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Everyday Jesus
Heather Helbig Last night, Jon- Mark led the Zoom group and looked at Luke’s recount of Jesus in the boat in the storm. We used the method of Lectio Divina which aims at hearing what God wants to say to us, speaking through scripture. The passage is read four times, and we look for that […]
Simple Christianity – Back to Basics
Brad Newell Introduction The beautiful miracle about the Bible is that its message is simple enough for a child to understand and complex enough to keep scholars discussing, debating, and exploring its content for centuries. There is certainly no shortage of information for Christians to sink their teeth into today, with access to the internet […]
Let’s Talk About The Will of God
So far in our current series on the will of God, we have learned that there is the general or revealed will of God, which is given to us through scripture, and the mysterious will of God. Often, we can complicate these ideas and so I want to revisit some of the main points we have talked about from scripture. Remember the example of Moses in Exodus 3:11-12? God […]
Let’s Talk About The Kingdom of God
For the last while, we have been going through a series on the Kingdom as a church. As we’ve been discussing, we know Jesus came to announce that the Kingdom of God is at hand and that this Kingdom was at the centre of His ministry – everything He said flowed from this purpose: He […]
Let’s Talk About Communion Part 2
Taking communion in church doesn’t make you a Christian. It doesn’t save your soul or get you into heaven. God actually warns us about approaching communion without considering what it means and why we’re doing it. We can fool ourselves into thinking, “you know what? At least we’re doing something, and something is always better than nothing.” But if you look in scripture, there are […]
Let’s Talk About Communion Part 1: Koinonia – Fellowship
“We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.” 1 John 1:3 The word ‘communion’ comes from the ancient Greek word koinonia (κοινωνία) meaning ‘fellowship’, which stems from the word koinos (κοινός) […]
Let’s Talk About Worship – Worshipping with A Broken Heart
The Bible tells us to “rejoice always” (1 Thess 5:16) and let our mouths be filled with His praise, declaring the Lord’s splendour all day long (Psalm 71:8), but worshipping God doesn’t always come easily. What do we do when life has left us feeling too empty to sing, let alone lift our hands in praise? We know that we […]
Let’s Talk About God’s Presence
In scripture, one of the most striking examples of the presence of God bringing transformation is Jesus’ transfiguration on the mount. Here we see the God’s presence transfigure, or, transform Jesus so that for a moment, the disciples saw a physical manifestation of God’s glory. The word transfiguration comes from the Greek “metamorpho” which means […]
Let’s Talk About How You View God
This month, I would like to start by asking you the question: How do you view God? Do you see him as aloof? Distant? Unfair? Take the time to think about your answer and have a moment of honest self-reflection. Your answer to this question will determine your interactions and relationship with God. AW Tozer […]
Let’s Talk About What Makes a Church
We have been going through a series about what it means to be a part of this thing we call Church. We have already spoken about how the real meaning of Church refers to a people, not just a building or place (see Romans 16:5), and that the Church is the body of Christ, of […]
Let’s Talk About What We Are Created For
When giving our testimonies, we Christians tend to talk about what we’ve been delivered out of – we tell how we’ve been saved from drugs, or gambling, or some other circumstance – but it does no good to stop there. We need to go a step further and ask: what have we been saved into? We get a […]
Let’s Talk About Abundant Life
On Sunday, we began in Habakkuk 2:4, “See, the enemy is puffed up; his desires are not upright— but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness”. We journeyed through Romans 1:16, Galatians 3:11, and Hebrews 10:38, where we saw a pattern establishing: the righteous shall live by faith. The life mentioned in these scriptures […]
Lets Talk About the Church
What do you think of when we speak of The Church? Is it a building? Is it tradition? Is it an interruption to your otherwise relaxing Sunday morning sleep in? The church is God’s idea, and the church is us! It is who we are and is a part of our identity, that’s why we […]