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This letter gives us another secret to growth and change to those of us who are feeling a little bit complacent. Maybe we feel a little more bored than blessed when we connect with church … Perhaps we feel a lot more attached to this world than we’d like - (who doesn’t struggle with that?) and looking us straight in the eye Jesus says - “I want you to see your need as you never have before. Then I’d be able to meet your need as I never have before.” John writes this way to the church in Laodicea - “To the angel of the church of Laodicea write, ‘These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds that you’re neither cold nor hot … I wish that you were one or the other … But you don’t realise you’re wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you get from me gold refined in the fire so you can become rich and white clothes to wear so you can cover your shameful nakedness salve to put on your eyes so you can see.” (Revelation 3:14 ff) Not easy words from Jesus but they end with his remarkable promise - “Look! I am standing at the door and I'm constantly knocking. If anyone opens the door I will come in and I’ll fellowship with him; I’ll relate to him, I’ll dine with him and he’ll fellowship with me.” (Revelation 3:20 – Message)
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Friday Nov 27, 2015
Friday Nov 27, 2015
All Christians are not alike!! We often have differences of opinion and find ourselves working out how to get along with people. Other people’s views can seem more “liberal” or more “conservative” than our own. Sometimes the differences in our points of view relate to matters that aren't particularly spelled out in Scripture. Listen now to hear Pastor Peter unpack this thought.
Friday Nov 27, 2015
Friday Nov 27, 2015
Jesus said, "I came to set you free." Sadly it’s true that many of us experience our faith as anything but freedom. We feel burdened and stressed out by life and, our practice of faith, has become “one more thing” in the struggle to stay afloat. Is there any way to “take the pressure down” and reclaim the joy we discovered when we began our relationship with God? Listen now to hear Pastor Peter unpack this thought.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
As humans we long to be both perfectly free and perfectly governed. We want lives of liberty and responsibility, freedom and accountability. In this new series, “The Liberated Christian” we’re going to be thinking about how those things fit together. The starting point is you and me. Only we can live our lives, so our life really is - “what we make it”. Listen now to hear Pastor Peter unpack this thought.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
So - the change that God wants to make in us, has to be more than just on the outside. If it’s only on the outside, it’s really not going to make any difference. And God wants to make the change in our lives from the inside out. It’s really is a total makeover. Listen now to hear Paul unpack this thought.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
The fact is, our habits and our regular practices shape our lives. It’s true physically, that our exercise and diet habits and practices have a significant role to play in our bodily health. The same is true spiritually. We can develop some spiritual habits and practices that have a significant role to play in our spiritual health. Listen now to hear Pastor Peter unpack this thought.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Who do we spend most of our time with? Family - parents, children, husbands and wives. For many of us we spend almost as much time with our workmates. These are the people who know us better than anyone. They see our strengths and our weaknesses. These are the people whose lives we are likely to affect the most. Listen now to hear Pastor Peter unpack this thought.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Today we’re going to talk about the God, who’s at work in our lives - working for transformation. He’s done it in every believer’s life. He’s doing it in your life right now, and it’s much more fantastic than we realise. He wants to give us a brand new life. Listen now to hear Pastor Peter unpack this thought.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Christian faith believes that Jesus is central to God’s purposes. The sustaining of God’s world and the redeeming of God’s world all depends on Jesus. When God’s new heaven and earth are fully revealed, we’ll see that “at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow.” The book of Colossians is really all about the preeminence of Jesus. Listen now to hear Pastor Peter unpack this thought.
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
Tuesday Nov 24, 2015
If you had a friend in another Christian congregation who had expressed to you their concern about teachings & practices going on within that congregation that were at variance with the central truths and practices in the bible, how would you respond? Would you or have you ever prayed or taken action in just such a circumstance? Listen now to hear Richard unpack this thought.
Friday Oct 09, 2015
Friday Oct 09, 2015
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to look back on our lives and see - “that life that I lived, it was worth living.”
Not just that it was fun - although it’s good to have fun. Not just it was exciting - although it’s good for excitement to happen.
But - “I lived a life that was worth living”…. Listen now to hear Pastor Peter unpack this thought.