FOUNDATIONS: PT 4 So often, spiritual gifts are abused because they are being used from an unhealthy source, the false self. In order to walk in the authority and power of Jesus we need to establish o

FOUNDATIONS: PT 3 1 Corinthians 13 is not a chapter for wedding ceremonies, it is a foundational understanding of the nature of God. It is a description of who God is and what his baseline demeanour i

FOUNDATIONS: PT 2 The Holy Spirit Brings The Kingdom In Us (Brenda Drost) The Holy Spirit is not only given to us to live in us as a deposit guaranteeing our salvation, He also wants to bring the ki

FOUNDATIONS: PT 1 - The Holy Spirit And The Kingdom Of God The central message of Jesus and the apostles was the arrival of the kingdom of God. After his resurrection Luke tells us in Acts 1 that Jesu

James Pt 10: 5:12-20 In this last passage of James, the author shifts gears dramatically to talk about the power of prayer for healing and our need to walk in the light if we want to be able to acces

Before Jesus was resurrected from the dead on that first Easter Sunday, he was walking in his resurrection identity. Four days after one of his closest friends, Lazarus, had died Jesus went to visit h

James Pt 9: 4:13-5:11 (Jeff MacLeod) In this passage James has some direct and confrontational things to say about planning for the future, our ideas of control and what it means to release our lives

We are almost through James, but hes not letting off in intensity. In Pt 8 we cover James 4:1-13 and James continued dissection of the source of the conflicts and division going on within the first

In this part we examine James 3:13-18 with another searing pastoral challenge from James that has powerful application for us today as well. James continues to press in toward the source of our destru

This is a hard-hitting passage that not only examines the speech patterns that are so destructive but also the source. James is calling his listeners (and us) to not only focus on being disciplined wi