What do you do when you're afraid? Do you stare at the frightening circumstances that surround you? Do you run away from your problems? Do you frantically seek help from those may provide support and counsel, but can't actually alleviate or conquer your fears? Or do you run to Jesus, who is the only One who is sovereign over the circumstance that you face? In this sermon of the "From a wedding to a funeral" series we see a man who walks from his situation to the One who can deal with it directly.

Are you tired of the injustices in the world and in your nation and in the local community? Are you fed up with the constant oppression and hatred against people who can’t defend or speak up for themselves? Are you fed up with the continuous exploitation of the weak and the poor? Do you feel a righteous indignation within at the evil that you see all around you? You’re not alone. Jesus, the Son of God demonstrated His righteous indignation at the injustice and exploitation displayed in the outer courts of the Jewish temple. The sign we see here is the foretelling of the destruction of the temple. But not the physical building but His own body.

This week, as we embark in a new series on the signs of Jesus in the Gospel of John, we take a look at Jesus' first sign of turning water to wine. We see that once we've ran out and are empty, there's only one Person we can turn to to refill us afresh.

The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah’s wickedness comes to God’s hearing. Justice must be done. Lot and his family are urged to flee for their lives by two angels, but what does Lot do? He hesitates. "What was he thinking?", we may ask - and rightly so. But we must ask ourselves a similar question: "why do we hesitate at the things that require our attention, now?"

Today being Ascension day, we thought we'd look back to last year where Pastor Ryan King preached on Acts 1:6-11 on 2019's Ascension day.

Ascension Day marks the occasion some 40 days after Christ's resurrection from the dead when Jesus returned to the glory of heaven. The ascension matters. It is rooted in the soil of everything else about Jesus Christ's life and bears fruit in and for Christ's followers.

David, on the run from King Saul, and being rejected whilst seeking refuge, finds himself in a cave and soon sees himself receiving those who are rejected, distressed and discontented. David’s reception of those who are rejected and dejected is a type of Jesus, the Son of David who calls all those who are distressed and heavy-laden to Himself and to receive them as His people.

As we draw our Rebuild series in the book of Haggai to a close, we look forward to the promise of the Lord who will shake and destroy everything and anything that is in opposition to Him. We also see that through the line of Zerubbabel, God will bring about a Kingdom that will not be shaken.

Just because you do spiritual stuff, does not make you holy. Just because you have had contact with people, places, or things, that have been touched by holiness does not make you holy. Your proximity to right relationship with God by virtue of relationships or activities does not mean you possess right relationship with God. As the Israelites resume work on the temple, they learn this. We should learn it too!

After being motivated to rebuild the temple, the Israelites are becoming discouraged at the lesser glory of the second temple. However, God promises to restore glory to this temple and even beyond what His people would hope.

Pastor Ryan King resumes our Rebuild series in the book of Haggai, where he preaches on what motivates God's people as they seek to obey His voice.