Heart of the Matter

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Sunday 25 June 2017

The Old Testament is full of people - real people; whose lives are messy, their families dysfunctional and their obedience not always full or immediate, yet God used them.  Our study of their lives is to bring perspective, hope and instruction to ours - to recognise that at times we are tempted to sanitise or selectively interact with their stories and in that way make them heroes.  The reality is that their stories are powerful because they are human like us and face the same temptations and frailty that we do - yet God used them.

Today we look at Cain and Able. How do we respond to the situations we are presented with? The attitudes of our hearts are revealed by our response. Putting aside the should’s and could’s, it’s a matter of the heart.

“Why are you angry? Why is your face downcast? If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.” - Genesis 4:6-7

Appetite, Approval, Ambition

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Sunday 18 June 2017

We are starting into a new series in the Old Testament - the Old Testament is full of people - real people; whose lives are messy, their families dysfunctional and their obedience not always full or immediate, yet God used them.  Our study of their lives is to bring perspective, hope and instruction to ours - to recognise that at times we are tempted to sanitise or selectively interact with their stories and in that way make them heroes.  The reality is that their stories are powerful because they are human like us and face the same temptations and frailty that we do - yet God used them.

Today we start with Adam and Eve. They were the models of God's created intent, and in their wrestle with temptation and through the fall they also lay out for us the way in which every human is tempted, potentially deceived & goes astray.  The implications of human disconnect from relationship and the wrestle for power and control affects us all today - That is what we will unpack today.  We see in Genesis 3 there are three types of temptation and depending on our wiring one of them will be the one that gets us!

Live Unoffended

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Sunday 04 June 2017

Today is the day on the church calendar where we celebrate and remember the first Pentecost - the event we are named after! The birthday of the church where the Holy Spirit was poured out in power to equip the disciples of Jesus for the mission they were called to. Power and boldness for mission. A deeply transformational experience that changed those disciples for ever. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead, now poured out.
But that's not just a historical event. It's an ever present promise for us today too. We are called into mission and the equipping power and boldness is poured out by the Holy Spirit on us too.