“We have been looking at our family history in our series Looking backward, moving forward. In this interview with a member of our prayer team, we learn how very different the subject of family history can look for some people in our community. This is a very personal story of Gods unfolding plan and a...
Honour is a big deal in the Kingdom of God. Honour is what sustains relationships. We can only follow Jesus well in community. How can we honour each other when the culture of our day is one of contempt, anger and resentment? How can we, in Paul’s words, “outdo each other in honour”? We cannot...
The Invitation into the community of Jesus is an invitation to be part of a family.
As we dive into the story of the book of James this week, James encourages us not to give up when the journey is hard, he encourages us to hold on. The journey of transformation is about leading us to a place where our desires are formed again into what God intended them to be in...
We find it difficult to define our true identity as the church or as Christians because we are all focused on ourselves, If everything else was stripped away, at the core, who will we remain as? Who are we meant to be? Experiences, events, conversations, have shaped or are shaping who we are, but we...
The followers of Jesus must have noticed something about how Jesus prayed that led them to ask him to teach them how to pray. Even though they were from a culture that had regular prayers, there was something about how Jesus prayed that was different and drew them. It is that Jesus enjoyed prayer. For...
Jesus has been inviting us To follow Him and become his disciples and learn from him so that we can find rest. But The biggest impediment that hinders people from following Jesus is hurry.it is the greatest enemy of spiritual life in our day the evidence of our souls being hurried is how busy we...
Here is the thing, here is the mystery and good news. Through faith in Jesus Christ, we are a new creation. God has already called out of us who he created us to be. When God looks at you he is not seeing anxious Betty, or lustful Edgar or prideful John. No, he is seeing...
When we read the accounts of Jesus life, we can read about the way he encountered people wherever he went, and how He brought the Kingdom of Heaven to earth. We can read of Him healing the sick, casting out evil spirits, bringing good news to the poor and justice to the oppressed. When we...
Imagine the scene that Jesus has died, he has then been raised back to life and he has told his disciples to go ahead of him his group of friends that by then they were 11, they had stayed close with him and he invited them to go up on to this mountain with him...
