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Rob continued our new series Empowered Just Like Us - Lessons from Elijah. Walking in the Spirit starts with private faithfulness in hidden places where no one is watching. Step by step obedience matters, and it starts with trusting & obeying God in the hidden places.

Bec kicked off our new series on Empowered Just Like Us - Lessons from Elijah. Elijah was a human being even as we are. God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things. She introduced the details of Elijah’s life, while reminding us that Elijah was a human being just like us - so we don’t put him up on a pedestal, but can learn from his life - both the powerful and the powerless parts.

We had the pleasure of hearing from Gigi from IJM and the incredible work they do!

Jordan Seng, our guest speaker, started with asking us "what makes it possible?" and explored Faith = Try, through looking at Mark 5: 25-33.

Matt Gelding shared on Empowered by the Spirit to Do what Jesus did as we wrapped up looking at what it means to walk in the Spirit.

Bonnie shared on Empowered by the Spirit to become like Jesus as we took a few weeks to look at what it means to walk in the Spirit.

Rob shared on Empowered by the Spirit to be with Jesus as we took a few weeks to look at what it means to walk in the Spirit.

Kym wrapped up our series in Galatians - Heirs of the Gospel, looking at "Bear, Sow, Do Good", from Galatians 6:1-10, 14-15. Paul ends not with doctrine but with practice: bear one another's burdens, restore gently, sow to the Spirit, do good to all people. The final word of the series is not do more but don't give up. The harvest is not immediate — the gap between sowing and reaping is where most people quit. The closing frame is new creation (6:15): every act of burden-bearing and doing good is a sign of the new age breaking into the present one. That is the dignity of ordinary faithfulness.

Bec continued our series in Galatians - Heirs of the Gospel, looking at "Walk, Don't Manufacture", from Galatians 5:16-26. The how question. The answer is not a method or discipline programme but a person: the Spirit. The works of the flesh are produced — what the self generates when it is running things. The fruit of the Spirit is grown — what the Spirit produces in a life that stays yielded. This week addresses those who feel caught between old patterns and new direction, and names what keeping in step with the Spirit actually looks like day to day.

Rob continued our series in Galatians - Heirs of the Gospel, looking at "Free, but free for what?". Freedom for Paul is not the absence of obligation but the absence of the wrong obligations. The moment he announces freedom, he points it in a direction: love your neighbour. This names what it actually feels like to be free from religious performance, then turns that freedom outward.

Bonnie continued our series in Galatians - Heirs of the Gospel, looking at "You are not who you were". Before Paul tells anyone what to do, he tells them who they are. It reveals what it means to have an identity given rather than earned: heirs, not slaves. The evidence is the Spirit already within, already addressing God as Father. We are not working toward this identity — we are living from it, or failing to.

Bec continued our series in Galatians - Heirs of the Gospel, looking at "This was always the plan". Paul is exasperated: the Galatians received the Spirit by faith and are now trying to complete by effort what began in grace. He goes back to Abraham to show that the inclusion of all people was never plan B — it was the original promise. Galatians 3:28 then lands its full weight: the categories that determined worth and belonging in the ancient world are not modified in Christ, they are superseded. The effort question and the belonging question are the same question.

Luke continued our series in Galatians - Heirs of the Gospel, looking at "The moment the Gospel gets practical". Peter at Antioch. He was eating with Gentile believers — crossing one of the ancient world's sharpest ethnic divides — and withdrew when people arrived whose opinion he valued more than the truth he was living. Paul confronts him publicly because this is not personal failure; it is a broken table - the shared table of Jew and Gentile was the gospel made visible, and Peter's withdrawal broke it. Galatians 2:20 lands as the way back: the self that needed approval has been crucified.

Adam continued our series in Galatians - Heirs of the Gospel, looking at "Where did you get that?". Paul's gospel came by encounter/revelation, not inheritance or human tradition. God interrupted a life completely sure of itself and Paul's response was to fall down and ask what to do next. Has your faith has been personally encountered or merely inherited? We don't need to try to maintain a spiritual experience rather, continue to receive.

Kym kicked off our new series Heirs of the Gospel, looking at the book of Galatians - "There is No Other Gospel." Paul opens without pleasantries because the emergency is real. The Galatians have encountered God, received the Spirit, and are turning back to something safer and emptier. What have we added to grace today — performance, approval, moralism. The Gospel is complete. It is not a starting point to build on but the whole structure.