25th December 2022 Christmas Day “Christmas is Always Outside”
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God comes close not in power but in human life. He took on flesh and blood in Jesus and is close by.
In our busy, noisy lives it is easy to miss seeing this astonishing truth, that we see what God is like by seeing who Jesus is.
God makes a home for everyone. Those who trust in Jesus are children of God by grace.
The challenge is to expect the breathe of God in unexpected places.
Some gems are presented today along with some troubling ideas.
You may be ‘in or out’, you may be ‘wheat or weeds’. The Holy Spirit will help us in our weakness.
David asks God to search and to know him – to make him open to change.
Jesus tells the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin to show God’s urgent and compassionate focus on what is lost.
Unlike the Pharisees, Jesus emphasizes rejoicing over recovery, not punishment.
These stories reveal God’s loving gaze—a divine attention that sees, values, and embraces each
person. We are invited to live within this “solar system of grace,” held by unconditional love.
Though such love can sometimes make us feel inadequate, it also reminds us that everyone experiences failure and brokenness, and yet God loves us just as we are.
A famous USA musician tried to cut through the noise of rush hour with his powerful music.
Do we ever expect anything
extraordinary in the ordinary?
Jesus showed in extraordinary ways
who he was by what he was doing.
A new era has begun. John is uncomfortable in baptising Jesus – someone whom he feels inferior to and should not need repentance.
In this act Jesus becomes one with us – it is more about God’s solidarity with us than it is about our repentance of sins.
Can we be confident in such a God who is with us and for us?
We are reminded that our mission is to be shaping and being good news for our neighbours according to their hurts and hopes.We are called to be prophets now, joining God in the neighborhood and not to be following our own agendas.