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

The good news of great joy

Romans 8 - Part 4

Romans 8 - Part 3

Romans 8 - Part 2

Romans 8 - Part 1

Galatians - Part 11

Galatians - Part 10

Galatians - Part 9

In Galatians 5:1-12, Paul describes and defends the freedom, favour and faith that are ours for the taking. It’s the gospel – not our good works – that truly transforms us by the power and presence of the Holy Spirit.

He who began a good work in you

Ken Costa

Galatians - Part 8

Romans 8

Galatians - Part 7: You are all sons of God

Galatians - Part 6: You are all sons of God

Galatians - Part 5: Law vs Covenant

Galatians - Part 4

Galatians - Part 3

Galatians - Part 2

Galatians - Part 1

The Day of Atonement

Jesus on the cross. 
Jesus said I thirst in order to fulfil prophecy. They gave him something and then He said it is finished!! Nothing left to accomplish!!
There is nothing more that can be done.
Jesus was established as the creator of all things right in the beginning. Jesus is also the redeemer of all things right from the beginning. Jesus took full responsibility for everything created through Him.
Jesus Created and Jesus Redeemed.
He made a covenant before time began. That covenant was made with Jesus and the Holy Spirit. And it was set that Jesus will lay down His life for us before time began. We are beneficiaries of that covenant, but we were not a party to it. It was set long before we were born.The perfect plan was already established.
Before time began, it was established that Jesus will be the Lamb if God. The eternal plan was established in Christ in that He would lay down His life for us and pay with His blood for us.
The Father established Jesus as the High Priest forever in the order of Melchizedek. The eternal purpose was established in Christ.
Once it was established, then God created the heavens and the earth and everything in it and established his bride (you and I).
Every profit prophesied that the Messiah will come and John the Baptist said “There He is, the Lamb of God”! then Heavens opened and Father said that’s my beloved Son, in him I am well please.
In the OT you had to bring the lamb. It had to be spotless. The priest inspected the lamb not the person.
When John said, there is the Lamb of God, Father said, “That is My Son, I completely accept Him”. Jesus came He was the perfect lamb. He was spotless. God was pleased with Him. Jesus paid the price for us, Once and for All.
Jesus went to the cross, paid with His blood and established a perfect salvation.
Isaiah says our righteous works are like filthy rags. We can do nothing to earn our salvation. If we try, we only detract from that.
The basics of the Word is:
•    Who Jesus is.
•    What He accomplished on the cross.
Gal 3, the enemy wants to drag us away. Want to bewitch us, trying to get us to work for our salvation.
In the Gospel there is no opportunity for us to boast. It’s all works, Jesus’ works alone!! Because of His Finished work, we are saved by Grace. It is a free gift, Nothing else. Boasting excluded completely from the Gospel.
The 7 things Jesus did on the cross – the 7 Sprinklings of blood:
Liv. 16:10 – Day of atonement, lasting only one year. It was temporary. The priest will go into the Temple, sacrifice a lamb on behalf of his own sins, go into the most Holy place of atonement and make atonement for his own sin, and sprinkle blood on the altar. Then he would go out and pic one of two goats (Sacrifice goat or Azazel goat – one to send away). Which one to sacrifice and which one to send away. After sacrificing the sacrifice goat, the high priest will go into the most Holy place and poor the blood of that sacrificial goat on the mercy seat. Because of the blood on the mercy seat, no longer did Justice and Righteousness (two angles on the ark of the covenant looking onto the mercy seat) cry out against Israel, they looked upon the blood on the mercy seat and said it is forgiven for one more year.  He would then sprinkle the blood in front of the mercy seat 7 times and he would come out and lay his hands on the other goat (Azazel) and confess the sins of the nation onto the goat. This goat would then be led out and usually after days of travel, kick the goat off a cliff. You don’t want that goat to come back. Sins are paid for, but only for one year. Next year the high priest would need to do it again.

1.    Expiation – Jesus removed my sin from me and declared me righteous. My sins are paid for. Heb. 9, the currency for the cleansing of sins, is the blood of Jesus. We either pay with our blood (which cannot atone for my sin), or we accept Jesus paid with His blood.
2.    Propitiation - Jesus absorbed God’s wrath. Removal of God’s wrath for you. His blood speaks for us if we believe in His Finished work.
3.    Redemption - Jesus bought me back from bondage. I am free. My debt is paid.
4.    Justification - It is a legal term – paid for. Jesus paid the price for you so you can be declared innocent. Rom 5:9
5.    Sanctification - Jesus set me aside for sacred use, He made us holy by His blood. Heb 13:12
6.    Reconciliation - Jesus restored my full relationship with God. I can be as close to Him as I want to be.
7.    Regeneration - He doesn’t rehabilitate our sinful nature he kills it. Baptism is a sign that I died and He sealed me in Christ and nothing can change that ever again. We live in Christ. Jesus purchased a brand new life for us.

Saying Amen

Repent because God is near.
Repentance is not saying sorry; it means getting a new brain. Change the way we think and see things differently.
We mustn’t think out of the box, we must think as if there is no box.
Where we are, we can release the Kingdom. We ask Jesus to unlock the Kingdom but He has given us the keys!
Jesus did everything else – “It is Finished”. Then He gave us the keys to unlock it.
God qualified anybody who is in Christ to inherit His promises. We don’t qualify ourselves. Inheritance is not something you work for, someone else worked for it.
Jesus earned it and we got it when Jesus died as an inheritance.
Col 1:11-14 - he HAS qualified you
Rom 8:16-17 
Heb 11:39-40 - Abraham had not received his promise because Jesus had not died yet. Heb 9:16-18 - When Jesus died, we got access to our inheritance. 
Prodigal son - older brother did not understand that he did not have to work for his inheritance.
Access to our inheritance comes by FAITH! 
We are qualified by our belief in the finished work of Christ.
Rom 4:13-16 - If you believe in Jesus you are an heir of Jesus and an heir of the promises made to Abraham. 
If we come in the name of Jesus, the Father will give us what we ask for.
Rom 9:30-31 - Israel were trying to attain righteousness by keeping the law (older brother).
It doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter how I live! God gives us the power to live a life that is pleasing to God.
2 Cor 1:18 - We say Amen not by our own works but through Christ and what He has done. On this basis we have access to every promise because Jesus has taken every curse on Him.
You have access to your inheritance if you believe! We don’t ask in our name; we ask in Jesus’ name!

