Gracehouse

Jesus teaches his disciples how to judge an analogy. First remove the log from your own eye. Then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother's eye. The wisdom he gives us through this paradigm changes how we approach sin in our lives as well as the sins of others.

Does the church of today look and feel like the house of our father in heaven? In many ways it does, but there is still much that Jesus wants to refine and cleanse. These are exciting times for the church as we are in the process of becoming, all the more, the fathers house.

In the book of Genesis, we discover that human beings are made in the 'image' of God. We were always meant to bear his image and reflect his character and glory in the earth. So how do we recover this great vocation? By looking to Jesus who is the perfect image of God, by being transformed by his goodness and love, and then reflecting that same goodness and love into the world around us.

What does scripture have to say about family? How important is it for God’s purposes in the earth? How can we do family well? Have a listen to this week’s sermon as we tackle these all-important questions.

Yesterday we were very blessed to have Steve Stewart from Impact Nations sharing with us. Steve encouraged us to remember that God is extravagant in his pursuit of mankind, and so we should likewise be extravagant in spreading the revelation of Jesus wherever we go.

The heart of God towards humanity has been made clear in the person of Jesus. He desires to know us and for us to know him. But often we can get distracted and distanced and we let the 'little foxes' begin to undermine and destroy the good relationship we should have with the Lord.

God is transitioning the understanding and expression of his church in the earth. There’s no doubt this experience will come with many challenges, but there will also be much occasion for rejoicing, as Jesus is in the process of beautifying his bride.

God’s central mission has always been to bless his creation and to bring it into a permanent state of blessing. This means that God’s heartcry is for the prosperity of the entire creative order. Humans flourish by functioning rightly in relation to how God designed them to live, as well as relating rightly to one another, to God, and to the rest of creation. As God’s image, we play a key role in the process of fulfilling God’s mission, as we partner with him in blessing his creation.

Russel Wright really blessed us this week by encouraging us to look at people with the eyes of Jesus and to love them with self-giving love of God. Jesus was a friend to sinners, and he served the rejected and despised. As his followers he has called us to love the world in the same way.

So often we think of our relationship with God as an individual affair which is true in one sense. But there is also a revelation of Gods glory being revealed in community in the unveiled faces of the believers around us.