Philippians 1:3-11

20230528_Pentecost (Speaker: Chris Clare) by St Leonard's Church Chesham Bois

20230521_Encounter - Letting Go (Speaker: Chris Clare) by St Leonard's Church Chesham Bois

Philippians 1:2

Philippians 1:1

Ephesians 2:4-6, Colossians 3:1-17

Revelation 19:11-16

The video used during this talk can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqTFNfeDnE

Unfortunately, due to an error with the recording device, the first 90 seconds of this talk were unusable. Here is a transcript of what was said (the recording starts at 'we get distracted'):

"So, my title this morning is “Living in the Reality of the Cross”. I think in some ways we all know what that means. We all have our own idea of what living in the reality of the cross means, but do we really KNOW what that means in our hearts? Does it inform how we live? Does it change the way that we live? Because if we do truly live in that reality of the cross, our lives will look completely different to the world. And so, I’m just going to talk a little bit about that, and maybe how we can know that a little bit more in our lives today.

I think it’s very easy, when we’re at church, or at home group, or any other Christian context, or when we’re with our Christian friends, it’s really easy to live in the reality of the cross. Because we’re with people who are like-minded, we’re with people who are worshipping. And our hearts go, 'yes, I really want this! Yes, I’m going to move forward! Yes, I’m going to respond!' And when we go about our daily lives, with whatever that means, we get distracted…"

Scripture: Galatians 5:1, Hebrews 8:2, Hebrews 12:1-2

Romans 8:1-4, 12-17, 27, 37-39

John 17:20-23, Psalm 133:1-3, Acts 2:18