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Do you believe God listens to those that runaway from Him? Check this talk to find out!
We all want to know where God want's us to go... well He makes it obvious to Jonah but Jonah didn't like what he heard...
Check into this talk to see how you can disagree and solve arguments with your parents!
There is no hiding from the fact that at the moment cancel culture is something that is prevalent in our culture right now. Don't agree with what some one said? Cancelled. Past comments brought up? Cancelled. Someone did something you disagree with? Cancelled. Someone made a mistake? Cancelled. It is becoming more apparent that we struggle to be with people that have different morals and ethics than us. There is becoming less and less space for forgiveness and more and more opportunity for division and opportunities to create pockets of people that agree with everything we agree with. So what does God think of cancel culture?
The last year has been a wrestle... we have all wrestled with loneliness, isolation, mental health and family... but how do you win these wrestles? Tune in to this talk to see how!
So you're hanging out with Jesus? What do you do... sit with him or hangout in the kitchen?
Ever felt not a priority? Ever felt insignificant? Ever felt unimportant? Tune into this talk to see how Jesus raises all three...
With the last in the series, Nicole talks to us how Jesus brings Technicolour to all aspects of our life!
We hope for good weather. We hope that restrictions end soon. We hope the next series of Stranger Things will be out... but what does real hope look like?
Death is something that we will all experience and feel over our life time... But with Jesus there can be a technicolour outcome!
Ever felt like you've missed the mark? That you've failed? Check in on this talk to see how Jesus doesn't...
Simon finishes off our Heart Check series and encourages listeners to expect and embrace persecution...
The world is clearly not at peace. But Jesus has made peace for us and now we are called to be peacemakers in this world.
We have all been shown mercy by Jesus... so who do you need to show mercy to and how might that look like?
Justice is a big word. And it is so needed right now. Check in with this talk to see God's heart for it.
You have pride issues just like everyone else and thats a problem. The problem with pride is it causes us to focus on i which takes our focus off God. So how do you fix that? Listen in to find out!
These wise men were seen almost like magicians – people whose insight was highly respected. They travelled far on a potentially difficult journey to meet this baby they knew was the Messiah. They followed God’s signs all the way. They we filled with great joy and compelled to worship the baby Jesus. They recognised his majesty even as respected people who were often in contact with royalty. He was worth the journey. They couldn’t help but worship him and give him great gifts.
We all work for someone... you either work for Jesus or you dont. So. Who do you work for?
Joseph planned a quiet and respectful divorce for Mary, not believing that her baby was from God (who would to be fair!). He needed to be convinced. So, God showed up in his dream and explained the whole situation. Without hesitation he obeys what God has asked him to do. Like Mary, an act of radical faith and obedience is what we see of Joseph’s response to God’s instruction. Trusting that God is in control and risking the shame and loss of reputation it could bring to him and his family.
Jesus needs to be discovered. How far will you go, how much will you give up in order to possess the immense and immeasurable treasure of Jesus?
It must have been terrifying for a young woman of Mary’s age to be told, not only that she would have a baby, but that she was to be mother of the Messiah. Facing huge physical trial, potential shame and outcast from society, and the burden of bearing the Son of God, Mary steps up and obeys the instructions of the angel. She does not refuse what God has asked her to do.
Mary was obedient to God's voice... How far would you go in obedience and trust in God?
There is pain in our lives. Physical. Emotional. Spiritual. There is suffering around us. In our families. In our friendship groups. In our country. In our world. We live in a culture that has medicines for pain. We have injections and vaccines for diseases. We have counsellors to help us understand why our life is going the way it is. All of these are good. But none are God. None can say "The Paracetamol who Heals" "The Tetnus Jab who Heals" "The Counsellor who Heals". Only God has the confidence to say "I AM The LORD Who Heals you". We often go to God as the last option for pain and healing, but when we look at the life of Jesus, there are a lot of stories of Him being the God who heals.
Google Maps. Apple Maps. Fortune Telling. Career Advice. We all want to be led in the right direction. We all want the quickest way to get somewhere. In the OT a shepherd was a hard job. Often on your own, in the middle of nowhere. Day and night looking after the flock they have been put in charge of. It was the shepherds job to lead the flock into green pasture. It was the shepherds job to protect the flock from predators. It was the shepherds job to rescue the flock that got away. We all want freedom and independence, but with that comes the wilderness. Jesus promises to be the shepherd, the one who guides you to a better way of living.
When we think about God being our provider, we often think of providing for our daily needs. And while that is true, we learn in the story of Abraham and Issac, that Jehovah Jireh provides for more - he provides for our steps of faith. If you follow God, there will be times that you need to step out in faith and step out into scary situations just like Abraham did. But it's often when we take the unknown scary step that God then provides for us. It is when we take the step of faith that God provides us with the words to tell our friends about our faith, it is when we take the step of faith that God provides us with the words to answer a question our friend has, it's when we take the step of faith that God provides the strength we need to follow the prompting we have from God to do something.
The word Shalom means peace or to bring something back to wholeness because it is broken. The world is anything but peace or whole at the moment. Can you think of a time in the last 1, 2, 3, 4, 5+ years that something crazy hasn't been going on in this world?. We all can be sitting in inflatable rings in the wildest sea, being thrown around by all the different waves coming at us from different angles. It is only when we calm ourselves down and recognise God is peace, that He is with us, we can change our inflatable ring for a surf board and ride the waves of life.
Elohim is the very first name we see God referred to by in the Bible and can be found over 2500 times in the OT. Elohim means supreme one or mighty one. When we think of Elohim we can think of The One who began it all, creating the heavens and the earth, separating light and darkness, water from dry land and night from day. In the OT this name, Elohim, Is used also to refer to human rulers, judges and even angels. Elohim refers to a high power. And according to the Bible we all believe in a higher power which means we all have the ability to switch our "Elohim" to something lesser than the greatest Elohim, or maybe we even make ourselves Elohim.