Guest speaker

Let me tell you three stories. The Curse, the Seed & the Snake God created a good world where God & humanity dwelt together, and where humanity was given work to do. God placed good boundaries. A snake entered the garden, The snake deceived the woman to eat , and her husband was passive. God came to…

Intro Shalom Shalom! Peace Peace! If only such peace could be ours! Last century we suffered two global conflicts that brought much of the world to it’s knees. In the wake of the 2nd world war we thought we had learned our lesson, and that we would strive to make the world a peaceful place. We thought…

Intro Angels and Demons are part of pop-culture. They have fallen into well-worn tropes, with spiritual beings either coming up from hell, or down from heaven. The angels are white and winged, the demons are red and horned. As you trace this imagery back you will see that it flows out of Christian art…

Intro Where we were, in the midst of judgement. Like moses on the shore of the Red Sea, we must be ready to rejoice at God’s judgement and his deliverance Our passage today is in part that rejoicing. Exalting God in his Judgement v1-5 When things go well for us we generally start to take things for granted.…

Opening Prayer Mighty father, Please let the words of my mouth and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, our rock and our redeemer. Amen. Intro Christmas day. It’s one of my favorite days of the year! Unfortunately it’s not for very spiritual reasons... You see Christmas is…

Humans are Pattern Recognition machines. It's a bit crude, but it's a fair assessment. A lot of our cognitive functions are for recognising patterns. When we learn to speak a language, we are learning to recognise certain patterns of sound and then create a responsive pattern of sounds with our own mouth…