Emmanuel City Centre Key verse to learn “Consider the ravens: they do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!” Luke 12:24 (NIV) Key question to ask: How can you speak God’s Word into your anxieties? Extraordinary thing to say:…
When things are tough we often look to the wrong places to satisfy our needs. Emma Scrivener (check out her superb blog A New Name) helpfully shows us how we have something so much richer to hold on to in difficult times. Straws and Safety Nets
“My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, and what He has done and what He is now doing for me.” C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.269, Hendrickson Publishers
“My anger boiled over into a yell before we’d even finished the first bites of breakfast: “Guys, knock it off!” Guilt set in immediately. I’d done it again…” How to Fight Anger in Motherhood
‘The work of a Beethoven, and the work of a charwoman, become spiritual on the same condition, that of being offered to God, of being done humbly “as to the Lord.”‘ CS Lewis, ‘Learning in War-Time’ in CS Lewis Essay Collection: Literature, Philosophy and Short Stories, p.175.
This week we have a video link to Ed Shaw speaking recently at the Single:Minded conference in Sydney on Singleness & Sexuality: Life as a Sexual Being…without sex. ‘Singleness and Sexuality’
‘I do not think that what the Bible says about the love of God can long survive at the forefront of our thinking if it is to be abstracted from the sovereignty of God, the holiness of God, the wrath of God, the providence of God, or the personhood of God – to mention a…
Join the staff team in reading Daniel Doriani’s recent book Work. Then on Thursday 28th November, for the next #RenewYourMind session, Ed Shaw will host an evening for anyone up for chatting about the book. Ed says “This is a book that challenges not just our reasons for work but also our ways of working…
What would it look like to forgive others as Christ has forgiven us? This is worth watching:
Many of us will be familiar with Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. But how can we respond when we see Scripture being mishandled? This article might prove good food for thought. “Yet, real Christianity is about a God who uses power differently. The gospel demonstrates God’s power to bring freedom, salvation, and fullness of life.”…