In part 8 of our series through Colossians, Brian talks about how we should live our lives as representatives of Jesus, letting the the love, peace, kindness, etc that we receive from Jesus flow into the people and relationships around you.
We our back to our Colossians series with part 7 and today Brian encourages us to go all in to following Jesus. To learn about Jesus and become more like him, to set aside sinful things and set our sights on heaven.
Every year we celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles or as Brian calls it, the Feast of Eternity. Brian encourages us to give our lives to Jesus if we haven't yet. He also challenges us to life our thoughts above our stresses and anxieties and spend these next 7 days thinking about the joy of heaven and eternity with God.
As we get ready for Gifts Week, Laura talked about generosity as a path to joy; becoming Generous & Joy-filled people in response to a generous & joy-filled God!
This week, Pastor Buchan discusses generosity and why we should be generous. Exploring the relevance of generosity today as Christians and how to apply generosity as a lifestyle rather than as a one off, remembering that we are blessed to be a blessing!
Part of Re:Hope Church’s yearly rhythms is to take a week to practice intentional generosity. In this special message, Re:Hope Southside’s lead pastor, Crooksy, outlines why we have this practice, why we do it at this time of year and goes on to draw helpful principles for generosity from Luke 10 and Luke 18. Crooksy highlights some common some common traps we want to avoid when it comes to generosity and offers a way to unlock generosity in our lives.
In part 6 of our Colossians series, Brian points out 6 false paths we might find ourselves taking. He then encourages us to reflect on where our efforts lay: in attempting to appear to be a better Christian to others or to attempting to actually grow genuinely deeper in my relationship with Jesus.
In part 5 of the Colossians series, Brian encourages us to continue running after Jesus and ends on Colossians 2:13-14: "You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for he forgave all our sins. He canceled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross."
In part 4 of our Colossians series, Brian talks about responding to the amazingness of Jesus and what kind of impact we would like to make for Jesus in our lifetime.