‘Be with, be like’ is an exploration of fruitfulness, and what it is to experience and exhibit the Father’s love and Christlike Way by the Holy Spirit. In this third week we are exploring joy: how it arrives, how to cultivate it in our lives and how to live in the paradox of it.
‘Be with, be like’ is an exploration of fruitfulness, and what it is to experience and exhibit the Father’s love and Christlike Way by the Holy Spirit. In this second week we start exploring the fruit of the Spirit one by one, beginning with the first - and even only one - ‘love’.
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‘Be with, be like’ is an exploration of fruitfulness, and what it is to experience and exhibit the Father’s love and Christlike Way by the Holy Spirit. In this first week we kick off the series by introducing the importance of a life of fruitfulness and asking what’s inside the metaphor?
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This week guest speaker Jonathan Rankin finishes our Matter, matter series looking at what it is to be an earthy church - that is, a church of time and space.
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This week Dan interviews Michelle Kennedy, founder of Six Generations, and discuss God’s good creation of the earth, our God-given job of stewarding it, some reflections on how we are doing at that and how we need to in the future.
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This week Alisha took us through views of body image, concepts of beauty and how we can practice being better stewards of expressing ourselves.
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Join us for a special week celebrating baptisms and the stories of those who were baptised.
As human beings we have a need for fuel and an enjoyment of what we taste. God has gifted us the provision for these core needs. In a culture of over indulging and binging, how do we live with respect, gratitude and care for what we consume?
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Paul’s key point on not being dualistic comes in hot amongst a point about what it means to be sexual beings. How does it look to be a sexual being when we are living with an integrated body and spirit?
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The incarnation of Christ affirms the body, and our bodies have been made in the image of God, then how do we work with all the aspects of being human - a body with emotions to feel and a mind to think?
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What does it mean to be the temple of the Holy Spirit? If matter is good, then we have some rewiring to do. Creation has been made like a temple, with a trajectory and an order, and we are to partner with God to enjoy working in it and steward it as image bearers – but we are not Lord over it.
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As we being our series, we get our bearings for what looking at Christ-centred materiality will be all about. We explore the New Testament and Early church rejections of Platonic Dualism and discover how they aren’t just a problem for back then, but they live on today in many polar divisions in culture and the Church.
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We’re taking the four weeks after Easter to linger a little longer on the four stories from Luke 24. What do we do as the Easter event The final scene of Luke’s gospel has a few things for us to consider.
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We’re taking the four weeks after Easter to linger a little longer on the four stories from Luke 24. What do we do with moments of doubt with God or misunderstanding the work of Jesus? A scene in a room with the doubting disciples leads us to seek some answers together.
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We’re taking the four weeks after Easter to linger a little longer on the four stories from Luke 24. What do we do with moments of being disappointed in God or misunderstanding the work of Jesus? A road scene with two people having an open conversation has some answers for us to consider.
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We’re taking the four weeks after Easter to linger a little longer on the four stories from Luke 24. What do we do with moments of felling perplexed and disorientated in faith? A garden scene with some women and then Peter has some encouragement and answers for us.
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During our first All In gathering for 2021 we heard from Dan as he shared an analogy for where we are at as a community, a few things for the future and then we commission Ella Oh as a pastoral leader.
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Join us for this mini-series of reflections from the letter to the Philippians. Rob Wiseman shares on the whanaungatanga and manaakitanga Paul and the Philippian church share.
Join us for a Sunday Online reflection from the letter to the Philippians. This Sunday Dan shares on Paul’s tone of joy and his gratitude for the gospel.
Join us for this special Alert Level 2 Sunday for a podcast homily encouraging us as a community to slow down for His Spirit as we re-run Prayer Week.