At pentecost, the Holy Spirit was poured in such a powerful way that it gave birth to the church. And every other time the Holy Spirit fell on them or falls on us (the church) there is alway something big happening. Something is always born. One other such times was at Antioch where the disciples were...
We have building up to pentecost as a church. The outpouring of the Holy Spirit who gives us power to be what we have been called to be.
On ascension day, Jesus gathers his disciples and friends and declares that he has been given all authority and power and then gives them instructions. To go, make disciples and baptise them and teach them to speak the Kingdom of God and demonstrate the Kingdom of God. These things are a question of obedience for...
After the resurrection, Jesus appeared to hundreds of people. Encounters that completely changed their lives. This encounters kicked off the Jesus movement. And these encounters were so important because of the calling of the apostles in the coming future as leaders of the church and sharing the Gospel of the Kingdom from Jerusalem, to Judea...
There is something about times of confinement and contraction that exposes our faith and what it is made of. We get to see our true confession. So some of the things we just believed out of the social pressure of corporate worship are being revealed in times of separation from each other. Today we look...
After Jesus is raised from the dead one of the first things he does is appear to his disciples to comfort them. Mary sees him and thinks it is the gardener. Contrary to the Christmas story with angles singing in the skies and a big star leading people. Resurrection seems to be very low key...
This Easter Sunday is special one. The world seems stuck on the cross of GoodFriday while celebrating resurrection Sunday. COVID-19 cases still growing, death tolls rising and economies struggling to reopen while keeping public health safety rules. Yet our faith, like the life of Jesus, reaches its crescendo at both the cross and resurrection. This...
In these uncertain times it might not be fair to just say that things will be okay. We still do not know what we are dealing with. A few things we do know however, are God is in control. His love for us has not changed and his invitation to us to join him in...
Jesus leading his life towards the cross for our complete freedom and us becoming sons and daughters of God leaves on this trail freedoms for us to experience. He calms a stormy sea showing that he has power over nature which means as God’s children we do not have to fear things that happen in...
