The Prodigal Son (Luke 15)

I like to think that our mandate still stands, but our practice of it has evolved and transformed to be more like the Father who didn’t ask questions or make demands; rather he extended his beautiful red cloak out and around his wayward son’s shoulders, drawing him close to his chest, placing his mother-father hands on his back and welcoming him back home.

Pre Easter 2020Clint GibsonMarch 17, 2020

Rev 19:10

For Jesus, worship and the prophetic weren’t just some lofty soaring idealism. The kingdom of God is like a seed, like a women searching for a coin, like a man going on a trip who is robbed and left for dead, like a prodigal son who was lost but who then comes home to the love and embrace of his father.

Jesus invites us into this way of seeing God and God’s kingdom that is deeply connected to our everyday lives. He tells us that the presence of God is found not “out there”, but very close. The kingdom of God is near, he tells them. The kingdom of God is in your midst. The kingdom of God is within you.

Can you see it?

Pre Easter 2020Clint GibsonMarch 12, 2020

Moving On

For when fear and anxiety, which is often caused by a conflict of interest between the past and the future comes crashing in on us, we need to be careful not to catastrophise about possible outcomes. Trust helps us to relinquish our hold on the security blankets of our childhood and clothe ourselves with courage. Your children’s children will thank you for it.