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To really understand the good news of the Kingdom, and to be able to explain to others what we believe about God and how He is re-creating our world, we have to first understand how He designed our world in the first place. In this message, we will consider creation, and look at how it answers important questions we as human beings typically ask; Who am I? Why am I here? Where do I come from?

Picture this: you have a good conversation with a friend who is not a Christian, and somehow an opportunity comes your way to share about your faith. How do you share the Gospel in 5 minutes? Many would be tempted to draw two hills with a chasm in between, man on one side, God on the other, and the cross in between. For many of us, the heart of the Gospel is about sin, guilt, forgiveness and faith. Yet, this is not the biblical understanding of the word 'gospel'. It's not the Gospel Jesus preached, nor the Gospel the apostles preached. It is a reduced version of the full Gospel of the Kingdom. In this opening message to a 16-part series, we are going to journey through the full Gospel, starting at Creation and ending at the Return, always connecting it to a simple diagram that you can explain in 5 minutes to a friend.

What's the difference between your spirit and your soul? What does it mean to be spiritually mature? These two questions will be answered in this message. Join us for this last part of the Healthy Habits series, understanding the three parts of our humanness; body, soul and spirit.

You are not a self, you are a soul. The self is not a sufficient life-center, but the soul is. Dallas Willard said: “If your soul is healthy, no external circumstance can destroy your life. If your soul is unhealthy, no external circumstance can redeem your life.” How can our soul truly be healthy? And what should we do to protect it?

In this series, we are not going to focus so much on the what of those practices, but try to dig deeper into Biblical values and truths that undergird our healthy habits. Why do we come to a new year with resolutions to eat healthy, exercise more, read more, grow in our relationship with God and things like that? Why should we aspire to live healthy anyway? Christians have always understood that a human being consists of a body, soul and spirit. Paul, in his closing remarks to the first letter to the Thessalonians mentions them explicitly together: may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. In this three-week series, we are going to reflect on each part of our humanness; body, soul and spirit, getting a Biblical view on that part of us, so that we can care for it well; with the right awareness and motivation. We will start off today with the body. This message aims to give a Biblical perspective on the human body that can help us to discern the lies of advertisement and the idolization of our world of health and beauty – and instead, give a Biblically-founded motivation and practical application of how we can incorporate caring for our bodies as part of our discipleship to Jesus.

Did Jesus come to bring peace to the earth, or to start a revolution? Was He a peace-maker or a trouble-maker? We usually talk about Christmas in soft and peaceful terms. But in this message, Koen will show how the Incarnation was in fact a declaration of war against the empire darkness, and how celebrating Christmas still holds that same power today.

Peace on earth? Yeah... not this Christmas. There are currently 32 armed conflicts in the world, and with all the anxiety and burnout we can't say that people really have a sense of internal peace either. In this message, we will walk through the three dimensions of Advent - remembering with thankfulness that Christ came as the Prince of Peace, looking forward to Christ's second coming and how He will restore peace to earth, and anticipating His coming into our lives today to refresh us with His peace.

In this message, we hear from Merel vd Ven from IJM (International Justice Mission) about loving your neighbour, being touched by God's compassion for people and the important work of justice and how we can be involved.

What is the church's relationship with Israel? And how should we, as the people of God's Kingdom position ourselves in a time when the ongoing conflict in Israel-Palestine is escalating once again? In this message, we're trying to give you a Biblical framework for looking at the current situation, to help you to look at it in a nuanced way, and understand what you are praying for when you pray for the 'peace of Jerusalem'.

Like Israel during the exile, taking on your priestly role empowers you to live as a stranger in a non-believing society. In this sermon we explore three aspects of this priestly attitude, so that you can find practical ways to worship and live differently in this world, while still not being of this world.

In this message series that we have called “In the world, not of the world”, we are going to discuss four different postures or roles that will help us to fulfil this purpose Jesus has for us in this world. Today, we are talking about our roles as exiles, connecting to Jeremiah's prophetic words in his letter to the exiles, and the work of Tim Keller on the topic of what a Christian's attitude needs to be towards the city.

In the recent past, we have often heard the term, “already-not yet”. What does ‘already-not yet’ mean for our hear and now? In today's sermon, I speak about what does it mean for us to engage with our present world in light of the already-not-yet kingdom reality. I believe that as a new creation, we relate to the world in at least three different ways, and these can be better understood by thinking of our posture concerning the world: We stand with the world, we stand against the world and we stand for the world. Tune in to understand how they help us navigate the perceived tension between this-world and already-not yet kingdom.