As we celebrate two peoples public marking of a commitment to follow Jesus with baptism, we explore how although commitment can often be seen as a burden and a narrowing of options, Jesus invites us into, commitment and relationship. Could it really hold the key to life lived to the full?

Feedback can feel like a dirty word sometimes. But we all want to grow and get better don't we? With our family, finances, relationships maybe even our faith. How do we get better and seek feedback while recognising our need to be loved for who we are right now? Maybe we have less to prove than we think, maybe our identity could be the key to getting this right! It's hard to improve when we've got something to prove!

In all our relationships there will be gaps between what we hope or expect the other

person to say or do, and what we actually experience. We have a choice what we

place in those gaps. We can choose love, forgiveness, honesty and trust, or we can

choose suspicion.

Diversity really is the spice of life. Our worlds are full of people who aren't like us. So how do we live well with people when what we say isn't always what others hear? How can the words we choose help us live better with people who are nothing like us?

The bible is the big story of how God restored the relationship with broken people like us. So... How'd he do it?

The Old Testament chronicles God’s redemptive, sequential activity in history. It’s a fabulous, gritty, epic history of the Hebrew people in which, over and over, Israel is reminded that they are a divine means to an end. So, maybe instead of seeing the Old Testament as a spiritual guidebook or a storyline that needs to be tidied up, we should see it as something even better: the history of God preparing the world for a Saviour.

“In the beginning. . . .” can be a loaded phrase—one that forces us into debate and doubt. But maybe we’re missing the point of Genesis 1:1—a point Moses made to a world where the violence and injustice of the gods justified and legitimised the violence and injustice of human rulers. Moses introduced a radically different, unparalleled, and untested worldview.

Most of us know some Bible stories, but very few of us know the story of the Bible. And it may be surprising to discover it’s a story that doesn’t actually begin in the beginning. It begins with the accounts of a few men who sat down to record the death and resurrection of Jesus. It begins with the words of his followers who were compelled to document the events that had changed everything for them—because they knew it could change everything for us.

Actions have consequences right? But what happens when the price gets too high? When the things we do that hurt the people around us need accounting for, grace could be the answer we're looking for

We all find life complicated from time to time. We all want to get it right. What if the key to living life to the full could be found in connecting relationally?