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God Wins in You

What hope do we have that we as believers can change-- That the sinful desires we have will not control us-- Examining our lives in light of Paul's list of virtues, can cause us to wonder if we can in fact gain victory over our sinful fleshly desires. Today Paul is helping us see that God is not fighting a losing battle within us. There are important truths that give us hope in the middle of the war. We belong to Christ. Our flesh has been crucified and we have the Spirit living in us. But we...

The Lord's Prayer: Desiring God

Our Mission

A Heart for the Lost

Peace with God

Self Control

As believers, we see in Scripture that self-control is required for every season of life. But we continue to fight against the fleshly desires that want to control us...Join us as we look at three important questions for us all if we are going to grow in self-control.

Gentle and Strong

How many of us think that being gentle is being weak-- As we look at the gentleness of Jesus, it helps us see how strong and powerful this fruit of the Spirit is in the lives of those who embrace the gentleness of Jesus in their lives. As we consider the gentleness of Jesus, it helps us to confess our sin, confront sin and to persevere with one another. Join us as we consider this mighty fruit of the Spirit.

A heart for the lost

Jesus, Our All-Sufficient Saviour

Jesus our Triumphant saviour

What a Faithful God Have I

We can have confidence that we can grow in the fruit of the Spirit, not because of us, but because God is a faithful God. He gave us Jesus to die for us, His Spirit to sanctify us, now we can live faithfully for him. But what does a faithful follower of Jesus look like-- Join us as we consider 4 marks of a faithful believer.

Jesus, The true Son of God - Our qualified Saviour

God is Good

We like to say -God is good- when things have turned out well for us...but what if they dont-- Is God still good-- If we see how his very nature is goodness, then we see how all of his other attributes flow out of that goodness. And because he sent Jesus to rescue us, by faith in Him, we are filled with his goodness and can respond to the evil of this world by seeking the good of others. Displaying the fruit of goodness requires that God's goodness be the anchor of our souls...

Kindness Changes Everything

How can we grow in the fruit of kindness-- Being kind is more than just being a nice person. Being kind flows out of the kindness we have received in Jesus. So, if we are going to grow in displaying the fruit of kindness, we need to identify how God has been kind to us, how we are not being kind and how we can show kindness to others even when it is hard.

Psalm 32

The ground that produces abundant fruit

Why Should I Pursue Wisdom

Wisdom in Proverbs 2

The Lord's Prayer: Honouring the Lord

The Purpose of the Incarnation

Prayer

A Divine Son

Today we enter a new year. Over Christmas we have remembered the angel Gabriel announcing Mary's coming pregnancy and birth. The fact that God had chosen to pour out his favour on her was too wonderful for her. She gave birth to a fully human son whom she treasured all the way through his life until his shocking death by crucifixion. Yet darkness is turned to light for her and for you, believer in Jesus, when the crucified Christ rises from the dead in a display of power this world has never ...

A Human Son

So in this surprise moment where Gabriel appears to Mary, we discover that we struggle to grasp and surrender ourselves to the vast kindness of God in the gospel. God proved his intentions to Mary, a virgin, were good in granting her that miraculous pregnancy. The son born was a thrilling blessing and advantage to Mary and you you and I by extension. The son born was fully human as well as fully divine. It is important that the son is fully human because he is the true Christian's representat...

The King of Glory

Crowds enter Jerusalem with rejoicing as the ark of God comes through the gates. While the gates open by the authority of the glorious Creator King, what gives those crowds the right to enter with the King of Glory-- The right of access must depend on God himself in his great salvation.

What's wrong with the world?

Sanctification in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ

Longing for the Morning

Regardless of how dark your life has grown, you can hope in the Lord. Your love has already failed, not only your love for the Lord, but your love for other people as well. And God Himself, oh what a glorious fact, will come to you personally, in your distress, and He will buy you out of your sins and distress, right down to the very last sinful thought. Forever.

Enduring by Grace

The Big Idea

If you are a true believer in Christ, you can know for certain that God is working every single aspect of your life and this universe for your good and his glory. How can I know this is true-- Because God has already completed many of the actions required to make that happen. He has known you affectionately forever. He has chosen you to be his own. He has chosen to make you like his glorious Son. He has chosen to include you in a glorious new, eternal family, being like his Son, with the Son ...

