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...
As we spend our time with Jesus, as we obey Him and not ourselves and our cultures through the power of the Holy Spirit we become like Jesus. Our demeanor and desires begin to even be replaced. Everything we see in Jesus. The life we see in Jesus that we so desire we soon become that. Jesus had no anxiety, completely at peace. Jesus was full of joy. He was full of faith even in trying times. Jesus was completely one with the father. He was patient, gentle, good. Everything that we desire in Jesus as we spend time with him in obedience we become through the power of the Holy Spirit. Yet here is the catch, we cannot desire the life but not the lifestyle of Jesus. The life we see in Jesus is a result of his lifestyle. That is why he invites us to apprentice under him. He literally is inviting us to take his lifestyle upon us.
