ARISE Church

In the Bible stones speak to us of memories. When God moved in the Old Testament they would construct a monument.

Our future shaped by what we choose to recall from our past. Build monuments for the good things God has done and leave behind your regrets.

It is our tendency to try to define God. We want to figure Him out, to predict Him, to say we know Him.

Yet God has always got a new chapter for us, something that we have not experienced before.
 We must keep our eyes open to an unfamiliar God.

God doesn’t just want to free you from your past, He wants you to step into a new future.

We must throw off old ways of thinking in order to walk into the plan God has for us.

God doesn’t need the right one; He only needs the willing one. Don't say that you are too young, too old, too poor, or too new—if God says you are the one, you are the one!

Wherever we are willing to go, that is where God goes with us. Take a step! Listen as Ps John Cameron continues The New Normal series.

Everyone has a wilderness but it should not become your home. Decide to leave behind where you have been and step into what God has for you. Follow God’s call and break free from what you’ve known. Listen as Pastor John Cameron continues ‘The New Normal’ and talks about crossing your own Jordan River.

Because of Jesus, the mistakes of our past no longer hold us back. God wants us walking into our destiny with our eyes fixed on Him. Through His forgiveness he has defeated the power of sin and death, so we can take hold of all He has for us.

There are key moments in life that require us to break from old ways of thinking and step into a new normal—leaving the relative comfort of a well-trodden path in order to take new territory. God calls us to be promise possessors not wilderness wanderers.

‘The Welcome’ is a recurring theme throughout the Gospels.  Jesus shows us the way to welcome – embracing warmly and without reservation. When we, The Church, welcome extravagantly we keep the purpose for all our work at the centre of what we do.

God does not want you to think small – He wants you to think BIG! Do not exchange the bigness of what God can do for a life of small. Nothing is too hard for the Lord.