A father has two sons..... who couldn't be more different in their responses. Yes, it's a story ages old, but also a story about the ways, the paths, the choices of responding. The parable begins with these words.... "What do you think"? So what DO you think? Join us as we explore life and faith together.
God chooses to show grace to all people. Are we open to receive it?
As we receive God's mercy and forgiveness, how do we show mercy and forgiveness to others?
In ways this passage is about addressing the difficult issues of conflict and relational breakdown within the church. In other ways this passage is an invitation into the loosing, liberating, life giving ways of Christ. This may be a difficult passage to understand, but certainly it is a difficult passage to embrace as part of the Christian life.
Finding our true selves in Christ. Tim is joined by a rooster as we explore what it means to deny 'ourselves' and take up our crosses.
Over two thousand years ago, near Caesarea Philippi, Jesus asks Simon Peter 'who do you say that I am?". Today we are asked the same question, 'who do YOU say Jesus is?'
We come to the remarkable reading of the Canaanite woman who lunges into the life of Jesus, amongst the crowd and the disciples, and pulls him from the inconvenient interruption, back into the reality of the Christ and the way of God. A remarkable reading for us at this time also, as our minds, hopefully, are turned towards the middle east. Join us as we explore life and faith together.
Peter's rescue reminds us that our hope rests in the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.
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