This week Beth continued our series in the book of Ecclesiastes by looking at chapter 5, where 'the Teacher' challenges our attitude and expectations on money and wealth.
The teacher declares that it is neither good or bad to be wealthy or poor, in both circumstances money can become an obsession and give false hope of security and happiness. Instead we are told to accept our 'lot' in life and do our best to enjoy the blessings that God has given us today.

Story telling can be a powerful tool. It can help non-Christians understand how Christ is relevant to their life. It can help other Christians be spurred on in their faith and get to know God in new ways.

We all have a story. As Christians we all have stories of God's goodness, a moment or a time where God has called, challenged or blessed us. So what do we do with these stories? How can we use them? 

During this workshop, Bee led us to think about why we share testimony and showed us how we can share ours both conversationally and in a public forum. 

This week Llewelyn launched our next Wisdom series, 'Wise Deconstruction'.

Throughout this series we'll be diving deep into the book of Ecclesiastes. 
 
Llewelyn has left us with the following questions to reflect;

This week Beth concluded our Growing Wisdom series by leading us through a time of reflection.

Spend time this week reflecting on where God has been speaking to you over this series.

This week Llewelyn continued our 'Growing Wisdom' series, exploring what he calls Moral Imagination.

Moral imagination is the ability to imagine what a right or wrong response is to any given situation. A moral imagination immersed in the search for God’s will and wisdom enters God’s story to imagine what a situation would be like if heaven and earth were united in that place.
 
Llewelyn looked at why the Bible uses riddles, poetry, stories and parables and how these things appeal to us on a deeper level and evoke a response. He invited us to look at the rules that we follow in our lives and the wisdom that underpins them.
 
Llewelyn leaves us with the following questions to reflect on this week:

This week Beth continued our 'Growing Wisdom' series, exploring character formation. 
She left us with the following questions to reflect;

This week Llewelyn brought us a message exploring the second aspect of the Wisdom Cycle: Growing Down. Likening growing down in wisdom to a tree being planted in a garden.
Llewelyn has left us the following questions to reflect on this week:

This week Beth continued our 'Growing Wisdom' series, exploring Wisdom as being both Spirit drawn and Spirit led.

As we walked through the story of Moses and the burning bush in Exodus 3, we reflected on the importance of Moses noticing the work of God and being drawn into His presence, and then his decision to pivot from being drawn to being led through his response of fear and humility as he realised the one who had drawn him.

Beth leaves us with the following questions to reflect upon this week:

This week as we continued our Growing Wisdom series, Llewelyn explored the question, 'What is wisdom and how do I get it?'
He introduced a new facet of wisdom, "know-how", and how in biblical thought, wisdom is related to skill and to the question of 'how?'.
Wisdom at its broadest and most profound sense is about how to be human. Reading from Genesis 1-3, we looked at how to be human is to be the image of God and that God is the source of all wisdom. 

Llewelyn has left us with the following questions to reflect on this week:

This week Beth launched our new sermon series ‘Growing Wisdom’.
Reading from the parable of the wise man and the foolish man in Matthew 7, we leaned into the analogy of a tree with strong roots. Wisdom is like having deep spiritual roots. It allows us to internalise the good things of God and be formed and grown by it, this is how we produce spiritual fruit.
In this upcoming series we will be exploring the ‘what, why and how’ of biblical wisdom, and seeking to develop the skill of internalising the things of God so that we might be formed and transformed as we grow in wisdom.