When we don't get what we pray for does our faith sustain us in the reality of life?

When we don't feel normal, what do we turn to?

Sometimes we will only accept a cure or a solution. The Bible offers us something called lament.

How does a person make the choice to step away from the familiar, comfortable and secure to follow what they believe God is calling them to?

What do we lose when when we strip the birth of Jesus down to sentimentality or sanitise it to make it more palatable or even tolerable?

No one was ready for the first Christmas, and we shouldn’t try to be either.

Like Joseph at the beginning of the Christmas story, we all live in a world where we engage in impression management.

The God of the Christmas story is a God of the middle of all of our stories

Why is it that at Christmas, more than other times of the year, Christians seem to increase their pursuit of the “spiritual” over the “materialistic”? We ask this because the tradition of celebrating Christmas is rooted in God become “material”. The incarnation celebrates God-made-flesh and being amongst us.

In this teaching we thought a little bit more about what it looks like to think of church less as something that we come to but as something that we are. Even something that we do.