The Father we never knew

it was never the gospel; that God wanted us to live as if real life started sometime in the future, in a place called heaven and that this life was simply a waiting room until you discover whether you have done enough to get your name on the roll.

He never wanted us to live a life becoming with Him, but a life being with Him.Eternal life is not getting to heaven one day.

Eternal life is knowing the God who is with you today

God was so strong, that He destroyed death.

The spirit of the world can only say “Could be”

The Spirit that comes from God says “IS”.

To live filled with “the spirit of this world”, is to live trying to be a Christian.

To live filled with the Spirit that comes from God, is to live being a child of God, for the Spirit persuades our spirits that we are the children of God.

Session 1 of 3 messages on the subject "Raised with Christ" given in Inverness in June 2024

“You cannot thrive in your marriage if you keep going out at weekends acting as if you are single. What would you say to a friend who got married recently but has decided that every weekend he is still going to go out on the town with all his single mates and do everything they do?

That is what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church, the New Creation.

How can you reveal the new creation life, the married to God life to this generation, when every weekend you get together in church with people who speak to you as if you are single? “

River City Worship from Pentecost Sunday. "I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters"

A life-giving message contrasting the futility of self, with living from the life God breathes into us in Christ. "Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." John 12:24. This message was given in River City Church on Saturday May 28th 2024.

His words have such power, that by the time you hear them, everything He said is already accomplished.

To preach the Gospel in the power of the Spirit is to find yourself, much to your own surprise, speaking to what is not, as if it is. Of all the voices that are speaking to you in this world, the voice of God is the only one that does not speak to you according to your natural state.

Live reconciled.

Live from the party, not from the field.

Live from His acceptance, not for His acceptance.

It is not your job to reconcile yourself to God.

God has done that through the man Christ Jesus.

Let His life do the work.

Let His life be done unto you according to His Word to you.

Let the power of the Gospel call up in you, His life.