Love must be sincere.
Love is sacrificial and giving of oneself.
The Father demonstrated His love first. We merely love by response to His love.
The more we respond, the more He loves us.
We become the demonstration of Our Father’s love, when we start loving.
Love covers sin without without endorsing it, nor embracing the consequences of it.
God is Good, there is no darkness in Him.
He has sown good seed into the world.
His enemy sows bad seed in the same place.
Now is not the time for separation, but for unity.
We are not called to judge, but to be and love.
The church is not perfect but it is His family.
God’s house is a safe haven for the whosoever.
There were many symbols reflected upon this weekend.
Craig starts with a brief explanation of the egg of pass-over meal.
In order to take hold of the new, we need to let go of the old.
The principal of leaving and cleaving.
He then moves on to the way our brokenness and pain cloud our vision.
When everybody else can see what’s in front of us.
He looks at the pain of the disciples which informs their doubt and fear.
Then how a revelation of the risen Lord changes our view and belief.
This Palm Sunday we’re focused on crowd mentality.
How we can get swept up in following popular opinion.
We looked at the context of crowning kings and our expectation of these events.
Jesus engaged and planned His entry by being intentional towards prophecy and scripture.
He embraced death and teaches us to hear His voice and stand out of the crowd.
We look at the Biblical model of telling our story.
Why we need to share it and what a difference it makes.
Rob Norman shares the ABCD of leading somebody to Jesus and finally of the disruptive journey of doing life together.
Less Art More Heart
Don’t be a hypocrite.
Guard your heart.
Don’t do meaningless repetition.
Find your safe Space.
Remember that He knows.
Know the name and believe.
When we pray we identify with our humanity.
We accept our limitations and recognize His deity.
We can pray in different ways but conversations require both talking and listening.
We look at how Jesus prayed in the garden.
How the God-man identified with his human limitations and surrendered to the Father’s will.
We face our fear and exchange it for confidence in the Lord.
Your destiny is a measurable point of your journey.
The Lord sets in place the principle of first.
Prototypes are the foundations of what will be built.
The apostolic lays foundations and sets order in place.
God wants to bring order into your chaos.
What will have to be set in order.
When the Chief apostle, the cornerstone, brings order he brings:
healing, deliverance and life.
Forgiveness is not just saying I forgive you.
It’s more than letting go.
It’s knowing the offence or debt and addressing it.
Then it requires a decision followed by a communication of intent,
that all rights to you legal claim is forgone and relinquished.
It is both an event and a process.
We are all faced with sickness, challenges or even death on a regular basis.
After a testimony of miraculous healing, we have a teaching based on the tension of the already/not yet of healing.
Based on Gen 2, we follow the rationale of creation of the place created for life.
How our temporary bodies will give way to death and make room for a permanent dwelling for our Spirit.
How neither life nor death can separate from His love in Christ Jesus.
The Lord has gone to prepare this place for us and Our hope is in the resurrection of the body.