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Be With, Be Like - pt 3: Joy

‘Be with, be like’ is an exploration of fruitfulness, and what it is to experience and exhibit the Father’s love and Christlike Way by the Holy Spirit. In this third week we are exploring joy: how it arrives, how to cultivate it in our lives and how to live in the paradox of it.

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Be With, Be Like - pt 2: Love

‘Be with, be like’ is an exploration of fruitfulness, and what it is to experience and exhibit the Father’s love and Christlike Way by the Holy Spirit. In this second week we start exploring the fruit of the Spirit one by one, beginning with the first - and even only one - ‘love’.

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Be With, Be Like - pt 1: Introduction to fruitfulness

‘Be with, be like’ is an exploration of fruitfulness, and what it is to experience and exhibit the Father’s love and Christlike Way by the Holy Spirit. In this first week we kick off the series by introducing the importance of a life of fruitfulness and asking what’s inside the metaphor?

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Matter, matters - pt 7: Our Beautiful Earth

This week Dan interviews Michelle Kennedy, founder of Six Generations, and discuss God’s good creation of the earth, our God-given job of stewarding it, some reflections on how we are doing at that and how we need to in the future.

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Matter, matters - pt 5: Consuming Beings

As human beings we have a need for fuel and an enjoyment of what we taste. God has gifted us the provision for these core needs. In a culture of over indulging and binging, how do we live with respect, gratitude and care for what we consume?

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Matter, matters - pt 4: Sexual Beings

Paul’s key point on not being dualistic comes in hot amongst a point about what it means to be sexual beings. How does it look to be a sexual being when we are living with an integrated body and spirit?

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Matter, matters - pt 2: The Rewiring

What does it mean to be the temple of the Holy Spirit? If matter is good, then we have some rewiring to do. Creation has been made like a temple, with a trajectory and an order, and we are to partner with God to enjoy working in it and steward it as image bearers – but we are not Lord over it.

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Matter, matters - pt 1: Introduction

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As we being our series, we get our bearings for what looking at Christ-centred materiality will be all about. We explore the New Testament and Early church rejections of Platonic Dualism and discover how they aren’t just a problem for back then, but they live on today in many polar divisions in culture and the Church.

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Eastertide pt 4: The left behind

We’re taking the four weeks after Easter to linger a little longer on the four stories from Luke 24. What do we do as the Easter event The final scene of Luke’s gospel has a few things for us to consider.

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Eastertide pt 3: The doubting

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We’re taking the four weeks after Easter to linger a little longer on the four stories from Luke 24. What do we do with moments of doubt with God or misunderstanding the work of Jesus? A scene in a room with the doubting disciples leads us to seek some answers together.

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Eastertide pt 2: The Disappointed

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We’re taking the four weeks after Easter to linger a little longer on the four stories from Luke 24. What do we do with moments of being disappointed in God or misunderstanding the work of Jesus? A road scene with two people having an open conversation has some answers for us to consider.

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Eastertide pt 1: The Perplexed

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We’re taking the four weeks after Easter to linger a little longer on the four stories from Luke 24. What do we do with moments of felling perplexed and disorientated in faith? A garden scene with some women and then Peter has some encouragement and answers for us.

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