Alistair shares from Genesis 17 and Mark 8 on the Second Sunday of Lent 2021 as part of KNEC Church online.

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Alistair shares from Genesis 9:8-17 and Mark 1:9-15 on the First Sunday of Lent 2021 as part of KNEC Church Online

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“Jesus didn’t want to go, and it is very possible he resisted.  But the Spirit drove him, anyway.

Maybe it’s strange that I find this detail comforting, but I do.  Why?  Because it rings true to life.  Most of the time, we don’t choose to enter the wilderness.  We don’t volunteer for pain, loss, danger, or terror.  But the wilderness happens, anyway.  Whether it comes to us in the guise of a devastating pandemic, a frightening hospital stay, a broken relationship, a hurting child, or a loss of faith, the wilderness appears, unbidden and unwelcome, at our doorsteps.  And sometimes it is God’s own Spirit who drives us there.”

(Blog - “Journey with Jesus”, Debie Thomas)

Brenda shares from Psalm 30, Mark 1:40-45 and 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 as part of KNEC Church online 14 February 2021

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Grace and peace everyone!

Alistair shares from 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 and Mark 1:29-39 as part of church online

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Thank you Jesus that you didn’t stay confined

To the one place

But you moved on

From synagogue to synagogue

Reaching many

Preaching grace

Expelling evil

So the Word spread

From village to village

Town to town

A flickering flame

Igniting bundles if dry grass

The holy spirit and fire

Fan into flame faith in our hearts

To walk in the paths of your amazing grace

In Jesus name

Amen.

Alistair shares from 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 and Mark 1:21-28 as part of KNEC Church Online 2021.

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Alistair shares on Mark 1:14-20 and Jonah 3:1-5, 10 on the call to follow Jesus as part of KNEC Church Online 24 January 2021.

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When day comes, we ask ourselves where can we find light in this never-ending shade?

(Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb)

Shane Claiborne’s The Irresistible Revolution

Rodney Stark The Triumph of Christianity (https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-book-blog/2020/how-did-early-christians-respond-to-plagues).

Alistair shares from Mark 1:4-11 and Acts 19:1-7 as part of KNEC Church online 10/1/21

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Alistair shares from John 1:10-18 and Ephesians 1:3-14 as part of KNEC Church Online.

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Alistair shares from Luke 1:26-38 and 46-55 on the Fourth Sunday in Advent 2020 as part of KNEC Church Online.

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Alistair shares from John 1 and Isaiah 61 as part of KNEC Church Online 13 December 2020

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“We can read the history of our 13.7-billion-year-old universe as the rising up of Divine Love incarnate, which bursts forth in the person of Jesus, who reveals love’s urge toward wholeness through reconciliation, mercy, peace, and forgiveness.

Jesus is the love of God incarnate, the wholemaker who shows the way of evolution toward unity in love.

In Jesus, God breaks through and points us in a new direction; not one of chance or blindness but one of ever-deepening wholeness in love.

In Jesus, God comes to us from the future to be our future. Those who follow Jesus are to become wholemakers, uniting what is scattered, creating a deeper unity in love.

Christian life is a commitment to love, to give birth to God in one’s own life and to become midwives of divinity in this evolving cosmos. We are to be wholemakers of love in a world of change.”

Ilia Delio “Love at the Heart of the Universe” (2013)