David Armstrong shares a vision of how we as the church can witness to the peace and radical way of Jesus in the world.
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The Very Good Gospel
Stephanie Wilson reflects on what the Gospel of shalom might say when life doesn’t go well, when we have to deal with the difficult realities of illness and death — especially in the midst of a pandemic — and how we are invited to surrender the need for certainty and step into deep trust and faith in the goodness of God who is with us through all of it.
David Armstrong considers how the Gospel of shalom calls us to examine our relationship with the earth and our environment and see creation care as a core value in the Kingdom God.
Stephanie Wilson looks at how the Gospel of shalom informs and shapes how we think about issues of gender.
David Armstrong looks at how the Gospel of shalom informs and shapes how we think about issues of race, ethnicity, nationality and empire and how the way of Jesus calls us to a different way: the Kingdom of Peace.
Stephanie Wilson considers what the Gospel of shalom means for our families and relationships to those closest to us. However, perhaps more importantly the Gospel of Good News also wants to reshape and broaden our view of what family actually is and call us to create places of belonging and relationships across all societal boundaries — welcoming one and all into the family of God. Stephanie shares what this might mean for our community in Redeemer and the parish we live in, in Donegall Street and beyond.
Stephanie Wilson looks at what the Gospel of shalom and wholeness might mean for living at peace with who we are and who God made us to be. Drawing from the story of Hagar we find the root of our shalom comes from a compassionate and kind God who sees us.
David Armstrong — drawing from the story of Jesus encounter with the Samaritan Woman in the Gospel of John (Chapter 4) — explores the deep human longing in all of us for home and how that leads us to relationship and knowing God - the source of all life.
Stephanie Wilson —drawing on the image of shalom and goodness from our origins story in the book of Genesis — shows how this is the blueprint of what the Kingdom of God looks like and calls us to in our world today.
David Armstrong begins the series with a beautiful vision of the gospel as restoration and wholeness for a broken and fragmented world and contrasts this with the small, limited 'gospel' that is so often preached from soap boxes and plastered on the walls of our city.