Like Jonah, we often try in vain to run from God’s call to mission, but he will use any means necessary to get our attention and to expose our fears and prejudices: sometimes storms, sometimes the very people we are trying so hard to avoid.
A celebration of salvation. We joined together and heard from different voices sharing what God has done in their lives, and we remembered the significance of the resurrection for us all.
We all want peace: world peace and personal peace. But do we know what will bring us the peace we all seek?
In his final week on earth, Jesus entered a city that was in turmoil, but they didn’t recognise him as the one who offered the only thing we all really need – peace with God.
This is the word that earliest Christians would repeat to one another – a cry that Jesus would come quickly. That history would be resolved. That all would be well. It’s a good prayer!
Christianity is a realistic religion. It doesn’t avoid the truth that life can involve pain. Physical pain, relational pain, mental pain. But all this pain won’t get the last word. The tears may last a while, but there’s joy coming.
The world has too many evil regimes. Too many people are oppressed. Too many suffer at the hands of the powerful. How will this be brought to an end by a rider on a white horse?
What has happened to all those who have died waiting for Jesus to return? What will eternal life be like? How does this hope help us live well now? On Sunday, we explored the possible answers behind these questions.
On Sunday, as we explored; how to live without fear in the middle of global upheavals, why wars and famines don’t necessarily mean Jesus is just about to come back, and why this is good news!
Jesus has promised that he will return, that history will not finish with a collapse into catastrophe, but in a song of justice and joy. How does this help us live?
Many of us live with prayers that have not yet been answered. What is the place of suffering and the ‘unhealed’ in the life of faith when we want to live honestly but also hopefully?
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