A serious call that Amos answered

"Those who loved me called me out of my sleep and warned me of both the danger I was in, and the opportunity I was missing"

God says "All I want is you" and wants us to respond to the call of the Holy Spirit with "...and all I want is you"

"The presence of prayer is actually a manifestation of our dependence on God. A lack of prayer is a picture of your independence from God"

or in other words: "If I pray it's because I need God, and if I don't pray it's because I think I can do very without Him thank you very much!"

Youth Take Over - Age is just a number

Wake Up!

"One generation will praise your deeds to another,

and tell about your mighty acts" Psalms 145v4

Summer Sundays 3rd August 2025

There is a difference between sitting down for a rest, and settling down to stop

1. Obedience over the obvious

2. Make camp in the strange places

3. Build God's thing

Obedience needs ears more than it needs eyes

Summer Sundays : 1

"... let us hold unwaveringly to the hope that we confess - Why? Because God, who made the promise, is trustworthy." Hebrews 10v23

The promise is good

The promise giver is good

Relationship Reset - Taste and See that the Lord is good.

"I will exalt you, my God the King; I will praise your name for ever and ever.  Every day I will praise you extol your name for ever and ever..."

Psalm 145

Relationship Reset : Part 9 - Personality

Not Everyone is a hugger - and that's kay

The Church needs your personality / your flavour - to play your role

You are not a problem to God, you are his child.

Relationship Reset - Friendship

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 NIV

"Forgiveness wasn't Christ's ultimate goal on the cross. Reconciliation was. And there's an important difference, Reconciliation, literally means "the restoration of friendship". It doesn't just say, okay, things are right between us now, you can move on your life without debt, reconciliation says, Forget what you owe me - I want you, I want what we had before this crisis. I want your presence in its fullness being fully enjoyed by me as I'm fully enjoyed by you. I've sorted what's owed? Forget that? Now you can truly know feel and experience how much I love and celebrate you. And you can know me as that father again. - This is the gospel and how incredible it is - that God hasn't just forgiven us, He's fully restored our place at his table of friendship forever. It is stunning that we might be called, friends of God."

Strahan Coleman - Beholding (ISBN-13: 9780830785186)

Faith

The Power of Collaboration

(and the pain of being overlooked)

Relationship Reset - Part 5 Parenthood

Mary & Joseph lost Jesus for three days, you're not doing that bad!