Category: Kingdom

  • Jesus committed his life to us

    Through the life and ministry of Jesus, Jesus invested his life, Jesus invested his love! Rather than moving away from people who were broken and even angry he moved toward them – toward us. John 12:23-24 tells us he moved toward us willingly, and was completely and unequivocally prepared to die for those he loved. This act is an expression of the Father heart of God toward us. As I have said on this before, God’s actions in and through Jesus was a wilful act of God to deposit life, salvation, healing, strength into us.

    God committed himself to us, with the hope that we might commit ourselves to him, that we might commit our lives toward one another.

    The gospel tells us that Jesus was willing to take a bullet for us and now because of the covenant he established with us he asks us – are we willing to take a bullet for those we love for those with which we share this covenant? (more…)

  • You will not have this time over again to worship God – take the opportunity to worship face-to-face at Mission Beach, Innisfail, or ‘online live’ on our face book page.

  • Jesus has paid the price and cancelled punishment

    I believe we are all very clear that as a  result of Jesus’ actions – his selfless sacrifice- our condition has changed by grace through faith. We have been transformed. I think we might all agree with this. One way of describing our transformed condition ‘now’ before God is that we are ‘unpunnishable’. A slightly more contentious proposition.

    Let me quote Danny Silk, he says …
    “Jesus satisfied the wrath of God toward sin.  Jesus’ death on the cross satisfied the need for God to punish sin in man. When Jesus went to the cross and gave His life as the perfect sacrifice, He ended an insatiable condition. He also introduced an entirely different reality based on an entirely different relationship between God and mankind. He removed the need for punishment.  He removed fear from our relationship with Him.” (more…)

  • Honour and Confrontation 

    Over the last three weeks I have been encouraging you to have a ‘heart of honour’ so that our community of faith and you individually might live in a Culture of Honour. Over this time I have suggested to you that the way we do that is by pouring our strength into the lives of those around us. This week just past I asked you to believe and affirm that if we are to live in a ‘covenant of love’, then …..
    “my life is committed to your life”
    “we are better together – we are stronger together”

    I credit Ps Danny Silk and Ps Bill Johnson with unpacking and teaching me these biblical truths. In a blog by Danny Silk April 2012 “Culture and Confrontation” he goes on to say ….. (more…)