Category: Mindset

  • CCUC Family – A call out to please honour your brother and sister

    The season in which we find ourselves in is most unusual. It is also distressing for many and a time when anxiety levels have risen dramatically. 

    It is a season to ‘rest’ in our faith in a faithful Father (as we have with young Elijah). To rest in our faith is to worship God wholeheartedly, trust in Him, to live our lives as Jesus lived His, to be faithful and obedient to the word.

    We live in a community divided in its practice and belief about COVID. That reality is reflected in our faith community. Some adhere strongly to the health directives given by the government. Some believe strongly that it is dangerous to do so. And there are many who sit somewhere in between.

    In the past, through announcements in the newsletter, at church during services and in special letters (like this) I have asked that you honour one another – that is, take regard for your brother and sister. If we don’t we run the danger of being arrogant in our faith and not loving our brother and sister. (more…)

  • “Who we are in Christ changes everything”

    It matters that we have a right understanding of who we
    are     because of whose we are.

    “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus…And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His son into your hearts, crying out, ‘Abba, Father!’  Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son,
    then an heir of God through Christ.”
    Galatians 3:26; 4:6-7 NKJV

    Jesus was not a servant who aspired to be a son, He is the Son who chose to serve.  Jesus was not a servant working His way up the ladder.  In the incarnation, Jesus is fully God.  Pre-existent, eternal, the one by whom and for whom all things were created.  He is the King of Glory. Which makes it all the more remarkable that He chose to be a servant.  He was not in a position of weakness trying to earn the Father’s favour, it was already His.   (more…)

  • Failure a catalyst to faith

    Failure is often a catalyst to faith in the Kingdom of God. Oftentimes we assume that God can’t use areas of our lives where we lack capability and craft. Thus, we confine and constrict ourselves to what’s comfortable and familiar, instead of leaping into the land of risk.

    Yet, it’s often in the land of risk that we find the catalysts to greater depth of the supernatural in our life.

    Now, let me be clear; I am not encouraging any sense of moral failure in order to reach greater levels of faith, but it is obvious that Jesus created a culture of faith around Him.

    The Bible says that Judas was a thief and Jesus knew it (John 12:4-7). Yet Jesus made Judas the treasurer of His ministry. Why would Jesus make Judas the treasurer when He knew that he was a thief? (more…)