The Father we never knew
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Christ; The Dawn that death flees before.
In Christ you are over your death
What really happened to the human race through the resurrection of Jesus Christ? How is Jesus now the Last Adam? Why are all angels present at the resurrection sitting?
The Heart that Opens
You can’t make yourself believe. You can’t persuade you own heart. You can’t produce faith. It comes by the God-given revelation of His love: the gospel of His love (not yours).”
In Christ- The Life fully present
God is always present with us, but we are not always present with Him.
Finding the presence of God, in the presence of His people.
The new creation in Christ is a body. Finding the grace of God empowering divine relationships
The Light in the Darkness.
The Light in the Darkness. by Phelim Doherty
A New Heart
A New Heart by Phelim Doherty
The God who swallowed Death
The God who swallowed Death by Phelim Doherty
Opening the eyes of the heart.
Opening the eyes of the heart. by Phelim Doherty
Believing in his name
If the god you worship is not content, neither will you ever be.
Beginning in grace
Unless we begin with the Father qualifying us through Christ, we have no beginning at all!
The Fathered Life; a light in the darkness.
The light does not stand back from the darkness. The light shines IN the darkness.
Beholding Christ; the power to be whom God declares you to be.
The Gospel is not 'Behave' but 'Behold!' for to see how much has been given to you in Christ is to see what God sees. It is to see what God believes. It is to see the One faith, the only faith; the faith of God and to find that faith in you.
Awakening by the light of the Gospel to a New creation
What greater awakening can come to the Church, than for us to awaken again to the reality that the Cross was not a failure, that Jesus’ death and resurrection changed everything and that old things, like our life ruled by sin and death, have passed away and all things, like our lives before God have become new.
Heaven Couldn't Wait. The God who abides with us.
God is so big that unless God reveals Himself, we cannot know Him and unless He gives Himself to us, we cannot receive Him. Christmas is when we celebrate that He did both; He caused us to know Him by giving Himself to us, first by His Son and then by His Spirit.
A Life that transcends death: Living in the eternal present of God.
In heaven the Kingdom is not a future hope but a present reality. And so to be filled with the Spirit of God, is to find yourself living/being in that eternally present Kingdom. It is by men and women living in the Spirit, seeing by the Spirit, speaking by the Spirit, that His Kingdom comes on earth as it is in heaven.
Now it springs up, do you not perceive it?
In every generation of the Church, when God’s people start to see as God sees; the abundance of His presence with them, they rise to be proclaimers of His praise and trumpeters of His Kingdom.
The Life of Being with Him.
it was never the gospel; that God wanted us to live as if real life started sometime in the future, in a place called heaven and that this life was simply a waiting room until you discover whether you have done enough to get your name on the roll. He never wanted us to live a life becoming with Him, but a life being with Him.Eternal life is not getting to heaven one day. Eternal life is knowing the God who is with you today
Raised With Christ, from becoming to Being.
The spirit of the world can only say “Could be” The Spirit that comes from God says “IS”. To live filled with “the spirit of this world”, is to live trying to be a Christian. To live filled with the Spirit that comes from God, is to live being a child of God, for the Spirit persuades our spirits that we are the children of God. Session 1 of 3 messages on the subject "Raised with Christ" given in Inverness in June 2024
Married to a life raised from the dead
“You cannot thrive in your marriage if you keep going out at weekends acting as if you are single. What would you say to a friend who got married recently but has decided that every weekend he is still going to go out on the town with all his single mates and do everything they do? That is what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church, the New Creation. How can you reveal the new creation life, the married to God life to this generation, when every weekend you get together in church with people who speak to you as if you are single? “
Rivers Of Living Water
River City Worship from Pentecost Sunday. "I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters"
Delivered from death, to walk in the life of Christ.
A life-giving message contrasting the futility of self, with living from the life God breathes into us in Christ. "Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." John 12:24. This message was given in River City Church on Saturday May 28th 2024.
All that you see in the heavenlies, has already happened.
His words have such power, that by the time you hear them, everything He said is already accomplished.
Called by your married name. Letting it be, according to His Gospel
To preach the Gospel in the power of the Spirit is to find yourself, much to your own surprise, speaking to what is not, as if it is. Of all the voices that are speaking to you in this world, the voice of God is the only one that does not speak to you according to your natural state.
Since you have been raised with Christ.
Live reconciled. Live from the party, not from the field. Live from His acceptance, not for His acceptance. It is not your job to reconcile yourself to God. God has done that through the man Christ Jesus.
The Life called up in us: Christ.
Let His life do the work. Let His life be done unto you according to His Word to you. Let the power of the Gospel call up in you, His life.
Living from God. Growing from I into Us
All who want a Saviour, have a Saviour; Jesus Christ
Innocence Restored
“You cannot carry the weight of trying to save yourself from death. That burden will crush you and steal from you your innocence; the joy and wonder at just being alive. What you need is a Father, who gives you a life greater than death, and so lifts from you the burden of trying to save yourself."
In conversation with the Fields Brothers
A conversation with Jeff and Roger Fields on the beauty and power of the Gospel and our journey in understanding that when we dilute down the generosity of God, we take the metanoia out of the message.