The crisis that nearly happened

We are the people of God

• They were people of God on the move
• They took people with them: “Come with us, we’ll do you good”
• Come with us, not to us. They people are on the move. There is an inheritance waiting.
• There is something unheard of ahead, we’re going there. Come with us.
If someone knocks on my door and ask me to go with them, I will first ask some questions:

1. Who are you?
• We are children of Abraham. God invited Abraham to go with Him. God said I’ll take you to a place. Abraham
believed God. God Started with one man but God has His eyes on all the earth, for all to become children of
God. Moses even though he could remain in the palace, saw treasures in the slave’s community, the children
of God, and decided rather to be with them.
• They were rescued slaves. God brought them out of Egypt through the red see. God told them to take a lamb
and when He sees the blood, He’ll passed over them – thus only the first born of the Egyptians died, but Israel
were saved through the blood of the lamb. Ultimately Jesus gave His blood and when God sees that blood on
our hearts, we are forgiven. As Israel, we were once slaves, now we are all free.
• God takes them to Sinai and makes a covenant with them. He calls them “His special treasure”. We are the
people of God, His special treasure”.

2. Where are you going?
• Psalms 1 is the 1st song of Moses. We going into a land. Into an inheritance. For them it was the land they
will inherent, for us it is a miniature picture of the Holy City. We need to go into all the world. All the earth
will be filled with the glory of the Lord. Come with us to experience what we experience. Live in what we
live in. Ps 2:8. God’s plan for us, is to be involved in all the nations. Where are we going? We’re going into
all the earth to preach the gospel. Matt. 28 “Go into all the nations...” At our workplace, home, city, etc.
Matt.24:14 “... then the end will come...”
• God wants a community. God wants a community that lives in contrast to the world. Live for one another.
When Peter preached 3000 people were added. Don’t just look in. Become part of the journey, don’t just
look in. We work together in community.
There are 2 cities: Babylon is on the one side, and the Holy City on the other. Which city are you in? Be added
to the people, come with us, don’t look in, rather tuck in, we going to the Holy City. Babylon will end. The
Holy City will last forever.
• He takes us not only to the land, but he is taking us into the sanctuary. From rebellion to worshiper. Now we
are God’s temple. We are not confined to a venue. We are the worshippers in spirit and in truth. Ephesians
2:21 We going into all the land, we going to build community and we going to worship Him.

3. What happens when I join you?
• Come into the body and you can be “eyes” for us. You have a part to play in the body. We all come, we all
have a part to play.
You not taking over, you only coming to play your part.

4. Why are you so confident?
• Because the Lord promised us good.
• There is faithfulness, renewing grace, He who began the good work in you will be faithful to complete it.
God’s on the move and we’re just moving with Him. Nations change when God steps in.
• God’s preparing a people and want you to be part of it.
• The invitation is here. Come with us, we’ll do you good. We carrying God’s history “His-Story” into all nations.

Sow that Seed

Gabe Phillips – September 2 - Sunday PM
Background: Sow that Seed
Matthew 4:18-22 NIV
“As Jesus was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his
brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow
me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and
followed him. Going on from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his
brother John. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Jesus called
them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed him.”
If you want to grow you need to sow. It’s the law of nature.
3 Postures of sowing:
1. Lean In
- Jesus says “come”
- Jesus is not looking for the qualified, He is looking for the available.
- Breakthrough has come and His name is Jesus Christ
- Quite blaming the soil for our lack of growth
- Discipleship start with our response to follow Him.
- Intimacy with Jesus leads to influence
- “Lean In” – It starts with our response
2. Step Out
- Religion = obsessed with me. Relationship = obsessed with Jesus.
- Religion = obsessed with where you’ve been. Jesus is obsessed with where He is taking
you.
- True Obedience:
o is immediate. Delayed obedience is disobedience
o is complete. Don’t obey halfway.
o is Costly.
§ Don’t ask God to use us and then we leave because we feel used.
- Obedience is seed sown into your future.
- Radical futures demand radical obedience.
- Seeds sown in faith leads to future.
- Obedience leads to Future – “Step Out”
3. Raise Up
- It’s not about me, it’s about other people.
- Maturity is sowing seeds into other people’s lives.
- On the other side of your obedience people are waiting – “Raise Up”
Life Group Suggestions for Discussion:
Welcome to go through the notes and ask the question: What touched me through this
message?

Make a move

Gabe Phillips – September 2, Sunday AM

The Gospel is about moving forward.
Hebrews 11:24-26 (NLT)
“It was by faith that Moses, when he grew up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.
He chose to share the oppression of God’s people instead of enjoying the fleeting pleasures of
sin. He thought it was better to suffer for the sake of Christ than to own the treasures of Egypt,
for he was looking ahead to his great reward.”
Moses did 3 things:
1. Make a Move to Refuse.
- He violently rejected illegitimate identity.
- Don’t tolerate what God called you to exterminate.
- Move by faith, not by intellect or reason.
- Violently refuse the words unqualified
2. Make a Move to Choose
- Faith is an active word. It’s more important what you say YES to than what you
say NO to.
- Moses chose to share in the oppression of God’s people instead of enjoying the
fleeting pleasures of sin.
- Sometimes God gives us off ramps. Is it your off ramp? Should you make a
move?
- We not victims of circumstance, we prisoners of hope. Do you want to get well
and be set free? Make a move.
3. Make a Move to Look Ahead
- Moses was looking ahead to his great reward.
- Don’t be overwhelmed with the right now.
- Christ is our power and pleasure.
- Christ is the rewarder, but also the great Reward
- Christ is the one who sets free, but He is also our freedom.
- Christ is the one who provides, but He is also my provision
- If our eyes are low, so our expectations.
- Where are you looking for your joy and future? Don’t be strangled by what is
around you.
John 5 - Man at the pool - Move, Just do It. (NIKE), stop the excuses.
Are you stuck:
- Between your pain and your potent?
- Between your comfort and your calling?
- Between your frustration and your future?
Today you can decide to “Make a Move”.
Life Group Suggestion for Discussion:
Welcome to go through the notes and ask the question: Where do I need to Move OR what
touched me through this message.

