Book: Psalms

In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.

Jesus acted out the parables that he was telling in his encounters with people, expressing the nature of God who seeks after us and rejoices in our being found and restored. God invites us to be people like that.

Jesus’s resurrection was a sign which declared that Jesus’ cause was God’s cause, that Jesus’ values were God’s values, that Jesus’ people were God’s people.

God’s love is like a refuge from the storm, like the hospitality of a generous host, like the continuing delight of a bridegroom for his bride, and like the alchemical power of the miracle-worker transforming even our fear and inconstancy into the power to love, forgive, and cherish.

Grace is the opposite of karma, that most ancient and persistent of human laws which proclaims that we get what we deserve. We do not get what we deserve, and thank Christ we don’t!

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 day of Pentecost is the day when the Spirit comes to interrupt and call into question the inevitability of our despair.

Darkness cannot conceal anything from God, but God who confronts us with truth and justice, and invites us to choose life and promises to help and bless us in that choice.

We voluntarily live a vowed life as a grateful response to God’s saving acts.

Living as God requires may not make sense in the world, but God will make it worth our while.

The impossible life of peace, joy, justice centred in the other, only becomes possible because God makes it possible.

Destructive evil is all around us and within us, but God has not given up on us.