As we read this week from Matthew, a passage that is not easy to read for us today, but addresses a very contemporary challenge - what we can find is the promise that you will be given an identity by Jesus - you are a child of God.

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As we read from Matthew this week, we are given a description of Gods kingdom; healing for the sick, freedom for prisoners, good new for the poor.

What does this look like practically for us? We hear from Silvan Danuser as he talks about his experience working for Pathways - a social enterprise organisation that believes people can make positive life changes when they are given the tools they need. ​

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As we begin to read from Matthew - we are faced with three different stories dealing with questionable life choices, social exclusion and death.

These continue to be things that we struggle with today. The human experience is one where life doesn't go as you planned. Our world can be full of disappointment.

One thing here that we do know & the only promise we are given is that we won't be left alone. In the middle of our struggles God is there.

The challenge for this week is not to hide from the presences of Jesus but to

turn around and see Jesus offering his hand to follow him.

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Today is Trinity Sunday, a day when we remember that God exists in community.

It is not found alone, it is found with others in a culture of truth, faithfulness and welcoming.

Jesus said I am the way the truth and the life.

This is what it means to be human. If we want that deep core satisfaction it is in imitating Jesus, accepting the transformative spirit of Jesus within us. This is what we are called to do.

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Here at Pentecost we read from John as Jesus promises Living Water and from Acts 2 as God delivers.

And we reflect, that Christianity is not primarily about escaping the wilderness - it is about discovering that God brings living water to it.

Pentecost isn't just the birth of the church its the relocation of the presence of God.

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We read from John the Prayer of Jesus.

Here we are presented with the two sides of church - a welcoming community and a community with a vocation, and we reflect on what this means for our church.

We are an outward facing institution that expresses the love of Jesus to the world. We do have a task - but it matters how we do it.

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This Sunday we read from John, as Jesus promises the Holy Spirit.

The invitation here is a new community. We don't have to be someone other than who we are - we just have to open ourselves up the presence of Jesus in our lives.

God see you and loves you, you are not alone.

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This week we reflect on what it means to be a community that points to Jesus.

We are not being saved individually we are being built together.

The challenge here is how do we go from where we are now as a culture to where Jesus calls his people to form.

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We read this week from Acts Chapter 2 - as the believers form a community.

We have an opportunity as followers of Jesus to be a community.

But it isn't always easy - there is a call here for something radical and different. That our lives might be transformed by the love and freedom that Jesus offers.

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This week we welcome Bruce Fraser to preach for us.

We delve into the history and growth of the church, and he talks to us about relationships — what happens when relationship breaks, and what it takes to restore it.

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