Patience is part of a collective demonstration of the image of God we were designed to bear. And patience is an invitation to human flourishing.
Read MoreJoy is connected to the way we see the world. Joy is not just about having positive experiences, its fundamentally related to the way we perceive the events that are happening around us, and to us, and in us? Joy is not only about whether things are good or not in themselves, it is about how we perceive them.
Read MoreThe greater hidden meaning of this word as a verb is understood as.. 'the response we give when we understand what it means to surrender our time and space to people and beings that enter our world’.
Read MoreIn our wait can we abandon everything that we think, feel and believe to God?
Read MoreWhere once I expected God to do all of the moving on my behalf, now I am aware of God’s invitation into the dance where together we can change the world, I just let God do the leading.
Read MorePrayer levels the playing field, it puts everything in perspective, alleviating the pressure and anxiety from our finite minds, a panacea for the current difficulty. It is a new way of seeing, a faith filled hopefulness that elevates our consciousness. Our life as a prayer is an emerging kingdom poetic that Jesus came to reestablish and reaffirm as his primary rationale for why we exist as spiritual beings.
Read MoreWe get back up again. And again. And again. And it is our capacity for hope that compels this resilience. Despite the frequent disappointments of everyday life, the human spirit has a remarkable ability to be pushed forward by hope. Yet there can come a time when this resilience is worn down.
Read MoreSome creative expression from members of our community, Petra and Amber, on the advent of our 18th birthday.
Read MoreThis coming weekend is an opportunity to celebrate so come and join us on Sunday as we propose a toast to long life and good fortune. The future of our boutique faith family is reliant on the innovative and inventive benefaction of its people.
Read MoreAlthough in one sense 18 is just another number, in another way it stands as a symbol of something. Of growing up. Of moving forward. Another step in our becoming. As a community, what emerges among us, the ‘Edge’ that is greater than the sum of its parts, will be filled with the ‘inspired becomings’ that are happening within each of us.We are being called forward, called out, called into something.
Resonance. Emergence. Inspiration.
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Just like the thousands of smells our olfactory sense engages with everyday, the life of Jesus continues to speak to us daily in rich, challenging, encouraging and life giving ways. Like a familiar scent however, the prophetic power of God’s story can get overly familiar to us.
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