Turn the other cheek

Emmanuel

A Place of Perfectly Timed Mercy and Grace

Mysterious Melchizedek

The Lamb on our lips and on our lives

Take a Look. Get a Grip.

Hebrews 12 shows us that if we Take A Look at Jesus – if we see Jesus clearly (and in His light, see ourselves more accurately) – we’re able to Get a Grip, and finish the year strong.

Look to Jesus

Religion says there’s something wrong with you and you need to fix it.
The Gospel says there’s something wrong with you and you need to look to Jesus!

Pleading with plastic for peace

The passionate commitment of the covenant of God

The Kingdom of God is at hand

What's your designation, address and priority?

In Psalm 90 Moses gives us a glimpse into the life of one of the greatest leaders our world has ever seen. Allowing us to see how he thought about himself, where he lived and what he lived for. This challenges us to ask 3 questions:

#1 What is your designation?

#2 What is your address?

#3 What is your priority?

Making sense of your past, present and future

Moses prayed, ‘Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.’ (Psalm 90:12) We believe we’re made for more than just getting through life. How do we wisely steward our one life – our past, present and future – so that our numbered days count for Christ in this life and the next?

Follow me

Where did we ever get the idea that following Jesus would lead to a life of comfort and convenience? Jesus is like smelling salts to our lives of mediocrity, waking us up as He calls us to follow Him on an adventure that gives us a radical new priority, new identity and new affection.

What we do while we wait

Walking into your inheritance is largely external - it happens to you. It can be a moment or a season when you enter a situation imposed on you by outside circumstances or events. Waiting, however, is largely an internal event. It’s where transformation happens and it’s crucial in our journey with God.

Great project, Great distraction, Great solution

Your story in His story

Praising God in the rubble and the trouble

Generous eyes

Generosity gives us the eyes to see the more that we are called to!

Another Moment

A moment

KNOW YOUR CALLING: Obvious Element. Obedience Everyday.

We know we’re made for more. We know there’s a call of God on each of our lives. But what does that even mean and how do we go about answering that call? What does it look like to go big before we go home, for eternity?

Made for More

Belaglik

God fights for your inheritance

6 Keys to taking ground

What moves you?

Luke - Part 23

Luke - Part 22 - He calls, heals, loves and fills me

Luke - Part 21 - Dinner with the Doctor

The gospels are full of accounts of Jesus healing people. In Luke 5:17-32 we see that Jesus is more intent on healing our souls than our sicknesses. But why does Jesus heal? How does He heal? Who does He heal? What should our response be when Jesus heals? What should our response be when He doesn’t heal?

Luke - Part 20 - Privilege, Promise and Pain

Luke - Part 19 - Community

The character of our shared life has the power to draw people into the kingdom of God or push them away from it. How we live together is the most persuasive sermon we will ever get to preach.

Father's Interference

Luke - Part 18 - The great adventure

Luke - Part 17 - Particularly for Rory Dyer

An appetite for more

Luke - Part 16 - The greatest invitation

As we start to immerse ourselves in the story of Jesus we see how He begins to say follow me, come change the world with me. That call goes out to ordinary men that would later become disciples of Jesus. That same call goes out to you and me, inviting us a life lived with God, to a partnership that is changing the world!

Luke - Part 15 - The Sermon that nobody likes

Luke - Part 14 - The Gospel according to Jesus

Ancient Truths for Modern Moms

As moms, we're supposed to comfort our kids - but it seems that, mostly, we need more comfort than they do. Where do we go, to find real comfort? And once we're comforted, how do we pass it on to our kids?

Luke - Part 13 - Exposing the negatives

Luke turns the genealogy around so that we will see Jesus side by side with "Adam the son of God" showing that "Jesus the son of God" is the new Adam who overcomes in the wilderness as He begins his ministry.

