What would you be willing to give up for someone that you love? Listen to this Good Friday message on the unfathomable love of God from Pastor James Wong.

The gap between our expectations and reality can often be difficult to come to terms with. As Jesus enters Jerusalem in 33AD, this proves to be true for the Jewish people. Is Jesus the one who will fulfil their expectations?

Our world constantly say 'move up'! Promotions, progress and upward mobility. Yet, if we're to be formed into the likeness of Jesus, we need to adopt His posture of humble service!

How do we fight against the consumerism, materialism and individualism of our age and be formed more and more into the image of Jesus? By practicing the discipline of generosity.

Last year the U.S. Surgeon General along with the World Health Organisation released a report titled 'Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation.' Despite being more digitally 'connected' than ever, we are living in a world that has a loneliness problem. The good news is that Jesus invites us into, and offers us, a better way: a vision for community that can satisfy our longings for relationship and is what we were truly created for.

Today, non-stop work has become a virtue. Busy is compulsory. Pausing is a missed opportunity. Now more than ever, we need to take up the practice of Sabbath and hear the invitation of Jesus to come to him and receive rest for our souls.

In a world of constant noise and information, we need to cultivate the places and times for silence and solitude.

Lead Pastor Matt Sparks teaches on Fasting, the next or practice in our FORMED series.

Voices shape us, be that the parental voice, educational voice, or social voice. The most important shaping voice in the life of a Christian is God. That's why having a pattern of regular, intentional, spiritual reading of scripture is essential for Christlikeness. There is no healthy, sustaining faith that does not put down deep roots into the Word of God.