To be in a relationship is to experience conflict! You would think that experiencing an overabundance of conflict would equip a person to be good at handling it! However, this simply isn’t true! So, we’re going to school on the life of Joseph in Genesis 43-50 to discover “Six Practical, Unlikely and Non-typical Principles for Dealing with Conflict!"

Everyone leaves a legacy for their family. We will take a look at what we can learn from a family of 3 generations – the good & the bad!

Every family has its share of conflict. Unless that conflict is resolved in a healthy way, the individuals involved will experience tension, and eventually rejection. How can God give us a healthy perspective on our disappointments and hurts? How do we overcome rejection through positive connection with others? How do we live this out in our families?

Out of more than 102 different emotions, God called-out ‘shame’ as the first bi-product of sin and brokenness! Was this by accident? Just a random selection out of all the emotions that could have been named, or was there something especially important about the power of shame? This message explores what shame is and a few practical antidotes!

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As we wrap up our month in the gospel of Matthew we find ourselves in the last few verses and an unmistakable mission-focus challenge! Three tiny two-letter words! Jesus couldn’t have painted a clearer or more poignant vision for how He intended His followers to live! These three tiny words are the seeds we’re planting in the soil of our church and of our hearts this weekend, anticipating an amazing crop of possibilities!

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Over the last couple of weekends we’ve met ‘disruptors’ who have turned markets upside-down, and of course, the world’s Greatest Disruptor, Jesus! We’ve also met ‘the-(other)-kind-of-disruptor’, the one hell-bent on stealing, killing and destroying! This weekend, we meet yet another disruptor and use her story as a springboard to discover the characteristics intrinsic in the making of a disruptor!

Last weekend we were introduced to The Great Disruptor, Immanuel, God with Us, who didn’t simply tweak or tinker with the relationship between God and His creation…He revolutionized it and turned it upside down! This week, as we journey on in our Chapter-a-Day reading plan, we find ourselves in Matthew 13 and face to face with The (other) Great Disruptor! This one will do everything he can to rob, steal and destroy…and as we know all too well, he’s pretty good at it!

The terms ‘disruptive technology’, ‘disruptive marketing’ and ‘disruptive economies’ are pretty familiar to us! However, long before the term was invented, the Greatest Disruptor of all stepped out of heaven and turned our world upside down! This message examines God’s habit of ‘challenging what is’, the status quo, in order to discover something so much greater! It’s a clarion call to do the same!