourselves and our surrounds more realistically.