Day 2: THE BLESSING OF HIS NAME
The name of Jesus is known in all of heaven. The forces of darkness tremble at the name of Jesus and Jesus have given us the privilege of his name for life and mission
Day 1 : LAY YOUR BURDEN DOWN
The start of a new year often brings a flurry of activity, leaving us feeling like Martha, busy and distracted. Yet, Jesus invites us to embrace the Mary choice: to simply sit at His feet. This sacred space is where all the accumulated burdens of the past year – the anxieties, the regrets, the heavy “doing” – can be safely laid down. At Jesus’ feet, we stop performing and start engaging with the One who offers true rest.
10 Days of Prayer and Fasting
As we journey into a New Year we are conscious that all of our hopes and dreams, visions and desires, as wonderful as they might be, will face opposition from our own internal struggles, the world around us and also from forces of darkness that want to oppose anything that promotes God’s will for humanity and anything good.
Advent Week 3
Advent Reflections WEEK 3 16.12.24 – The First Noel The first Noel the angels did sayWas to certain poor shepherds in fields where they layIn fields where they lay, keeping their sheep,On a cold winter’s night that was so deep: The traditional Christmas story has very definite symbols attached to it and one of those […]
Advent Week 2
Advent Reflections WEEK 2 09.12.24 JOSEPH’S DILEMMA – Matthew 1:18-19 – This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit. Because Joseph, her husband, was faithful to the […]
Advent Week 1
Advent Reflections WEEK 1 01.12.24 Genesis 1:26-27 Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” So […]
CHURCH BUILT BY JESUS
At the heart of this series is the desire to discover or rediscover the reason and purpose of the church. It is an opportunity to remind ourselves of what the church was created for and why for over two thousand years the church has faced incredible challenges and still continues to survive, grow and metamorphose […]
The God of Creation
0:00 / 0:00 The normative teaching in our culture on the origin of the universe and life does not give any room for the divine. In popular culture and the media the same is the case. The theory of evolution is the norm for narrating the origin of things. The bible however presents a different […]
The Shepherd and Provider
0:00 / 0:00 What does it mean for our day to day lives that God is the shepherd of his people? This is an amazing and liberating truth for God’s people. What is the role of the shepherd independently of the sheep? and what is the responsibility of the sheep to the shepherd? How can […]
The Sovereign King
Who is the ultimate power in the universe today? Under whose authority should nations pledge their allegiance and under whose laws should nation and individual laws be built. The writer of psalms believes that this should be God and he proceeds in these psalms to tell us why God is sovereign over the affairs of […]