Even satan participated as a witness that things can change he tempted Jesus to change /turn stone to bread, all things can change under certain conditions, what you now see is waiting for you to initiate a condition for it to change. if we just call the situation and stop there that is lamentation but...
Sermon Tag: <span>Hope</span>
STANDING FIRM IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM
In the midst of turmoil and tribulation, we are required to stand firm and hold firmly to our faith, holding on to the truth. when we are faced with trials God is simply shaping us he is refining us to become better people of faith.
Anchored in Unchanging Hope
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...
Bringing Grief into Conversation with Jesus.
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...
Confessions in Confinement
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...
God of all Comfort
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...
Slow Kingdom Coming
From the time the seed of the Kingdom is planted to when the fruits are seen there is ‘the meantime’. How do we hang on in that tension? In that radicle middle? We keep hoping, we keep praying, we keep waiting. And We keep looking at what God is doing in the meantime. It is...
The Story of the Kingdom of God is Too Good and It’s True
Jesus invites people to change their mindsets and belive the Good News of the Kingdom of God. And the world needs hope, the world is looking for God. Our souls are in need of breathing. But we often sometimes have ideas, attitudes, mindsets grown from our culture that make us unable to participate in the...
Raised in Promise
God always leaves seeds of promise in our most broken places. Surprisingly, even when death snatches life, there is usually an explosion of life in that moment as people see the life and beauty that the person we have lost actually had without being blinded by focusing on their weaknesses and brokenness. What then would...
We Trust God for Everything
We are called to be a church of the Kingdom of God. What that means is that we will Trust God for everything. We long to see God’s Justice here on the Earth, God’s life here on the Earth and the demonstration of God’s power here on the Earth just as it is in Heaven....