The Great Commission and the Baptism in The Holy Spirit are two great events of the New Testament and are linked. Jesus told his followers to go, but not until they had received The Holy Spirit. Some Christians try to fulfill The great Commission without knowing the presence and power… (Read more)
How we choose to respond to things is so important! Peter responded to Jesus’ arrest from a place of anger and offence; Jesus rebuked him for this as this was not the Father's heart. Jesus responded to his arrest in love and with mercy, despite the overwhelming pressure he was… (Read more)
The backdrop of the Last Supper meal is celebrating Passover and the beginning of the Exodus. The disciples are getting together to celebrate freedom and liberation from slavery. It is in this setting that Jesus institutes communion as a way of celebrating his death, resurrection and the never-ending freedom… (Read more)
Life is God's gift to us. Death is it’s great enemy. Here we find a loving Jesus who chooses to wait, rather than quickly respond, when he is told his friend is sick. Yet Jesus is still willing to travel into “the danger zone” for his friends.
This talk looks at the context into which Jesus was born, the prophecy about himself that Jesus said he fulfilled, and the implications of that for us. It also looks at the humility of walking into a village with good news, not the way a king or ruler would normally… (Read more)
Jesus’ teaching through parables reveals hidden truths about the kingdom of heaven; there to be discovered if we have eyes to see and ears to hear. It’s a treasure worth giving up everything else for.
God loves the ordinary! God’s kingdom is built through ordinary people, living in ordinary communities, doing ordinary jobs! Let’s rejoice in the extraordinary but let us also rejoice in the ordinary as God is doing a work through it!