Ephesians 4:17–5:2 What should the Christian walk look like? How does your faith make a difference to your every day life, and how the life of your church? We must ‘put off’ our old way and ‘put on’ our new self
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The Love of God is so much better than anything this world has to offer. Feeling the reality of this helps our longings, and entire lives, to be transformed.
In this dream, the man seeks intimacy with his bride, but she delays. By the time she readies herself, he has departed, and she runs through the streets to find him. They are then reunited.
Love in a fallen world leads us to the arms of God
The woman and her beloved consummate their relationship.
The beauty and freedom of God’s design for sex shows us the wonder of the gospel and Christs love for us.
The woman is sought by her beloved with cries to come away with him, but ‘do not awaken!’
The woman dreams that she must go about the city to find her beloved. We see the power and pain of love and sex, and why we need pointing to God and the final marriage.
God’s design for sex, relationships, and marriage combats the ways in which the world says we are lacking
3 John Loving Christ should lead to a desire to share with others our joyful relationship with him, but also to support and send those who are called to do it cross-culturally. Chris Howles, our speaker, is one of the Barge’s mission partners, serving in Uganda.
John 3:16 If you were watching a performance of the ballet Swan Lake for the first time, and you didn’t have any plot synopsis, you’d be struggling to figure out what was going on. And so with the crucifixion of Jesus. But Jesus himself gives us his interpretation in what is one of the most famous verses in the Bible.
Genesis 4:1-24 “It is the best-known story in the world, because it is everybody’s story. It is the symbol story of the human soul. The story of mankind”. So claims one of the characters in John Steinbeck’s epic novel ‘East of Eden’ about the biblical account of Cain and Abel. It holds up a mirror to ourselves and the world in which we now live.
Genesis 4:1-24 “It is the best-known story in the world, because it is everybody’s story. It is the symbol story of the human soul. The story of mankind”. So claims one of the characters in John Steinbeck’s epic novel ‘East of Eden’ about the biblical account of Cain and Abel. It holds up a mirror to ourselves and the world in which we now live.