When disasters strike, humans help their neighbours. Just for a moment they share their stuff, open their homes & lend a hand to help out. Given that people are normally pretty selfish, where do moments like that come from? They’re a glimpse of what God made us for. The God at the centre of the universe is a giving, serving God.
We’re taking 3 weeks to think about how we serve the God who serves us.
Israel continues to spiral down, with God's people becoming more like the nations around them instead of living holy lives. Are we going to give in to the same temptations…
Gideon's son Abimelek positions himself for the throne by murdering his 70 brothers. But we see that God is both powerful and good - able to work through evil to…
Does God value strength like our world values strength? God saves through weakness so the glory goes to Him, & so the world’s values are torn down.
God saved us to serve his church & gave us gifts to do it with, so gladly serve Jesus & others at Salt Church with your time, energy & money.
We’ve been saved to worship / serve God in all of life, so serve him in our many & different spheres of your life.
Our God serves us to save us from selfishness, so as we serve we’re being truly human & like God.
Thomas is a 'seeing is believing' guy, and when he sees Jesus he believes not only that Jesus is alive but that he is life - the Christ & Son…
Lots of things make Christians & non-Christians feel like it's reasonable to hold God/Jesus at arm’s length. In fact it’s only reasonable to embrace Jesus because He is your King…