Divinely persistent, God really loves us
The Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead is working to infiltrate the whole creation with God's love.
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In Christ, God's "yes" defeats our "no"
Our "no" is a human rejection of God's claim on us as our creator, sustainer and lord, a rejection that produces alienation and isolation, even from ourselves.
Christ's humanity occasions our divinity
According to both Irenaus
and Athanasios, God became like us so that we might become like God. Clement
observes that through obedience one "becomes a god while still walking in
the flesh."
God, through Jesus Christ, welcomes you anyhow
The gospel begins
and ends with God. Jesus makes God's action good news. But the word
"Jesus" alone doesn't help me; such Jesus is a nice guy, but I need
Jesus Christ, God's anointed.
Everybody gets to grow and change
But not everyone will grow and change.
God was in Christ reconciling the world
Christ effected our reconciliation with God and invested in us, so that we may become teeming vessels of witness and service to others.
God refuses to be God without us
We asked God to say something definite and God,
getting personal, sent Jesus Christ. We were surprised.
To dwell in possibility
When my daughter was confirmed in the Christian faith
last spring, I gave her Emily Dickinson's poem, "I dwell in Possibility."