Book: John

The love of God seeks us out, even when we least deserve it, and then calls us to love others similarly.

There is no more waiting; there is no more longing. The wait is over. Jesus is alive, and he lives in all those who hear his voice and follow him.

Doubts and questions, far from being a threat to faith in the risen Christ, are its normal starting point and constant companion.

Because of God’s abundance, God’s never-ending supply of extravagant and eternal generosity, we are raised out of death and into God’s life: a life of gratitude, of loving, of belonging, out of which flows a life of service and a burning desire to participate in God’s passionate concern for the world.

Jesus came into the world to fill us with new life, and encourage us, and show us how to grow, so if we remain focussed on the light, letting it shine into our areas of darkness, then darkness will never have the last word.

God becomes human and brings into himself (reconciles to himself) in Jesus the full range of human emotional experience.

In a world increasingly divided between violent powers, Jesus leads a kingdom that is a radical peaceful challenge to both of them.

En Cristo somos uno con toda la carne y la sangre, y por lo tanto nuestra lucha no es contra ningunas personas, sino contra los espíritus y los principados y los potestades que dividirían a la gente y les harían enemigos.

We only reliably recognise and combat evil by listening to Jesus and taking his wisdom into our hearts.

It is in our woundedness, this woundedness we try to avoid and would rather not acknowledge, that we find our identity as the body of Christ, our identity as the church.

When we respond to the call to model our lives on his life, the life of the One who has seen the Father, then, like him, we must not sidestep or avoid suffering.

Jesus rejects the opportunity to fulfil our hopes and expectations in order that he might give us more than we thought possible.