Courage to live in South Africa

Listen and Obey

Adrian and Antoinette Quinlivan on the coming Church plant in Stellenbosh.

The Call 2018 – Session 07

The Call 2018 – Session 06

The Call 2018 – Session 05

The Call 2018 – Session 04

The Call 2018 – Session 03

The Call 2018 – Session 02

The Call 2018 - Session 01

George Geogiou

7 People,1 Saviour – The criminal - Part 2

7 People,1 Saviour – The criminal - Part 1

7 People,1 Saviour – The sinful Woman

7 People,1 Saviour – Zacchaeus PM

Even tax collectors can meet Jesus.
Crowd hated Zacchaeus. That’s why he didn’t go into the crowd.
Maybe he wanted to see Jesus, but the crowd that followed Jesus prevented him.
We don’t, not serve Jesus in everything because we don’t love Him, but because we love something else a bit more. That is idolatry.
Idolatry doesn’t make sense, but only make sense if you love something else more than you love Jesus.
Zacchaeus loved money more. What do we love more?
If the idols get dealt with, it will be replaced with something far greater. Zacchaeus let go of his love of money, and Jesus stepped in.
We could be Zacchaeus? OR
We could be the crowd?
The crowd who followed Jesus, hated what Jesus did when He paid attention to Zacchaeus. Are we sometimes stumbling blocks for others to have an encounter with Jesus?
When Zacchaeus responded to Jesus, Jesus didn’t address his issues, Jesus loved him. Jesus was prepared to go outside of His own culture to love people.
We love influential people and talk about them. We love power.
Are we prepared to hang out with people outside of your culture and comfort? Hospitality is a Biblical requirement. Hospitality is part of the Gospel.
Corinthians = if I do not have love, I am worth nothing.
Are we loving people? Are we being hospitable?
Hospitality is not to entertain! It’s an attitude of loving people.
Luke 4 says: Jesus left. He went to the other town. We also need to continue to go. Luke 18:9....(Read the rest)
“To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.”.......
⁃ Jesus tells a parable. We have a choice: be like the one or the other.
Luke 18:18.... (read the story)
“A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone.”....
Zacchaeus’ story similar.
⁃ Jesus loved both, Zacchaeus and the rich you man.
⁃ The one did what Jesus said, the other did not.
⁃ The ones household was saved, the other not.
⁃ The one let go of his idol, and the other not.
What do we need to let go of in order to take hold of ..... ?
Jesus demands that we have His presence.
When we get what Jesus did and continues to do for us it will revolutionize us. Let’s allow Him to complete to good work He started in us.

7 People,1 Saviour – Zacchaeus AM

7 People,1 Saviour – The Leper

7 People,1 Saviour – A thirsty Woman

7 People,1 Saviour – The blind man

7 People,1 Saviour - Nicodemus

Adopted To Sonship

Exodus Part 25

Exodus 3:7-8

What do we learn about God’s heart and intentions from this text? (rescue & bless)

OUT OF = Rescue (deliverance)
INTO = Blessing (inheritance)

Main theme = The motivation for living well is found in the ‘OUT OF’ and ‘INTO’ reality of God’s saving work.

NT text that supports this notion; 1 John 3:2-3
OUT OF = ‘we are children of God’
INTO = ‘we shall be like him’

What happens when we put our hope in these two things? (righteous living is an inevitable consequence = ‘all who have this hope, purify themselves')

What happens when we focus on righteous living directly? (we become religious)

How does focusing on the cross of Christ (OUT OF) and the future inheritance (INTO) impact our lives when it comes to things like Identity, Intimacy, Purity, Humility and Security?

Exodus Part 24

The high priest in Exodus is a shadow of our High Priest – Jesus Christ. The High Priest is not the pastor. The High Priest is Christ.

Ex 39 - The robe of the high priest

The robe: BLUE, PURPLE AND SCARLET
-    BLUE = the color of heaven.
-    PURPLE = represents the king
-    SCARLET = color of blood

All 3 points to Jesus.

Breast piece of double folded Gold to show how valuable we are to God. Many kinds of stones
- All people close to Him
– God loves all kinds of people.
– God always keeps us close to Him.  Breast piece does not swing out . In difficult times we don’t feel close to God, that is only our perception. He is always close to us.

Why the turban / hat on his head? Your hair is your glory. Jesus had wavy black hair. Turban over it hides it. Turban covers your glory.
Jesus humbled himself and covered his glory.

Written on the forehead “HOLY TO THE LORD” – When we look at Jesus He confirms our destiny. Big shoulders - I’m carried there. I’m also carried on his chest (breastplate)

At the bottom, the garments surrounded by pomegranates and bells. There is Music and Fruit when we follow Jesus.  We produce golden bells music and fruit filled seeds when we follow Jesus.

The most important women to Jesus was His mother. On the cross Jesus said: John, there is your mother and Mother there is your son. John lay on Jesus’ chest. Now the church is the most important women (His Bride) to Him. Who does He entrust this women (Bride) to? The ones who lie on his chest, you and I.

1. Sympathy: Heb. 4:14
Such a great High Priest, sympathies with our weaknesses. Weakness means cannot control it. It’s outside your control. In weakness cry out to the great High Priest. If it depends on men, they will buckle. This role is only for Jesus, not for anyone else, not even a leader in the church.

2. Wholeness: Heb. 7:23
Jesus saves to the uttermost. Even the worst of the sinners can be saved. Jesus saves completely.

