STOP PRESS – URGENT!
I would be surprised if you were not aware of the persecution that many Syrian and Iraqi refugees have experienced at the hands of ISIS. I would be even more surprised if you didn’t know about the persecution that Christians especially are suffering.
We can act – and the time is now.
Sunday evening’s sermon ‘Gossip Pages’ (Mark 1:14-2:12) by Bernie Leo is now available: http://bit.ly/1k3eugZ
It is a helpful to stop every so often and think about what God has been doing around us and for us. There is much to celebrate. Yet, I think I am often thankfully challenged! In other words, I often fail to be thankful for much.
How would you answer ?
Humbly, I am not sure I am the one to determine what the biggest misconception may be, but let me offer this thought. I wonder if a key misconception that unbelievers have about Jesus is that he is dead!
Sunday’s sermon ‘Headline Act’ by Conrad Cabral is now available: http://bit.ly/1L5g6xt
Andrew Cameron’s three ‘Living In The Next Phase’ talks from the Trinity Spring Conference are now available for you to stream or download.
Talk 1: http://bit.ly/1OTZkav
Talk 2: http://bit.ly/1L31Rck
Talk 3: http://bit.ly/1ja3yOx
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where some obstacle gets in your way? Where your desire to get from one place to another is blocked by factors you find too hard to overcome. Normally this is not too great an issue. Just give up, or slowly find another way around the issue.
Increase the temperature. Imagine a life and death situation. A situation where the obstacle just has to be overcome because if not, you lose your life! The urgency will force you to take risks that you would not normally take.
Friends, I wonder whether we need to increase the temperature.
Sunday evening’s sermon ‘Singleness: Hopeful Contentment?’ by Simon Marshman is now available: http://bit.ly/1P6c391
‘The challenge for us is to live with an eternal perspective and a kingdom priority.’ – Simon Marshman
To be a Christian is to be someone who recognizes, more sharply and clearly than our world, that the creation story is not the end.
As early as Genesis 4 we are introduced to Lamech who took more than one wife, even the great Abraham had more than one wife and also had concubines.The Old Testament accounts report polygamy but they never hold it up as an example to be imitated. By the end of Genesis we’ve seen adultery, incest, rape, homosexual rape, prostitution – quite a bit more than we really were bargaining on.
The fall has damaged all of our relationships, especially and profoundly the marriage relationship.
The purpose of marriage is more than God bringing a man and a woman together to rule – the purpose of marriage is to bring a man and a woman together to relate sexually.
Back to Genesis. Let’s look at the flesh! The women is taken from the flesh of the man (2:21), to become flesh of his flesh (2:23) and to then join together as one flesh (2:24), naked and not ashamed (2:25) – this is sexual and deeply relational.
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