The Gift of Belonging 28 December 2014 Alison Sampson Children, Christmas, Formation, Jesus Luke 0 Comments To grow up well, children need to be anchored to a broad community with shared values, which nevertheless allows for individual differences.
Virgin 24 December 2014 Alison Sampson Christmas, Incarnation Luke 0 Comments We are welcoming a baby born into occupied territories to a fiercely holy young woman, and we are recognising in that baby the hope of liberation.
What if it was God? 21 December 2014 Nathan Nettleton Conversion, Formation, Hope Matthew 0 Comments Joseph models a courageous willingness to be stripped of his sense of entitlement that he might become all God wanted him to be.
Preparing by the Rules 14 December 2014 Nathan Nettleton Faithfulness, Hope, Law 1 & 2 Thessalonians, John 0 Comments Preparing ourselves for the coming Lord is not a matter of rigorous rule keeping, but rules can help us learn the appropriate new way of being.
What are we preparing for? 7 December 2014 Alison Sampson Apocalypse, Hope, Salvation 1 & 2 Peter, Isaiah, Mark, Psalms 0 Comments Advent is preparing us for the coming of the Lord, that already and not-yet event for which people have lived and worked and prayed for millennia.