Topic: Discipleship

Jesus demonstrates the need to reflect on our results and reject the easy success and popularity that are built on meeting basic needs.

The culture of God is emerging in our present world, confronting us with a choice – do we cling to our allegiance to the cultures that have raised us or let go of them and embrace the culture of God.

While we are called to be a sharing community and thus to have no need of worry for tomorrow, you can’t look to others to provide you with the fruits of a life lived in generosity and prayerfulness.

Jesus’s quest for reconciliation is far wider and more discomfortingly radical than our tendency to jump on the bandwagon of popular justice causes.

Today, as in Jesus’s day, two fundamentally different visions of God and God’s expectations compete. Jesus calls us to side with the one that centres on love rather than the one that centres on concerns for holiness.

Modelling ourselves on those who model themselves on Jesus is a healthy pathway to fulfilling the image of God within us.

Christians are to be known for what they celebrate and affirm and encourage rather than what they are against.

Recognising what sort of sacrifices we are called to make and what sort of sacrifices we are called to refrain from making is crucial to faithfully following the way of Jesus.

My journey has brought me to a place where I have begun to know the rest that Jesus offers.

Baptism is to the Christian life as a wedding is to the married life – an ongoing symbol of the vowed and relational life in God.

Allowing ourselves to be shaped by the teaching and testimony passed down from the Apostles protects us from falling for the idea that the gospel is a marketable means of gratifying our wishes.

Following Jesus has nothing to do with trying to be good. His love and hope are gifts, rather than demands, and they free us to love and hope freely.