Gospel Powered Patience

How do we respond to life when things don't go the way we want them to go-- What is testing your patience-- We can cultivate patience when we look at the example of Jesus's patience, when we understand that God is in control of all that happens in our lives and that forbearing with others is a way to make the gospel look beautiful. Join us as we consider the next fruit of the Spirit...patience-

Blessings of Justification

Two paths of life

Endurance by Grace

The mandate of the Church: The proclamation of Jesus

Fighting for Peace

We live in a world where things are not as they ought to be. Sin causes us to be at war with God, with others and with ourselves. True peace grows in dependance on God. Join us today as we consider what peace is and why we need it, where we can find it and how we should guard it. Because we have a peace that is eternal and out of this world that causes us to move toward other people to resolve conflict, to have a calmness of the soul when life gets hard.

Implications of Justification

Church Discipline

The Bible teaches that church discipline has three purposes. The first is to restore and reconcile believers who are falling into sin. The second is to keep sin from spreading to others in the church. The third is protect the purity of the church and the honour of Christ. All worthy motivations. The Bible also gives us examples of sins that were disciplined in the New Testament. These sins have three commonalities- they are publicly known, they continue over a period of time, and they are des...

Diving Deep for Joy

Displaying the Fruit of Love

We can sometimes have our own definition of what love is...But God not only commands us to love others like Jesus loves us, but He pours his love into our hearts to make that possible. But in order to love others biblically, we need to define love the way God does and understand what that looks like. Because the more we see how much God loves us, the more we can display the fruit of real love...

Do You Want to be Fruitful?

Introducing the fruit of the Spirit. God is busy transforming this world back into a fruitful garden that displays His glory. And the church is to be a picture of lush orchard of grace in the midst of this present evil age, where the fruit of the Spirit touch the lives of others and point them to Christ. As we come to study the fruit of the Spirit, we see that God has always planned for us to be fruitful. That being fruitful only comes from the Holy Spirit and not our own efforts, and that th...

How Justification Works

Our Need for Justification

Contentment and Generosity

How Can I Know that I am a True Christian?

The Unforgiving Servant

How can we as Christians freely offer forgiveness when we are sinned against in terrible ways-- How can we forgive when we are sinned against repeatedly-- Is this really possible--

Reconciliation - A Christian's Unique Privilege

Am I Walking in the Flesh?

God wants us to walk in His Spirit, but some of us are daily walking in the flesh. Paul says that the person who is constantly living a sinful, fleshly life will be evident. But we need an accurate view of ourselves. God shows us how much he hates sin, through the warning that those who live in constant sin, will not be part of His kingdom. He also shows us his hatred for sin through the death of His only son. Will you turn from a life in the flesh and turn to Christ, the only one that can se...

Your Dread in Jesus' Cup

If you had walked with Jesus on earth throughout his earthly ministry, if you had gone with him into Gethsemane, if you had been selected to come closer to him while he prays in agony, if you had heard the unspeakable tones with which he pleaded with his father in bloody agony, would you have been able to stay awake as he asked you to-- Would it have changed your life-- If even Jesus' disciples fell asleep, how much more do you and I need the empowering grace of God to honour him with our lives.

Led and Leadable

God commands us to walk in the Spirit. And it is our responsibility to follow Him where ever He leads us. Too often we have confusing ideas of what it means to be led by the Spirit. Paul shows us that in the context of Galatians, God is leading us in our daily desires which means he is leading us into holiness. It also means he is not leading us into the flesh. But what hinders God's leading in our lives-- Join us as we consider what Paul says to the churches in Galatia.

Time to Take a Walk

Are you frustrated or discouraged with your own fight against sin-- Do you wonder sometimes, 'why do I keep doing this wicked stuff--'...Paul is helping us understand what it means to be controlled by the Spirit. Because if we are walking in the Spirit, we are walking in the same way Jesus walked. Paul is showing us that the Spirit of God is sufficient for our sanctification...but we do not always believe it. If we yield to the Spirit, then we are guaranteed that we will overcome our sinful, ...