Today is the fourth Sunday of Advent: the Sunday of Love. Advent is a season of waiting, of expectation, of cultivating an awareness of God’s actions in the world—past, present and future. This morning we continue our Scarlet Thread series, looking at the women in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew's Gospel. Bathsheba married King David in scandalous circumstances, and was the mother of King Solomon. Bathsheba was a woman of strength, wisdom and self-giving love in a time of great uncertainty.
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Today is the second Sunday of advent: the Sunday of peace. Advent is a season of waiting, of expectation, of cultivating an awareness of God’s actions in the word – past, present and future.
This morning we are in the third week of our series focusing on the women who feature in the genealogy of Jesus in Matthew’s gospel. Today, we reflect on Ruth, a stranger in a foreign land, who left everything behind for her mother-in-law and still lived with peace in a time of uncertainty.
Today is the first Sunday of advent: the Sunday of hope. Advent is a season of waiting, of expectation- of cultivating an awareness of God’s actions in the world—past, present and future.
This morning we continue our series on the women who feature in the genealogy of Jesus in the first chapter of Matthew’s gospel. We consider Rahab, a prostitute, an outsider, who became a voice of hope for God’s people looking for new beginnings.
This Sunday we are starting a series called The Scarlet Thread—looking at the women in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew. Today we consider the story of Tamar from Genesis 38.
This morning we conclude our series on Ephesians: Big Energy in Little Spaces. We centre our attention on communion—a practice that connects us into God's story—the 'Big Energy'—God's plan for the cosmos, realised through the person of Jesus. Communion also prepares us for the 'Little Spaces'—working out what it means to be part of God's story in our community of faith and where we live and work.
Today we finish the last chapter of Ephesians—Ephesians 6:10-24. This morning we will think about Paul’s challenge to the church at Ephesus to stand firm as followers of Jesus in the face of evil and opposition.
Today we start the last chapter of our journey through Ephesians—Ephs 6:1-9. This morning we will explore how Paul sees the big picture of what God is doing in our world worked out in the grind of daily relationships—to willingly submit our lives to others out of love for Christ.
Today we continue with our series in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians—Big energy in Little Spaces. The first three chapters of Ephesians is Big Energy—Paul’s description of God’s intention for the cosmos. The second half of Ephesians is about the church being shaped to live out the big picture in their context and in today’s passage Paul encourages the fledgling church in Ephesus to be imitators of God—to walk the way of love in the challenging streets of Ephesus.
Today we explore Paul’s encouragement to the church at Ephesus to be people whose lives are shaped and moulded by their new life in Christ. A people who have put aside their old lives, in exchange for something new. We will be looking at Ephesians 4:17-32.
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