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Why Settle for a Mouthful of Coffee Grounds?

May 20, 2018 • Graeme Sellers

Experiencing an outpouring of Holy Spirit is a phenomenon you cannot fully appreciate by reading about it. Or having a good theology for it. You have to be in the room where it happens, when it happens.

While we don’t look to replicate a second Pentecost experience any more than we would attempt to enact a second Calvary, we do look for (and must have) ongoing fillings with Holy Spirit.

Paul commands us in Ephesians 5:18b, “Be filled with the Spirit. The command in Greek is a present imperative and does not describe a onetime "filling" but a regular pattern of life.
o IOW: be filled and keep on being filled!
Doing this life with God without experiencing regular infilling of HS is like going to a great restraint and reading the menu but never eating any of the food. Or, to alter the metaphor slightly…

More from 2018 Messages

Upside Down Kingdom

December 30, 2018 • Dirk Duhlstine

God says: 1. If you want to be great… be a servant 2. To find yourself…you must die to yourself 3. To get back at your enemy…you should love him 4. To become rich… give money away God's kingdom is an upside down kingdom! When we clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience and love…which is clothing ourselves with the person and nature of http://christ...we’re clothing ourselves for battle.

Words Create Worlds

December 23, 2018 • Graeme Sellers

Our words create worlds. The words we speak shape and create world we live in. Words have always created worlds. It’s true. How was our world made? Words. Ten times in the creation account of Genesis 1 we read this: “And God said…” Their impact is captured in Genesis 2:1 “Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.” Gen. 1:28 reports that we are made in God’s image, so why should it surprise us that our words have creative power as well? God would urge us to listen to ourselves, to pay attention to the words we speak and the worlds they create.

What's the Point?

December 16, 2018 • Graeme Sellers

What’s the point of this – the Sunday morning church gathering that is, for many of us, a regular part of our lives? What if the point isn’t what we think it is, or is more than we imagined it is? God isn’t afraid of honest inquiry or the fierce conversation, and the answers to this question may surprise and delight us!