3. Clear Conscience Heb. 9:14
The High Priest cleanses my conscience. If I am saved, I should have a clear conscience from sin I have confessed.

4. Sat Down: Heb. 10:11
In the Old testament, the high priest had to sacrifice Day after day, Again and Again. We don’t have to offer sacrifices day after day - that never takes away sin. Jesus did it once for all and He sat down. I was once dead in my transgressions but now I’m seated with Him in heavenly places next to the High Priest. When I sin He is seated, not pacing up and down anxiously. No priest or elder can ever take the place of the High Priest
(Jesus)

Exodus Part 22

Exodus Part 23

Presence and Purpose of God - Story of the golden calf

Ex 32:1-3 the Israelites waited long for Moses to come down from the mountain and instead of waiting, they ended up doing their own thing. Vs6 the people rose early to sacrifice.

Outside the presence of God: Aaron said: “Take off your earrings” = lead to idolatry and bondage.
In the presence of God: God said to Moses “take off your shoes” = lead to deliverance.

Do not pursue the Purposes of God without the Presence of God.

Ex 33:1 Go to the land I promised. I will give it to your descendants. Vs3. “but I will not go with you!!” Vs 4 they mourned and no one put on ornaments. Vs 6 they stripped off their ornaments. THEN in Numbers 9 - God leads them in a pillar of cloud by day, pillar of fire by night. They learned to wait and only move when the presence of God moves. 

7 pictures of when we pursue the presence of God:

1. Ex 33:19 God will cause goodness to pass in front of you... Vs34:6 The Lord, the Lord....
2. Ex 34:10 I’m making a covenant with you. ... look what I will do for you ...
3. Ex 35:2 commands of the Lord. When to work and when to rest. God knows what we need.
4. On the mountain God spoke to Moses 40 times about Aaron. God dreams about you. Like Aaron, do we sometimes exchange the presence of God for counterfeit. Let the presence of God bring God’s purposes.
5. Ex 33:8 the people stood at the entrance to their tents when they saw Moses. When they saw the pillar of cloud, Ex 33:10 They stood and worshiped. Leaders, as Moses, we need to usher in the presence of God.
6. Vs 11. Young aide Joshua didn’t leave his tent. Moses had a generational impact.
7. In the presence of the Lord: Ex 36:4, 5 the people brought to the Lord. In the purposes of the Lord: Ex 35:10 skilled workers came and did the work to the Lord.

The Call of God on your life

Stand firm, Press on, and count for Jesus

Exodus Part 22

Exodus Part 21

Exodus Part 20

Exodus Part 19

Exodus Part 18

Exodus Part 17

Exodus Part 15

Exodus Part 14

Peace with God

The unyielding love of Jesus

Exodus Part 13

Exodus Part 12

Exodus Part 11

Exodus Part 10

Exodus Part 9

Exodus Part 8

Exodus Part 7

Exodus Part 6

Exodus Part 5

Exodus Part 4

Exodus Part 3

Exodus Part 2

Exodus - Part 1

Ships of 3Ci

The Ships of 3Ci

- Worship

- Sonship

- Discipleship

George Barna: Nine key components to discipleship

1.  Passion 

2. Depth - objective is to plumb the depths of the faith and own it 

3. Maturity - reaching the highest potential in Christ

4. Practice - Not only knowing, but being Spiritually mature

5. Process - Not a destination but a journey

  6. Interactive - done in community, not isolation

7. Multifaceted - variety of means toward being built up in Christ

8. Lifelong 

- Stewardship

  - Fellowship

- Partnership

- Leadership

- Friendship

The Working, Waiting and Wonder

The Calls for Christmas

Lost and Found

Psalms - Part 17

Psalms - Part 16

Psalms - Part 15

Psalms - Part 14

Holy Ambition

Psalms - Part 13

Gospel Choreography

Psalms - Part 12

Psalms - Part 11

Psalms - Part 10

Psalms - Part 9

Psalms - Part 8

Psalms - Part 7

Psalms – Part 6

Psalms – Part 5

Psalms – Part 4

Psalms - Part 3

Psalms - Part 2

Psalms - Part 1

The Call - Session 7

Ross Lester

The Call 2017 - Session 6

Andrew Thompson

The Call 2017 - Session 5

Rob Botha

The Call 2017 - Session 4

Ross Lester

The Call 2017 - Session 3

Brand Pretorius

The Call 2017 - Session 2

Phil Dooley

The Call 2017 - Session 1

Phil Dooley

The Book of Mark – Part 26

The Book of Mark – Part 25

The Book of Mark – Part 24

The Book of Mark – Part 23

The Book of Mark – Part 22

The Book of Mark – Part 21

I have decided

Open my Eyes

The Book of Mark – Part 20

The Book of Mark – Part 19

The Book of Mark Part 18

The Book of Mark – Part 17

The Book of Mark - Part 16

The Book of Mark - Part 14

The Book of Mark - Part 13

The Book of Mark - Part 12

The Book of Mark - Part 11

The Book of Mark - Part 10

Nailed to the Cross

The Book of Mark – Part 9

The Book of Mark - Part8

Respond to God's call

The Word came to Jonah

What matters most in life

The Book of Mark - Part 7

The Book of Mark - Part 6

The Book of Mark - Part 5

Dreams: different, harder, longer, better

The problem with our dreams isn’t that their too big; it’s that their too small. They’re all about us. Our life. Our future. Dream bigger than that. Into the depth and height and width of the kingdom of God. Open up your mind and imagination to the Spirit of God… let him drip a dream in your heart.

The practice of the presence of God

Our Father who is in heaven

Living stones in the body of Christ

The Book of Mark - Part 4

The Book of Mark - Part 4

Unbroken

Mark - Part 3

Mark - Part 2

Mark - Part 1

A letter from prison

A desire for God

Life outside the garden

Prayer

Christmas Day 2016

Bless this mess

Restore Part 02

Cry out? What shall I cry?

