How do you respond to a change in season? With excitement and hope or anxiety and dread? As we gear up for a new school term, Mark contrasts how the world would counsel us to approach it and how the Bible lays out our approach. Diving into the often mis-understood Book of Ecclesiastes, we see that ultimately, everything is Vanity! A message of hope!? You bet.
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1 | The transformational compassion of Jesus
July 28, 2024 • Clare Mulrooney • John 4
Journeying through John 4 and the women at Samaria’s encounter with Jesus, we become witnesses to impact (and challenge!) of the outrageous compassion of Jesus, that began with a simple question and ended in the transformation not of just one woman but many in Samaria.
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2 | Extreme Makeover
August 4, 2024 • Fred Badu
3 | DTI Special: STAND FIRM
August 18, 2024 • Paul Lee
The youth share their experiences of Dreaming The Impossible (DTI), and we will be thinking about what it means to STAND FIRM, every day, no matter whether we are at a festival or not.
4 | Deeper Still
August 25, 2024 • Wendy Howson
Wendy looks at three key themes of the Bible: The Garden, The Tree, and The River, and explores the Biblical significance of each and how these impact us, our communities and the wider world today.
OR Wendy explores the interweaving of key themes in the Bible of The Garden, The Tree, and The River, and how we can experience a deeper relationship with God by understanding the importance of these spiritually to bring fullness to our own faith walk and to others.
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5 | Am I not sending you?
September 1, 2024 • Prit Josephs
As the summer ends and we gear up for another year of routine, Prit spends looks at three lies we might believe that can stop us giving the Lord our "yes", and some truths about who God is and how He loves to work with us.
