Prayer shapes our character and in times of crisis, we reveal who we really are. As Jesus hung in agony on a Roman cross, unjustly brutalised, facing certain death, his prayers revealed who he was and defied the expectations of everyone.
How might our prayer life shape us to do the same?
In the garden of Gethsemane, Jesus enacted a part of ‘The Lord’s Prayer’, ‘Your will be done’, and he did it alone.
How can we learn to pray, trusting in God, when things are not as we would hope and we feel we are facing them alone?
In John 17, Jesus prays for his disciples to be protected from the evil one, to be full of joy, to be sanctified and to be unified.
Could he still be praying those things for us now and how might we part of the answer?
John 17 is the most revealing of all prayers: it’s a window into the intimacy shared between Jesus and his Father before the creation of the world…
Faith in Jesus means nothing if you don’t love Jesus’ friends.
And love means nothing if it isn’t accompanied by action.
It’s what we do, not what we say.
Most of us suffer from Imposter Syndrome, the whisper that says we’re not good enough. And the voice isn’t telling lies. We mess up too often.
But that’s not the final truth…
If you’ve got questions about faith please do come along, whether you’re just exploring Christianity or you’re a Christian who wants a safe place to ask questions, we’d love to have you join us for our next Alpha!
Religious people have become experts at making spiritual practises complicated. They get twisted by our motives as well as the lengths we go to make ourselves look better than we are.
What if we could just keep it simple? More normal? What would be gained?
Israel knew that murder was wrong – but Jesus puts his finger on the contempt we can feel for one another when they don’t match up to our expectations.
Think of the outrage on social media at times.
He warns us of the consequences of those reactions, urges us to put things right with one another and uses an everyday example (making a last minute court settlement) to demonstrate how important our relationships are.
We’re open! Here’s details of what’s already happening at The Vine Community Hub, what we’ve got planned and how you can get involved…
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