Restore Part 01

Comfort, comfort my people says the Lord.

Nehemiah 21

Nehemiah 20

Nehemiah 19

Nehemiah 18

Nehemiah 17

Nehemiah 16

Nehemiah 15

Nehemiah 14

Nehemiah 13

Nehemiah 12

Nehemiah 11

Nehemiah 10

Nehemiah 09

Work the land. Love the people.

Nehemiah 08

City walls were built to declare independence.

Nehemiah 07

The sword and the trowel.

Nehemiah 06

Rebuilding the walls.

Nehemiah 05

Prayer and Practicality.

Nehemiah 04

Facing opposition.

Nehemiah 02

What moves God?

Nehemiah 03

Understanding the call of God.

The Call 2016 - Session 07

PJ Smythe.

The Call 2016 - Session 06

Nick Hardy

The Call 2016 - Session 05

Greg Haswell.

The Call 2016 - Session 04

Ross Lester.

The Call 2016 - Session 03

Nico Van Der Merwe.

The Call 2016 - Session 02

Ross Lester.

The Call 2016 - Session 01

Rory Dyer

Nehemiah 01

As we approach The Call Conference 2016, we ask 'What moves you?'

Make the circle bigger.

Invite and include those who are sitting on the sidelines.

Anointed to do good.

God anointed Jesus with the Holy Spirit and with power, and He went around doing good.

The power of ONE.

We are ONE church, and we are better together

One goal

Helping people discover their place in God's mission.

Becoming ONE.

Leading people to commit to a life of prayer based on the bible.

ONE Won.

Trusting that Christ's victory will be our victory in life.

Connected to the ONE.

A call to salvation through Christ.

Trustworthy

God is always at work, even when we don't understand His ways.

Hope

God is the God of hope in our waiting, in our wandering and in our wasting away.

Faithful

God knows what is best and He knows when is best.

Ruth 08

Jesus redeems us, our portion and our posterity.

Ruth 07

But Zion said, "The Lord has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me..."

Ruth 06

Bitterness roots itself in our hearts through harship, people, self-righteousness and when we think God got things wrong.

Ruth 04

Jesus redefines and redesigns us for the future He has for us.

Ruth 03

When life lets you down.

Ruth 02

Re-arranging our lives around God.

Ruth 01

Weeping. Working. Waiting. Wedding.

Mankind

Sunday 31 January

Comfort

Comfort, comfort my people says your God. Isaiah 40 vs 1

Live Pray Teach 3

Teach.

Live Pray Teach 2

Pray

Live Pray Teach

Live.

Deborah and Barak

I rise before dawn and cry for Your help. I have put my hope in Your Word.

Shibboleth

The men of Gilead asked the Ephraimites to say Shibboleth. If they said, “Sibboleth,” they seized them and killed them. Forty-two thousand Ephraimites were killed at that time.

Psalm 139

God always has a man, He always has a woman, and He always has a house.

The Judges

Orchestrated, designed and choreographed by God.

Gideon's Victory

The gift of limitation, the gift of worship and the gift of team.

Jephthah

The third generation is notorious for squandering their inheritance.

Gideon

Big trouble. Big question. Big Decision. Big God.

Samson

A flawed, distracted, defiant, dishonest,  disrespectful,  overbearing, arrogant, obnoxious and relationally challenged man of faith.

The 3rd Generation.

That day the Lord gave Israel the victory. Moab was made subject to Israel and the land had peace for eighty years.

Practise these things.

We apologize for the poor sound quality as we were experiencing technical difficulties.

Living with Jesus at the centre.

We apologize for the poor sound quality as we were experience technical difficulties.

The God who dwelt in the burning bush.

May the Lord bless you with the precious dew from heaven above and with the deep waters that lie below; with the best the sun brings forth and the finest the moon can yield; with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills; with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush.

Listen, my beloved.

Listen, my beloved. The winter is past, the rains are over and gone, flowers appear on the earth and the season of singing has come!

Follow Me...

Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. “Follow me,” Jesus said to him, and Levi got up, left everything and followed him.

How beautiful you are!

How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands.

I love you like...

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth — for your love is more delightful than wine. I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh’s chariot horses.

Hair, eyes, lips

His hair is wavy and black as a raven. His eyes are like doves by the water streams. His lips are like lilies dripping with myrrh.

Song of Songs

Listen, my beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills. My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”

Choose or Refuse

Every day we choose and refuse. We either choose integrity, credibility, obedience, faith, or we refuse integrity, credibility, obedience, faith. Moses chose to be counted with the people of God and refuse the worldliness of the royal palace - and the result was that he ended up in the back end of a desert. And again, God asks us to choose and refuse!

Revelation

Both the Kingdom of God and the city of Babylon are filled with sounds familiar to the life - or lack their of - found in their midst. What sounds fill your life?

In honour of John Donaldson

Jesus - bread of life, good shepherd, healer, redeemer, Lord and saviour. There's so much we can discover about Jesus through the book of John.

Friend, Worker, Sister, Soldier

To Philemon our dear friend and fellow worker, Apphia our sister and Archippus our fellow soldier, and to the church that meets in your home - grace and peace to you.

Supernatural or Superficial

Churches often fall into two clear categories, namely, those who are supernatural and those who are superficial. We as a church need the Holy Spirit to keep the kingdom alive in us and all we do.

Grace and Mercy

Let us hold firmly to our faith, and let us approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and grace to help us in our time of need.

Faith and Patience

We want each of you to show this same diligence to the very end - to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

Enter this rest.

All too quickly the message is crowded out by the worries of this life, the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things, and so no fruit is produced.

Who do you say that I am?

On the way, Jesus turned to his disciples and asked them, "What about you? Who do you say that I am?" Peter answered, "You are the Messiah."

Disciples not decisions

As he spoke about righteousness and self-control and the day of judgment, Felix became frightened. “Go away for now,” he replied. “When it is more convenient, I’ll call for you again.”

Suffering.

