Renewal Church

This Sunday marks the beginning of Advent. This is a season Christians have observed for many centuries. It’s a season of heightened remembrance of the coming of the Messiah and of heightened hope for his final return when he will purge the world of its evil and bring about the New Creation. A salvation that began with the birth of a baby will be consummated by a triumphant King. Advent is about learning to live in between. For his glory and our joy.

“Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them” - Romans 12:6

God designed the church to function as a self-loving community, a gathering profoundly marked by honor – the giving of honor and intentions acts of kindness to one another. This is to be characteristic of God’s church. These traits are the reasonable outcome of the power of the gospel.

“Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them” - Romans 12:6

God designed the church to function as a self-loving community, a gathering profoundly marked by honor – the giving of honor and intentions acts of kindness to one another. This is to be characteristic of God’s church. These traits are the reasonable outcome of the power of the gospel.

What does it actually mean to be loving in our culture? What does it mean to be loving as a Christian man or Christian woman toward those within the church as well as outside the church? What does it mean to be loving when it comes to the issue of human sexuality? And how do we actually model the image of God as male and female? Join us in a dialogue about human sexuality in the Kingdom of God.

'After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”'

We joyfully anticipate the full expression of the Kingdom of God as described in Revelation 7:9-10. But how do we consider the Kingdom implications in the now-but-not-yet when we look at the nations globally, or as the nations come here? Join us this Sunday as we discuss migration in light of scripture.

We’ve been talking in great detail about our lives in the ever-present Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of the Heavens which is, concisely, the entanglement of our lives with the Spirit. Entangle means to be twisted together with something, in this case, with someone. Entangled with God. Your real life twisted together with the Spirit. Today we want to focus on the future reality of that Kingdom. A future of biological, spiritual, social, political, psychological, and ecological wholeness. “Look, I am making all things new” (Rev. 21:5). Jesus is King.