You know someone is honoured by how someone shows up for them and what expense they spare. You are honoured by God and he demonstrates this by showing up for you and sparing no expense. You have a seat at God’s table. Anything else you think you are, this remains true.
As a man or woman thinks, so they are. We live most of our lives from our sense of identity or lack of it. It determines how we live our lives: How we do family, how we do business, how we love and everything else. Sadly we often live from also identities. How we finish...
What do we do when change around is overwhelming? We can anchor ourselves in unchanging Hope. The hope we get from the resurrection of Jesus Christ. We can rest in the promise that Good and better things are yet to come and ultimately the Kingdom of God in its fullness. One way we surely do...
In a fast-changing world, we desperately look for where to anchor our souls, our identity and our future. Human beings are meant to find somewhere to anchor ourselves so that we are not overwhelmed by the constant change and this year has had so much change in so short a time. We can safely anchor...
Grief has been a friend to many this season. The reality of the sense of normal being stripped away, loss of jobs. Even society as a whole has had to deal with grief as we lost things we collectively celebrated. sadly, people have lost loved ones. Some to COVID-19, others to suicide as depression increased...
During the pandemic, some people have found themselves angrier and more irritable. Anger is a legitimate human emotion and one that points to something else happening in our hearts while leading us into action. How can we bring anger, when it shows up in our hearts, into conversation with God in order to keep our...
The Glory of God is people fully alive. Yet whatever the length of time we have followed Jesus, it is easy to get to a point where, if not careful, our hearts atrophy and we can no longer hear the voice of the Holy Spirit. One of the ways to keep our hearts alive and...
The devotions to scripture, generosity, prayer and worship, gathering, sharing meals and communion can often times seem mundane and uninteresting yet these are the places where our hearts are formed. This is where incarnation happens, the word becomes flesh, earth and heaven meet. It is in the quiet daily life we live where things seem...
Scott, started following Jesus at 24 from a life drugs, illicit sex and all that goes with it. He believed in Jesus but was not interested in following. It is possible to be believing the right things and in the right God but living in the wrong path. So one day after a close shave...
At the table of communion we meet a vulnerable God. Open enough to tell us that he has longed to share it with us and open in u story say that he wants us to always remember him. At the table of communion, we do not just bring to memory what Jesus did for us,...