Luke - Part 12 - From water to wilderness

Jesus goes straight from the water (His baptism), into the wilderness (His temptation). In the water – the faith-building place of acceptance, blessing and commissioning – the Word of God came over Him. And in the wilderness – the desolate place of danger, rejection and fear – the Word of God came out of Him. This is a pattern, for us. Because for the rest of our earthly lives, it’s going to be all about the water, and the wilderness.

A Cleansing, Commissioning, Covenant

Through the first letter of the impulsive, ambitious and sometimes violent Peter we see a remarkable picture of a transformed, restored and equipped apostle (sent ones) of Jesus Christ. Peter is an example to us all of our need for covenant, cleansing and commissioning. From our sincere failed attempts at greatness to our glaring obvious shortcomings, all can be covered, all can be restored and all can even be used to the glory of God. Through Peter’s words we see Jesus and the effect of His blood impacting our lives in 5 transformative ways.

Good, Good Friday

Luke - Part 11 - The brackets of sonship

Pai lagi

Luke - Part 10 - Tone of the voice from heaven

Our biggest problem in life is that we listen to voices from earth and not from heaven. We live unsure of what God’s tone of voice says about us.

Luke - Part 9 - Ransom Stories - Tracing Luke’s preparation for Salvation

Through chapters 1, 2 & 3 Luke weaves a golden tapestry into the narrative like a string of pearls about Jesus the saviour, redeemer or ransomer. This is not just true in Luke’s gospel but all though history we have fictional and factual stories of ransoms being demanded, refused and paid. From Frank Sinatra’s son to Aldo Moro, from John Paul Getty the third to Walter Kwok Ping-sheung; story after story, ransom and ransom, confronting us with the inherent value of life especially a son or daughter’s life.

Luke - Part 8 - Baptism - What is it all about?

In Luke Chapter 3 we see how the word of the Lord came to John calling him to preach a message of baptism for the forgiveness of sin in preparation for the coming of Jesus. To understand the full implication of John’s message we need to understand baptism from a Biblical viewpoint.

Luke - Part 7 - Slow, Supernatural, Significant

How Mary fought for and defended the truth of God’s word to her can be seen by the detailed account she gives 60 years later. She clearly cemented these events into her memory, resulting in slow, supernatural, significant growth by responding to God’s word.

Luke - Part 6 - In the days of Cyril Ramaphosa how do you hear God?

Through fallen messengers with an un-fallen message, through the hardships of life and the truth of God’s word, God speaks to us, and shows us the way of humility as opposed to the way of power.

Building the Base

Luke - Part 5 - The greatest song in History

In Zechariah’ song (the Benedictus) we have a declaration of praise as we hear of our redemption, the horn of salvation, our cancelled debt and the dawning of a new day!

Luke - Part 4 - Embrace your purpose

From Mary's life and song, we can learn what it is to embrace our purpose - which is nothing more than to know God, and make Him known. (Luke 1:39-56)

Luke - Part 3 - Abundance intersects barrenness

 Receiving the gracious gift of the abundance of God to end the barrenness in our lives.

Luke - Part 2 - Introduction to the book of Luke

Church is not meant to be a preaching centre. We have been given the Word of God so that our lives, our nation and the world can be changed. Through Luke this week we learned two more reasons why we can believe the Bible.

Luke - Part 1 - Introduction to the book of Luke

Everything in life is influencing what we believe, in Luke we hear from reliable oral tradition, eye-witness testimony and detailed written record about what CS Lewis called the true myth.

Romans 8 - Part 6

What does God think of you?

The question what does God think of you, drills down to the core of our identity. It’s not what we think of ourselves that determines our identity, it’s not what others think of us, it’s not what God thinks about us, it’s what we think God thinks about us that affects our identity, and as we know our identity flows downstream and affects our entire lives.

The entire Bible is God’s answer to this question, but in Romans 8 we have one of the most detailed a. In this remarkable chapter we have one of God’s longest declarations of covenantal love towards us, where “you are described as one whom God himself finds worthy of pursuit, worthy of sacrifice and worthy of intimacy and love.”

Romans 8 - Part 5