Last week we ended with Jesus’ denunciation of the people through his little parable of the children at play, as we continue to read in Matthew the denunciation becomes sharper. In these five verses of Matt 11:20-24 there is a double warning, explanation and comparison of the story of judgement on towns in Israel’s past […]
The gift of eternal life is not ultimately a passport to heaven but a participation in new creation that breaks into our present reality with a completely new reality –the kingdom of God in which we participate as the holy people of God, full of grace and truth. Matthew 24:32-44; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Peter Cunliffe speaks from Romans 3. Everyone has sinned, we fail to reach the mark. There are different ideas about sin; at sin’s root is the fundamental unbelief, distrust and rejection of God and the human displacement of God as the centre of reality; but apart from the fact that sin separates us from God and […]