Paul considers the pain and persecution he endured at the hands of opposition as a pulpit that God uses to declare and bring about His kingdom.

The Bible.

The bible. It gripped a king's heart and his obedience changed a nation. A verse gripped a simple preacher's heart and his obedience brought about the reformation!

Partnering with God

We are saved completely apart from what we have done. Now, however, God calls us to partner with us as we are shaped more into the likeness of Jesus and as more of His kingdom comes in our lives.

Father

Three dads (Mordecai, the husband in Proverbs 31, and Joseph) thunder the wonder of being a father and show the heart of our Heavenly Father!

Azazel

We have all made decisions in our lives that we wish we never had. What do we do to appease these shameful, debilitating regrets? Azazel!

Follow me

What does it mean to put your faith in a Rabbie named Jesus? What would posses grown men to leave everything they know to follow Jesus and be covered in His dust?!  Matthew 4

The grace of God

The grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, training us to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives.  Titus 2

An attractive gospel.

So that, in every way, you will make the teaching of God our Saviour attractive.  Titus 2

Unanswered prayer.

You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. James 4

Standing still.

In all the travels of the Israelites, whenever the cloud lifted from above the tabernacle, they would set out; but if the cloud did not lift, they did not set out—until the day it lifted.  Exodus 40

When God is silent.

A Canaanite woman came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.” Jesus did not answer a word.  Matthew 15

Wait

While Jesus was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about."    Acts 1

It just so happened...

It just so happened that, when Zechariah’s division was on duty and he was serving as priest before God, he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to go into the temple of the Lord and burn incense.   Luke 1

An orderly account

With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.   Luke 1

Route 90 Road Map

In honour of William Tyndale was martyred in 1536 for translating the New Testament into English. His last words were "Lord! Open the King of England's eyes". Within a year afterwards, a bible was placed in every church by the King's command.

Xenophobia

When a foreigner resides among you in your land, DO NOT mistreat them. Leviticus 19.33

Dropzone

We are called to be a true witness in this, the capital city of South Africa. This is our dropzone, the place we are prepared for on Sundays, and the underlying calling we respond to on Mondays.

The God of Jacob

There's a 'Jacob' in all of us. Insecure, lonely, running from his past, grabbing at anything that offers significance. There's a God of Jacob standing in from of all of us. One who speaks louder than our past, who reaches out to us with His rest, who promises to never pass away, but rather to heal, restore and redeem.

Resurection Sunday

Easter often gets confined to Friday - the cross, the blood, our debt paid in full. However, there is more, wrapped up in the covenant of what happened on resurrection Sunday.

Good Friday

On this unprecedented day in history, God asks us...'Can I stand in your harm's way?'

Hot Cold - The Call

Whether we are in bondage, being dragged away by our bad decisions or living in a dark and lonely place, Jesus comes to us with hope, love, forgiveness and a future.

Hot Cold - The Values

What do we feel God is impressing on 3Ci to allow us to live a Hot/Cold Christianity, rather than wallow in a dull, dormant and domesticated (a.k.a. lukewarm) Christianity?

Hot Cold - The Redeemer

I have heard your cries, I have seen your tears, I know your pain and so I have come down to pry you loose from the grip of your oppressors. Exodus 3.7

Hot Cold - The Courage

We are NOT born again for safe, secluded, sanitized Christianity. We are NOT born again for dull, dormant, domesticated Christianity. Turn down the what?!

Hot Cold - The Garden Part 2

I find no flaw in you, and I have found no flaw in you. This is Kingdom living!

Hot Cold - The Garden

Fastidiousness -  being excessively particular, critical or demanding; hard to please.

Hot Cold - The Church

God's plan has always been and will always be to reach our city through the local church. God's plan has always been and will always be to reach you through the local church.

Hot Cold - The Ears

Are your ears awake? Are your ears awake? Today if you hear his voice, do not harden your heart, but listen and respond.

Hot Cold - The Voice

The call to the seven churches is for us to have ears that 'are awake', but having heard, we are to turn, to respond, and allow God to do in and through us all that He wants.

Hot Cold - Philadelphia Part 2

When we pursue all that the world pursues, and desire all that the world desires, we will continually despise the doors God opens for us.

Hot Cold - Philadelphia Part 1

Hot Cold is about God getting into the details of our lives, putting His finger on where we are lukewarm, calling us to lean in on His grace and mature.

Hot Cold - Laodicea Part 2

God's commands can often seem overwhelming, but when we simply put one block on top of the other, what He works out in our lives is unprecedented.

Hot Cold - Laodicea Part 1

As we begin our new series Hot Cold, we dig into Revelation 3 and find that it's not that God wants us to be hot or cold, but rather that He wants us to be hot and cold.

January III

January II

January I

Worn

The festive season is the one time in the year when we are overrun by the western world's desperate desire for all things to be made right, and the over realised hope that this year will be THAT year! But what if I told you that instead of us distancing ourselves from this, we should be cranking this hope up?!

Jonah Part 08

What's the big story behind the book of Jonah? All the stories of whales and storms and ships and sailors can easily make things a little fuzzy. As we wrap up this series, we step back and see the power of God to forgive, save and deliver even the hardest of hearts.

Jonah Part 07

Jonah showed us how to reach a city kicking and screaming! Today we turn to Paul's ministry to see how we can reach Pretoria with intentionality and tact.

Jonah Part 06

God's call upon our lives is not just to deliver His message to the world, but to also represent His heart to those who are far from Him -  who would otherwise not know of His compassion, kindness, unrelenting love and forgiveness.

Jonah Part 05

God calls Nineveh great, not just as a discription of its size, but because it is His desire to invest us in this city and use it as a great instrument for His glory. However, in general, we kick back against the city and by so doing miss the rich call of God on our lives.

Jonah Part 04

The word of the Lord comes to Jonah a second time, and this time he obeys. The result? The people of Nineveh believe God and repent! History is full of unprecedented displays of God's power and glory on the back of a simple act of obedience to God's word. What has God been saying to you lately?

