Turkey and Syria Earthquake – Elim Response
Will you help us deploy an Emergency Field Hospital into the earthquake region, including two operating rooms and 75 staff, to address the immediate medical needs of survivors?
Will you help us deploy an Emergency Field Hospital into the earthquake region, including two operating rooms and 75 staff, to address the immediate medical needs of survivors?
Why did Paul send Onesimus back? Was he encouraging slavery?
How do we read the New Testament on these issues when we hold to different views of what is right?
Here are details of some of the things that are happening over the next few weeks, as well as some important dates for later in 2023…
Let’s not fool ourselves: forgiveness always costs something. Always did, always will.
Relationships will occasionally rupture. Forgiveness is the way they can be repaired.
How do we do this?
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.
This church lived at a time when everyone knew their place. Rank mattered and brought privileges. If you were at the top of the pile you could order people around.
Paul modelled a different way. He chose to appeal rather than to order.
He demonstrated how we subvert the natural hierarchies.
As we learn one another’s names and enter one another’s stories, we are given the opportunity to grow more than we might ever have imagined…
Here are details of some of the things that are happening over the next few weeks, as well as some important dates for later in 2023…
The angels met shepherds and told them that peace had come to earth.
Foreign wise men made an epic journey to see the new king.
The poorest and the richest knew that things needed to change.
It’s our joy to be able to say: change can happen. There is something new to be experienced.
Now that’s good news at Christmas time.
The world can seem quite dark but there is a light that gives us hope, and that can shine the way home for others.
Christmas reminds us that God became like us. He got tired, hungry, thirsty, and could be injured.
We know how all that feels. But we are waiting for the day when this is a memory, on the day we step into eternity.
So what will it be like when we die? Is it worth waiting for?