Topic: Liberation

The beatitudes proclaim God’s preferential love for the poor and challenge us to rethink our own dependence on financial security.

Jesus calls us to accept forgiveness and get on with a life and faith that do not revolve constantly about trying to make up for mistakes.

What God has done and is doing is cause for celebration.

Knowledge can be used to destroy or to liberate. In Jesus we see one whose teaching and actions are an integrated liberating message.

Christians are to be known for what they do rather than what they abstain from.

Sin seeks to enslave our bodies, but if we will take on Christ’s yoke we are incorporated into Christ’s body for redemption.

Being saved can be painful, but its goal, becoming a purified people who can worship rightly without fear, is the ultimate reward.

The need for liberation for the poor and oppressed is obvious, but for the comfortable and successful, the enslavements to consumerism, power and hardness of heart are harder to discern and take the intervention of God to break free from.

Jesus is God’s chosen liberator from birth and calls us to follow him among the innocent sufferers bringing hope and freedom.