Jonah Part 03

The whole story of Jonah carries no significance apart from the statement that 'the word of the Lord came to Jonah'. There were many prophets, ships, sailors, Ninivites and cities like Tarshish, but when God spoke it put everything in context and brought a weightiness to every decision Jonah made.

Jonah Part 02

Jonah, in the belly of the whale, after three days and three nights without hope, on the back of a raging storm and a near shipwrecked journey, after running from the word of God and fleeing to Tarshish, FINALLY gets on his knees and surrenders to God. Surely we too can say 'I am Jonah, I am Jonah.' Surely we too can say 'God is merciful, God is merciful!'

Jonah Part 01

The story of Jonah is far greater than a simple Sunday school story. It is the account of the relentless pursuit of God for the heart of His people, so that His purposes would prevail and the earth would see the glory of our God.

Kim Midgley - Singleness

Kim Midgley - Trials

Wild Worship - The Purpose of Praise

Wild Worship - 7 Ways We Worship

Wild Worship - The Lamb

Wild Worship - Jehoshaphat

Wild Worship - David

Wild Worship - Isaac

Our eyes are on You.

Jehoshaphat faced an insurmountable enemy with a simple faith in the God he served and in so doing, passed on a message for years to come: When we don't know what to do, there is One whom we can always look to!

Philippians - New season ahead

As Christians we only have one plumb line - the Word of God. To have it in our hands is one thing, but to have it in our hearts and to live it, well, that's where God's kingdom truly comes and all that He has for us is added to who we are and what we are becoming.

Philippians - New generosity

Throughout the bible the people of God have been generous with their time, talents, treasure, opportunities and responsibilities. This is so because the God we serve has lavished us with His generosity.

Philippians - New satsifaction

Contentment is not circumstantial, rather it is learnt, and God will continue putting us through circumstances so that - and until - we learn to be content with little or with much.

Philippians - New hope

God has always had His saints working strategically in the midst of wicked places, from Caesar's household to the cubicle you occupy on a monday. However, if we are going to live well as light in these dark places, we are going to have to live according to our convictions and not our comfort.

Philippians - New wiring

Throughout the letter to the Philippians, Paul refers to their thinking because 'as a man thinks in his heart, so is he' and 'we are transformed by the renewing of our minds'. So when Paul refers to how we ought to think, he isn't trying to be cute, but rather he is preparing the Philippians for warfare!

Family Day

As family, we stand together, serve one another, celebrate together and mourn with each other. We do life, we do fun, we play and we pray. We do all this in order to serve our King as we see His Kingdom come.

The Call 2014 - Session 8

On the back of what God deposited into our lives during The Call conference, we celebrate the privilege, joy and delight of what we are called too.

The Call 2014 - Session 7

God's radical dealing in the life of Peter and his wife so often reflects the seasons in our own lives, and their victories shout courage into our frail hearts.

The Call 2014 - Session 6

Peter was a remarkable man. His letters were sent to churches in 5 cities across 4 provinces who were having the stuffing knocked out of them in persecution, opposition and hardship. This morning we look at the thrust of his message to them.

The Call 2014 - Session 5

In the final session, we look at the victories and the vulnerabilities of the call of God on our lives and the value of imparting this call to the lives of the generation rising up in our midst.

The Call 2014 - Session 4

The opinion of man can be the most intimidating, neutral-enducing, courage draining stronghold in our lives. And yet for many of us, we live with it as if it is normal.

The Call 2014 - Marketplace Missionaries

Recorded live at The Call conference

The Call 2014 - Wow Women

Recorded live at The Call conference.

The Call 2014 - Session 3

The central thrust, under-girding foundation and all encompassing essence of our call is to fall more in love with Jesus.

The Call 2014 - Session 2

We seldom realise that just like every other child of God, Jesus also had to come to terms with His call, His purpose and His Father's plan for His life.

The Call 2014 - Session 1

Can you trust God? Do you trust God? Is He trustworthy? Where else can we go?

No, seriously...where else can you go?!

Philippians - New disposition

The gospel leaves no part of our lives untouched - our hearts, decisions, finances, relationships, language, priorities, attitudes and everything else, all gets nailed to the cross.

Philippians - New perspective

Paul very clearly views every moment of his life, every decision he has to make and every circumstance he has to face through one lens - the day of the Lord, that great day when every single one of us will stand before the One who 'longs for us'.

Philippians - New maturity

Philippians chapter 3 is filled with some of the most popular verses in the bible. It's built around Paul's autobiography and it gives us deep insight into how God works in the lives of His children.

Philippians - New ways

Epaphroditus gets singled out in Philippians because he is a brother, a worker, a fellow soldier and a servant. They are attributes celebrated in the New Testament church, but often overlooked today. Where did we go wrong?

Philippians - New language

'Do everything without grumbling or arguing', says Paul to the Philippians. It's an issue that has plagued the people of God for hundreds of years, and is still an area that trip up many of us and leave us without credibility in the public eye.

Philippians - New default

At the very beginning of his letter, Paul tells the Philippians that there is one thing he prays for them with all the love in his heart, and that is that they would live abandoned to the wisdom and understanding of heaven, so that their lives would be a true reflection of the kingdom of God.

Philippians - New attitude

Studies show that the young generation believe that financial independence is true success and the best way to achieve this is to be at the top of a major corporation. They view any relationship that slows their ascent up the corporate ladder as a drag on their success and are willing to do whatever it takes to take their place at the helm of society.

Philippians - New community

We significantly compromise our chances of maturing in God if we live disconnected from the local church. Grace and peace are experienced in community, the good work He began comes to completion in community, you are carried in the hearts of elders and deacons in community. This is a huge blight on modern Christianity, where so many saints live and think they do just fine as lone rangers.

Philippians - New understanding

'Now I want you to know', said Paul, 'that what has happened to me has actually served to advance the gospel!' How does a person face such suffering with such strength?

