Topic: Salvation

The power of sin over us will not be broken by trying harder, but by pursuing Christ and Christ alone.

In the face of human evil, God has made a personal commitment to persevere in loving us and drawing us towards fulfilment.

There is no hell where the love of God in Christ cannot reach us.

Being born of water and Spirit involves becoming as vulnerable and dependent on God as a newborn baby is on its parents.

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.

Advent faith believes in the possibility of surprise, and that our tragic and repetitive history has a punch-line which will overturn everything that we have been taught to expect.

In baptism, we have passed from the preoccupations of the present to the a life shaped by God’s future, and though the completion of that transformation may be painful, it is nevertheless the fulfilling of our deepest longings.

Making the Church in the incarnate body of Christ is costly for God, and both challenging and salvific for us.

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

The message that salvation is exclusively in the hands of the risen Christ may be unfashionable, but it is the only message of salvation we have to offer.

In the midst of horror and despair, Christ arrives with love enough, with peace enough, with hope enough to make things very, very, very different.

The only thing which proves to be worth anything at all, the only thing that proves able to continually redeem our lives from the brink is faith in the crucified and risen one.