Part 4. We’re not just here to have a healthy body, a healthy church, with a loving community. We’re here to love others, to give ourselves and bring life, right to the ends of the earth.
Tag: Christian Life
Love Eastbourne: Everyone
Part 3. It’s easy to love in the abstract, from a distance, and talk about “changing the culture” or “changing the world”. But when you’re confronted with real people up close, with all their flaws and irritations, it highlights the … Continue reading “Love Eastbourne: Everyone”
Love Jesus: Everyday
Part 2. Love is the beating heart of the Christian life—not just a vague, abstract concept—but a real love for Jesus.
Love: the Foundation of Christian Community
Part 1. Love is at the absolute centre of everything we do as Christians. Dave Holden, who heads up our New Ground family of churches, shares four foundations of love.
Stealing Joy from the Future
Part 6. Hebrews 12 tells us that “For the joy set before him he endured the cross”. Jesus took joy from the future to persevere through the present. As followers of Jesus we can imitate him in this.
Raised Imperishable: Heavenly Bodies
Part 5. What does life look like after death? What does resurrection look like, and what will our bodies look like? Jesus says “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though … Continue reading “Raised Imperishable: Heavenly Bodies”
The Resurrection Changes Everything
Part 2. The whole of Christianity hinges on one moment in history which, if proved untrue, would cause the entire religion to come crashing down. But if true, it’s significance is of infinite importance to each one of us.
Life Through the Lens of the Gospel
Part 1. 1 Corinthians 15 helps us to process life through the lens of the gospel. It asks us to consider what our hope is beyond the grave.
Psalm 22: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
In Psalm 22 King David, amidst great trouble and difficulty, pours his heart out to God but also chooses to fix his eyes on Him.