Philippians - New beginnings

The letter to the Philippians doesn't ask much of us, it asks all of us! When we see what it is God is calling us to, our cry will be for the Holy Spirit to work radically in us, so that the gospel can flow unhindered through us.

Philippians - New Heart

God opened the heart of one lady who opened the doors of her home that opened the doors for the gospel, a church plant and eventually the letter to the Philippians which we are still preaching from 2000 years later!

#forgiven - Jesus

What happens when things go dry, when joy runs out, when we find ourselves spent, our hope lost, our strength gone? Jesus. That is all.

#forgiven - Sing

When God puts His finger on our sin, it's not to expose us, but to cover us. As a father, rather than condemn and reject us, He runs out to us, and gets between our sin and those who would stone us.

#forgiven - Yes

The King has risen. Long live the King!

#forgiven - Peace

The first word Jesus speaks after being raised from the dead is 'Peace'. God wants us to know the fulness of our forgiveness, so that we can enjoy the fulness of His pleasure.

#forgiven - Hope

If we turn the clock back 4000 years we see the heart of man fearful and suspicious then, just as it is now. We also see the heart of God throbbing and pursuing mankind then, just as it is now.

YouToo S01E10

Barnabas, son of encouragement, was a man who through his strong faith in what God was doing in others, made such an impression on the early church that nearly 2000 years later, we are still being impacted by his life.

YouToo S01E09

The bible is not a Hollywood script with heroes that are larger than life and have it all together. Rather, it's the story of plain, ordinary people's lives woven together by the Master's hand for His master plan.

YouToo S01E08

Leonard and Lorie Rutten, originally from Canada, spent nearly three decades ministering throughout Africa. We were privileged to have them serve on the eldership team at 3Ci for many years before planting a church in Edmonton, Canada.

YouToo S01E07

Leonard and Lorie Rutten, originally from Canada, spent nearly three decades ministering throughout Africa. We were privileged to have them serve on the eldership team at 3Ci for many years before planting a church in Edmonton, Canada.

YouToo S01E06

On numerous occasions in the book of Acts, we find the comment that 'the Word of God spread'. What was it that lead to these times? Was it something we can learn from and apply today? Of course! Here's how...

YouToo S01E05

What can happen in the shadow of an ordinary fisherman? One who denied Christ, fell asleep on Him at the darkest moment of His life, and then ran off to his fishing boat when everything seemed to have fallen apart? One ordinary fisherman, but one extraordinary fisher of men!

YouToo S01E04

The ministry of Lydia and Paul straighten out much of our distorted view of ministry. Together they show that bringing Jesus and the Kingdom to a dying world can flow through 'Even Me'.

YouToo S01E03

Whenever churches grow, we love to put systems in place to maintain the momentum. But the life of God is the LIFE of GOD - not based on structural authority, but on the presence of Jesus in the hearts of His people.

YouToo S01E02

God loves to take a man from Pretoria to meet a couple in Bazaruto, so that they can hear of the love of God that they so desperately crave. God thinks nothing of sending a lady from Botswana to meet a man from Durban in a city called Brisbane so that her hurt can be healed by the Mender of hearts. It's part of His pleasure and His plan for those we meet, and it will do us well to take notice of this.

YouToo S01E01

If you take the white off a golf ball, you'll find a ball of elastic inside, tightly wound together. It's impossible to cut through, but if you find the end of the elastic, the whole ball will unravel in your hands. This seems to be the way Jesus approached every person He met. He never used a set 'technique' to get to people's hearts, rather He found their end and before long their lives unravelled in His caring hands.

Terry Virgo - Works

There is a Saul in the Old Testament who, at the end of his life said 'I have played the fool'. There is a Saul in the New Testament who, at the end of his life said 'I have run the race, I have fought the fight!' God has plans for us and He wants us to fulfill them, to be good stewards of His manifold (multicoloured) grace.

Terry Virgo - Holiness

Martyn Lloyd-Jones used to call Romans 6 the most freeing chapter in the bible. But how do we live in this freedom? Is it up to me from here on, or is there a secret to a holy life?

Terry Virgo - Team

Just when the disciples are expecting Jesus to come as king and are fighting over potential positions in His kingdom, Jesus compels them to get into a boat and head into a storm. The storm was bad, but their thinking was even worse. Early promotion, positions or public ministry are far more dangerous than we'd like to think.

Terry Virgo - Grace

When we truly understand grace we will never be the same again. If Christ was the end of the law, if the law is obsolete and if we have been discharged from it's authority, what does that mean for us as Christians?

Father,Son,Spirit-Part 4

February 09:

The Holy Spirit, the gift and seal of our salvation, is in many cases shunned by those He was given to. Whether it be due to misunderstanding, a bad experience or comments made by friends and leaders, the Holy Spirit - in stead of being embraced by His people -  stands waiting for us to turn to Him and to no longer live separated from the Spirit of the Living God.

Father,Son,Spirit-Part 3

February 09:

For some, we see the Trinity as the Father, the Son and the Holy Scriptures. For others it's the Father, the Son and the Holy systems! To be baptised into the Holy Spirit is the lifeblood of the church and the privileged presence of the Spirit of the Living God in the life of a Christian.

Father,Son,Spirit-Part 1

Our identity needs to come from God the Father. Our feelings are a bad barometer to use when we are going through tough times. This is why the truth of the word is so important, and why we need faith in what the Father says of us, not what our shaky, insecure hearts keep screaming at us.

January - Part 03

We apologies for the poor sound quality.

What would drive a man to take his wife and five kids to one of the poorest nations in the world to lead a church in a slum city? In his own words 'it was the only thing that made sense considering the urges that God had placed on my heart'. Not my will but Yours be done!

January - Part 02

To walk by faith simply means that we trust God, His wisdom and ways, more than we trust ours. Sounds simple enough, but for many Christians it's a massive shift from self-reliance to entrusting our decisions to our heavenly Father. 

January - Part 01

What does faith look like? We might know the theology behind it, but what about its outworking? In other words, how do we live by faith and why is it so important in this day and age?