An All Age service exploring God’s promises and our hopes and dreams for 2018.
Sermons by Chris Johnson (Page 30)
Have a Joyful Christmas!
The incarnation is central to our understanding of Christmas and to our understanding of Emmanuel – God with us. We celebrate Christ’s coming and His presence with us today.
The Christmas message is one of God’s love for us being demonstrated by the gift of His son, Jesus. Jesus shows us God’s love by dying in our place on the cross. How will we respond to this sacrificial love?
The Apostle Paul extends the implications of being the dwelling place of God corporately to the whole of life. He shows practical examples of how mutual submission works out in real life situations. This is what it looks like when we live in step with the Spirit.
Holiness, love and forgiveness are characteristics of the people the Spirit gathers. These are not arbitary religious practices but reflect the relationship within the Trinity and from God towards each of us. We are called to imitate God in expressing these atributes. In this passage Paul highlights the role of sung worship in helping us to speak the truth to each other and express our love for God. The environment of mutual submission which grows in regularly worshipping together is the next step in building a dwelling place for God.
Where did we go wrong and how can it be put right? Chris outlines the gospel from Paul’s letter to the Romans.
In the light of God’s amazing plan to build a dwelling place amongst His people, the Apostle Paul exhorts us to live a life worthy of our calling. Chris unpacks what that looks like in practice. How do we go about using the gifts we have been given by Christ to build a dwelling place for God? How do we avoid grieving the Holy Spirt?
Being strengthened by the Spirit so: Christ my dwell in our hearts through faith and we may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Sounds great to me! Let’s pray for that!
Thanks to the Apostle Paul, Chris reveals the mystery of God’s eternal purpose. This is what it is all about and what has all been about and what we are called to be part of now. So if you want to do the works God has prepared you for – listen in….