In Part 5 David Armstrong, John Herron & Stephanie Wilson finish the prayer practice series with a Q&A and discussion that includes their experiences of prayer, the purpose of prayer and how we might understand unanswered prayer.
In Prayer part 4 David Armstrong explores the fourth stage of prayer: being with God or what the ancient Christians called “union” with God. To contemplate is to look, to gaze upon the beauty of God, receiving his love pouring out toward you in Christ and by the Spirit, and then giving your love back in return.
In Prayer part 3 John Herron helps us understand that prayer is not just when we talk but when we listen to hear his voice. As Jesus said in John 10v27, “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me.” This is a Spirit-generated desire in the heart of a disciple of Jesus.
In Prayer part 2 Stephanie Wilson helps us begin to learn how to talk with God using our own words to God — to share what’s on our mind, our heart. Our pain, our joy, our hopes and fears. We can’t help but desire to interact with God in a more authentic, personalised way.
In Prayer part 1 David Armstrong explores the first stage of prayer: talking to God. One of the single most important tasks of discipleship to Jesus is starting, habituating, and fine-tuning a daily prayer rhythm. So we start our four-week journey simply, by praying pre-made prayers, or what some call a liturgy, to God.
David Armstrong finishes our Advent series looking at this season as a divine invitation and divine interruption.
Scott Witherick continues our Advent series with a reflection on the nativity story in Matthew 2:1-12 and the journey of the Magi from the East.
Glen Mitchell begins our Advent series
In Sabbath Part 4 we look at how sabbath isn’t just a day to sleep in, relax, and do whatever brings you joy (it is, but it’s more): it’s a day to worship. As we reorient our entire life back to its centre in God we elevate the Sabbath from a restful, joyful day off to a holy day of worship and delight in God himself.
In Sabbath part 3 John Herron looks at the third movement of Sabbath– delight. Sorrow is inevitable in this life, but joy is not. In the Way of Jesus, joy is a gift, but it’s one that must be chosen and cultivated, day after day, as an act of apprenticeship to our joyful God.
In Sabbath part 2 Stephanie Wilson explores the second movement of Sabbath–to rest. The idea of rest sounds wonderful, but in reality, rest is a radical, countercultural act of resistance to the powers and principalities of a world at war with God and his kingdom of peace.
David Armstrong begins our series Practicing the Way with our first practice, Sabbath — a day of rest by which we cultivate a spirit of restfulness in all of our life. In part 1 we examine how sabbath is, at its most basic, a call to stop, to cease, to be done.
A morning with our friend Jonny Clark exploring the relationship between faith and peacemaking and his own journey into the work of mediation, public theology and peace-building.
Our friend and guest speaker Dr. Richard Laugharne explores the relationship between faith, spirituality and our mental health.
Stephanie Wilson teaches on what it means to be church saturated by grace.
David Armstrong teaches on what it means to be a church community shaped and oriented firstly by the values of the Kingdom of God.
Stephanie Wilson teaches on what it means to be church as family.
As followers of Jesus we invited to locate ourselves in a bigger story, the story of God. This is a story with ancient roots that is still unfolding, and we are invited to embody and live out.
As we begin another church season David Armstrong begins a series that explores some of the values that give shape to our community.
Jason Miller speaks from the Gospel of Matthew and the strange blessings of Jesus — often called the Beatitudes — that name our experiences of suffering and open up the possibility for hope hidden in the paradoxes.