Topic: Hope

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

The Christmas stories assure us that Jesus is the one who brings light into our darkness.

Faithful waiting for for the fulfilment of God’s promises can leave us feeling compromised and alienated in the world around us.

The coming kingdom culture confronts the world’s violence by redemptively suffering and absorbing it, not by reciprocating it with even greater violence.

The imminent arrival of God’s messiah asks each of us to take up the identity of witnesses who open the way for God to be known.

We can face the unknown future with confidence because we know that the one who holds the future loves us and can be trusted.

When God calls us to invest in the places we live, it is a call to active agents of positive change, not compliant patriots.

Facing an epidemic of depression and despair, Jesus calls us to follow on a tear-stained path of prophetic faithfulness.

Lived faith is the way to life in God, but it passes through a baptism of fire.

In Christ’s ascension onto the mysterious cloud, we are gathered together into his mysterious presence.

We have been drawn into an unstoppable rumour that keeps interrupting the dominant story of fear, hostility and death.

Jesus sets out to reshape our view of the relationships between sin, repentance and disaster, and if possible, to call us out of our spiral into global self-destruction.