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Faithful Presence - pt 12 (1 John 5:13-21 / The last song)

Dan Sheed finishes our Faithful Presence series by wrapping it up simply with an analogy on how John wrote 1 John and a few key reflections. (Note, it's Mother's Day today so our gathering had another element that shortened our message time down significantly.)

John’s letter has been like a set of music, and here the final chord of the song rings out: “Dear children, keep away from anything that might take God’s place in your hearts.”

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Faithful Presence - pt 9 (1 John 3:11-18 / Love each other)

Guest speaker Mathew Newton shares in our Faithful Presence series, exploring how we are to live life right now as people with one arm out to the broken world and one arm out to God's love.

We can be Christ only this way: holding onto the brokenness of the world with one hand and the love of God with the other. In this cruciform-shaped tension is how the love of God is going to be able to bring healing from here to there.

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Faithful Presence - pt 6 (1 John 2:4-14)

Amanda Pilbrow shares the next part of our journey through 1 John, drawing us to see that John is going after a big problem in this section: to believe anything less than seeing ourselves in the way God sees, we have reverted to the old problem again. 

The work has already been done, the homerun has already been struck outside of the stadium, but we keep getting stuck on first base ... Seeing ourselves through our own eyes, our own works, our own actions, our own perceptions, we miss the homerun that Christ has already achieved.

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