The Power of the Gospel: The Joy of Good News.
Here is the reckless scandalous gospel in all its glory…. God thinks you are worthy of giving His life to.... so He did! That’s not advice. That’s news and news on such a scale as to awaken those dead to God as He truly is, that they may see the true knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ is God not leaving you to save yourself.
When you grow up in a world that doesn't believe in a Saviour, such a world can only teach you to be your own saviour.
The Father who loves His enemies.
If we don’t grow to know Him as the God who loves His enemies, we will never love ours.
Who Is The Father
Only when your heart and mine is persuaded that the Father has not left us to save ourselves, will our attempts to save ourselves through our own piety be put to rest
The God who never left us to save ourselves
The natural mind, apart from the Holy Spirit, does not have and cannot have a true image of the Father.
No other foundation can anyone lay.
If Christ and His work is not laid as the foundation of our new life, we will continue to put far too much weight on our own performance/obedience as the foundation for our lives. Of course my obedience to God’s direction is important, but what I want to show you this morning is that my obedience is not the foundation of my new life in Christ.
Awakening To Us, In The Land Of I
Right the way through the Bible, God’s voice calls life into being. But that being, is not being an individual, it is being with God.
The Absurdity Of The Gospel
Everything that religion says God demands from you, He has already supplied in Christ.
Brighter Than The Noonday Sun: Preaching Christ in a Land of Shadows.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ never leaves you in the shadow of your own performance.
The Prodigal Church Is Coming Home
In heaven, there is no one trying to become anyone, for all have found their being with God. The Kingdom of heaven is not the realm of becoming. It is the realm of being.
You Tell Me My Name. Made New In The Presence Of God
We have lost the wonder of the Gospel.
Raising The Church, from Becoming To Being.
10 minute excerpt from a talk given to the Ascension Ministries Council of the Apostolic Church UK on "Shifting from Church-centric to Christ-centric discipleship.
Raised At His Table. From Becoming to Being.
In the first Adam our life fell, from being to becoming. In the last Adam our life rose, from becoming to being. In Christ our being is in God.
Church, it's your turn to see.
We preach the riches of God’s mercy and grace and we will keep preaching that until we all are completely healed of grasping for life and see our lives rise, from becoming to being, for the mind of Christ is not a mind trying to become someone, but being someone.
You Can't Know Who You Are, Until You Know Whose You Are
The Gospel preached in the power of the Spirit does not to ask people to produce the Christian life, but calls and equips them to participate in the life of God.
Let Us The Gospel of participation, not production.
I have spent enough years believing what people believe about me. Now I want to believe what God believes about me. The Gospel is the proclamation of what God believes about you and me and every person we will ever meet and it is good news because The Gospel preached in the power of the Spirit, does not ask men to produce the Christian life, but invites and equips them, to participate in the life already given; Christ.
The Gospel that calls forth the new creation: Let It Be!
The reason so many in the nations remain in darkness is that so many in the church live as light salesmen. We preach a gospel that makes promises to people of light, if only they will pay a price. But there is no power in preaching a gospel that points people to their behaviour as their hope of light. There is no power in a gospel that points people to themselves! There is no power of the Spirit in such a man-centred gospel to bring people out of darkness because we have not been given God’s Spirit that we would be promisers of the light, but that we would be the light.
Worship Sun 15 May 2022
Singing the scriptures in River City this morning. John 15:13 "Greater love has no man than this, than he lay down his life for his friends.' and 1John 4:19 "We love Him because He first loved us." Thank you Nicola and Joshua.
Married To Him Who Was Raised From The Dead
God does not regard salvation as anything less than a living relationship with Him. Grace is not a gift that God gives, so that you can continue living by yourself, because Grace is not a thing, He is a person. Yes grace is a gift, but it is not a thing that you receive like a gift left on your doorstep. Such a gift that is a thing can be a blessing to you, but it cannot bring you into a living relationship. You can get a new car left at your door, that someone else has paid for and so is freely given to you, but that is not a true picture of grace because you can’t have a living relationship with a car.
Do Not Say Four More Months. Lift Up Your Eyes
The gospel is not the news of what might be, if you. It is the news of what is, because He, Christ! • The Gospel is not the proclamation of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that people may partake of that knowledge and then do something about the evil in their lives. • The Gospel is the proclamation of a dream fulfilled, a tree of life, that God has done what you could never do, no matter how much you know about good and evil!
The Light Now Dawning On The Church
The gospel is not the promise of the dawn, it is the dawn rising on the darkness. It is not the promise of glory that dispels the darkness, it is the present glory in us, that dispels the present darkness in the world and that is why right now, when the world has never seemed such a dark place, has never been so blinded and deafened by man-made light and sound, this is not the hour for the Church to be captivated by earthly events, but to be setting her eyes above, where her real life is (Col.3:1-4) for from there, the heavenly realm, the realm of the Spirit, today, is being trumpeted the eternal call of the Spirit to the bride across the world "Arise, shine, for your light has come!"