Cultivate

Paul begins to introduce his really big ideas in Ephesians by ensuring the church are clear about the issues that are essential: mercy, grace and unity.  
Mercy and grace are the ingredients that make us God's masterpiece, His poetry and lays the foundation for us to live in unity.

A very brief introduction to the book of Ephesians and a brief exploring of the themes of redemption and adoption in the first chapter.

The seventh sign of John's gospel, the raising of Lazarus.   

The sixth sign in the book of John is the healing of the man born blind.
In healing the man's blindness Jesus reveals the spiritual blindness of the Pharisees.
Physical blindness leads people to rely on their other senses, spiritual blindness leads to people to lean more on their own error.
Rather than celebrate the man's healing they wanted to be right.  When we are more focused on the law than setting people free we are on dangerous ground and we need to move from sight to insight, from knowledge to revelation. 

The fifth sign in John is Jesus walking on water.  Jesus asks the disciples to cross a body of water that could be dangerous to a town he had already cursed.  Included in the disciples were fisherman who had fished their whole lives on these waters and knew them to be dangerous but in Mark 6:45 Jesus "insisted" they go.   How do we act in trust?

The 4th sign in the Gospel of John is the feeding of the 5000.  Why was this miracle so important it was recorded in all four gospels?

The third sign of John is the healing of the man at the pool of Bethesda.  Just as Jesus offered the man with a disability healing two thousand years ago, He offers you wholeness today.

The second sign in John is found in chapter 4.  
We are saved by grace NOT works but this does not mean we can ignore the words and commands of Jesus.

In the gospel of John there are seven signs, each of them an essential lesson in faith illustrated with a miracle.  This week we explore the first sign, the miracle of the water turned into wine.

We all love to serve in the areas of our gifting but how often do we examine our motivation for serving?  This podcast looks at the example Jesus gave and how we can best serve Him and others.