Sometimes our pain is caused by the reactions of others.
We can be overcome by their disapproval and condemnation of us and the way we live.
We can be overcome by their disapproval and condemnation of us and the way we live.
Watch how Jesus deals with the sense of guilt and the condemnation of others.
Anxiety preys on all of us.
It makes us fear we won’t have enough, or that we will be overwhelmed.
Jesus knows this and is able to transform these fears of not having enough to living abundantly.
Too many of us wonder whether we are good enough, or fear what others might think about us.
The power of shame can be crippling.
Jesus rescues us from that power so that we can live joy-filled lives.
How did the ‘hopes and fears of all the years’ meet in Jesus?
How do we invest well in the next generations?
Into our children’s lives, and the children in our church, and in grandchildren?
Humility is the key – it marks out God’s people as following Jesus. It can be the mark of our relationships together and can be the mark of church together.
We believe that everyone should have the chance to explore faith, ask questions, and share their point of view. Alpha is a series of weekly sessions exploring the Christian faith where you can explore the big questions of life and faith in a friendly and non-judgemental atmosphere, discussing questions like ‘Is there more to life…
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Prayer shapes our character and in times of crisis, we reveal who we really are. As Jesus hung in agony on a Roman cross, unjustly brutalised, facing certain death, his prayers revealed who he was and defied the expectations of everyone.
How might our prayer life shape us to do the same?
In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus enacted a part of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’, ‘Your will be done’, and he did it alone.
How can we learn to pray, trusting in God, when things are not as we would hope and we feel we are facing them alone?
In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples to be protected from the evil one, to be full of joy, to be sanctified and to be unified.
Could he still be praying those things for us now and how might we part of the answer?
John 17 is the most revealing of all prayers: it’s a window into the intimacy shared between Jesus and his Father before the creation of the world…
Faith in Jesus means nothing if you don’t love Jesus’ friends.
And love means nothing if it isn’t accompanied by action.
It’s what we do, not what we say.
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