In the first episode of this series, we began in Genesis 1, where humanity is named before it performs.

In this episode we will stay in Eden, but we are asking a slightly different question.  What did the original design feel like?  What was it like for Adam & Eve to know God, not through fear, but through fellowship.

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Welcome to another series of The Secret Place with Derek Peters.

In this series, Derek will be unpacking the question that sits underneath every other question of human life.  Who are we?

In the beginning, before there was shame, there was blessing. When God looked at His creation, he called it good.  And when humankind appears in the story, made in His image and likeness, God called it very good.

Very good - the first identity statement over the human race.

In this episode we'll look at how the Father has never surrendered His intention for humanity.

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Welcome to another series of The Secret Place with Derek Peters.

In this series, Derek will be unpacking the question that sits underneath every other question of human life.  Who are we?

We aren't what we do, what we've achieved, or what people think of us.  It goes deeper than that.

The Scriptures open with the staggering claim that humans are made in the image and likeness of God.  We were created to live as the visible expression of God on the Earth.

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Welcome to a new mini-series of The Secret Place with Derek Peters.  In this series, Derek will unpacking the words of Jesus where He says that "I am the way, the truth, and the life".

In this final episode, we are reflecting on Jesus as our Life, because Jesus defines life, in the first instance, as a communion.  Real life is our shared life with God.

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Welcome to a new mini-series of The Secret Place with Derek Peters.  In this series, Derek will unpacking the words of Jesus where He says that "I am the way, the truth, and the life".

The second episode focuses on truth, the first principle of which is built on the unchangeable premise of relationship.  Jesus is the embodiment of the truth that the Living God of the universe wants relationship with us.  

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Welcome to a new mini-series of The Secret Place with Derek Peters.  In this series, Derek will unpacking the words of Jesus where He says that "I am the way, the truth, and the life".

This first episode reflects on the way, because when Jesus says 'I am the way', he isn't offering directions - he is saying something far more intimate than that.

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This is our second reflection on 'the world', so make sure you go back and listen to the previous episode before diving into this final piece.

The world, according to the Bible, is the systemised, normalisation of deception and falsehood that has seen generations believe the lies of the devil.  This has created cultures of thinking and practices that affirm these lies into daily thinking.

But in the midst of this world system stands Jesus - the way, the truth and the life.

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The focus of this series has been to unmask the strategy of the enemy, and in this episode, we start to look at the world.  But the world is not the planet, or even creation itself.

The world is our way of life - the complex network of values, habits, rewards, assumptions and social affirmations that give order to the world's fallen systems, at odds with the wisdom of God.

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This is the second part of our investigation into what the Bible calls 'the flesh' - what it is, and how it operates against the Spirit of God in our lives.

In this episode we look at freedom from 'the flesh' - because God's plan for us is freedom. 

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In this episode we start to look at the flesh - what it is, and how it operates against the Spirit of God in our lives.

Many people hear the word 'flesh', and think only of the body - but the flesh is deeper than that.  The flesh is the part of us that has learned to move out of step with truth.

The good news is that the flesh is not the deepest truth about us - it is real but it is not final.

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