Be With, Be Like - pt 11: Afterword (Sunday epistle audio version)

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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 final part of the series, we share some closing words on the Biblical words we have looked at, and as it’s another Sunday in lockdown levels, we send it with love and in the form of an epistle-like letter read by our writer, Dan Sheed.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Dan Sheed
Music by Mark Perkins
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Be With, Be Like - pt 10: Self-control (Sunday epistle audio version)

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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 tenth part we are exploring the last of the fruit of the Spirit, self-control, and as it’s another Sunday in lockdown levels, we send it with love and in the form of an epistle-like letter read by our writer, Alisha Wiseman.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Alisha Wiseman
”Build My Life” performed by the Sotutu family
Music by Mark Perkins
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Be With, Be Like - pt 9: Gentleness (Sunday epistle audio version)

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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 penultimate week we are exploring gentleness, and as it’s another Sunday in lockdown levels, we send it with love and in the form of an epistle-like letter read by our writer, Gabrielle Sheed.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Gabrielle Sheed
”Gentle and humble at heart” written by Anthony Macleod and Donald Goodhall, performed by Anthony Macleod
Music by Mark Perkins
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Be With, Be Like - pt 8: Faithfulness (Sunday epistle audio version)

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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 eighth week we are exploring faithfulness, and as it’s another Sunday in lockdown levels, we send it with love and in the form of an epistle-like letter read by our writer, Vivek Gabriel.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Vivek Gabriel
”We lack nothing” written by Jiwan Rai and Ants Jeffares, performed by Ants Jeffares
Music by Mark Perkins
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Special Podcast: Who cares? Cont.

In this special podcast episode, Alisha (co-leader and pastoral care leader at CV) caught up with our pastoral team of Dan, Gab, Ella and Rob and talked about how care looks from the pastoral perspective. We pray there's something helpful and insightful you can glean from the conversation.

Be With, Be Like - pt 7: Goodness (Sunday epistle audio version)

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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 seventh week we are exploring goodness, and as it’s another Sunday in lockdown Level 4, we send it with love and in the form of an epistle-like letter read by our writer, Strahan Coleman.

Strahan was meant to be our guest speaker this Sunday, and has kindly sent his message from afar. For more of Strahan’s work see commonerscommunion.com

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Strahan Coleman
”Goodness of God” performed by Alicia Scott
Music by Mark Perkins
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Special Podcast: Who cares?

In this special podcast episode, Alisha (co-leader and pastoral care leader at CV) caught up with our very own Matt Judd (counsellor) and Amanda Pilbrow (spiritual director in training) to discuss care through their various lenses. We pray there's something helpful and insightful you can glean from the conversation.

Be With, Be Like - pt 6: Kindness (Sunday epistle audio version)

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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 sixth week we are exploring kindness, and as it’s another Sunday in lockdown Level 4, we send it with love and in the form of an epistle-like letter read by our writer, Rob Wiseman.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Rob Wiseman
”Throne of grace” performed by Donald Goodhall
Music by Mark Perkins
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Be With, Be Like - pt 5: Patience (Sunday epistle audio version)

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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 fifth week we are exploring patience, and as it’s another Sunday in lockdown Level 4, we send it with love and in the form of an epistle-like letter read by our writer, Natalie Wendzich.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Natalie Wendzich
”Not in a hurry” performed by Susana Sotutu and Eroni Sotutu
Music by Mark Perkins
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Sunday Epistle: Guest author - Aaron Hardy (Sunday epistle audio version)

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Before our current Covid outbreak, Aaron Hardy (Te Rautini) was scheduled to visit us as a guest speaker this Sunday. He has kindly sent this special message from afar as a guest writer of our Sunday Epistle. Our Be with, be like” series will continue next week.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Aaron Hardy
Music by Jiwan Rai
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Be With, Be Like - pt 4: Peace (Sunday epistle audio version)

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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 fourth week we are exploring peace, and as it’s our first Sunday in lockdown Level 4, we send it with love and in the form of an epistle-like letter read by Alisha, Dan, Ella, Gabrielle, Rob and Vivek.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Alisha, Dan, Ella, Gabrielle, Rob and Vivek
”Peace / Afio Mai” performed by Donald Goodhall, written and owned by Te Rautini / Link
Music by Jiwan Rai
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

Be With, Be Like - pt 3: Joy

‘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.

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Be With, Be Like - pt 2: Love

‘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 - pt 1: Introduction to fruitfulness

‘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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Matter, matters - pt 8: An Earthy Church

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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Matter, matters - pt 7: Our Beautiful Earth

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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Matter, matters - pt 6: Expressive Beings

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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Baptism Stories

Join us for a special week celebrating baptisms and the stories of those who were baptised.

Matter, matters - pt 5: Consuming Beings

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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Matter, matters - pt 4: Sexual Beings

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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