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Encountering the Stranger, Encountering the Divine
Hospitality shared with a stranger, with joy, is encountering God.
Source Of Life!
We may find that our faith is becoming less about having to love and believe in a God ‘out there’ so much as about wanting to become part of what God loves and is wanting us to be doing ‘right here’.
Motivation: An examination of what (or who) drives us…
What would you say in your life is NOT meaningless?
Prayer
We need to be taught WHAT to pray for, and so also WHAT NOT to pray for.
Good Things & Good People
Do good things happen to good people?
Well, Honestly!
The point is that all of us are carrying stuff that we may be quite unable to let go. Psalm 25 models how we are given to respond to it all! Beginning with the outward praising of God!
The Praise God Wants
We, the church, for better or worse, are the Body of Christ, and that means we are still the primary way the risen Christ is choosing to take up room in the world.
Costly Discipleship
So, what does it cost to be a Christ Follower: A Christian?
Upstream
Every actual encounter with the living Jesus Christ always actually changes us! ALWAYS!
Esther: Alive For Such A Time As This!
Remember who you are! Recognise where you are! Know now the point of your existence and live into it!
The Pentecost TEACHER
Today is Pentecost – our celebration of the Holy Spirit being poured out into all of creation! We first encounter the Holy Spirit at the very beginning of the Bible, in the creation narratives of Genesis, where we’re told of the sacred hovering [i] of God’s Spirit over all creation, and then also as God breathed [ii] life into the first of humanity. [iii] Later in the Old Testament we read of how the Holy Spirit came upon certain people…
Earth-Shaking Events
Like an earthquake, our ground can shift. How will this transform us?
Called Alongside
It’s our mandate to help all the world to become more ‘God-aware!’
LOVE! What is that?
How have you known love in your life?
Mothering Sunday
On Mother’s Day, we remember how the mothering spirit makes room for each of us.