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The Narrow Path | Part 1 | Intro

13 October 2024

This message is an intro message to a 10-part series on the Sermon on the Mount. This one sermon from Jesus has been called: Jesus great Manifesto, a description of a life under the rule of God, a vision for individual and communal flourishing, the best TED-talk ever and many other things.

Jesus intention was for His followers to live these words. But how can we? It is so radical, so counter-cultural, and perhaps unattainable?

In this message, Koen is giving you a framework for approaching the Sermon on the Mount, which will serve us as a guide for the coming weeks as we work through its themes.

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The Presence of God

29 September 2024

The pattern of the presence of God The presence of God in the OT The presence of God in this time

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Ephesians | Chapter 6 | Prepare for Battle

22 September 2024

There is a war going on all around us, and we are not civilians, but soldiers. Paul describes the average Christian as a Roman soldier with a full armour always ready for combat. What is this fight about? Who is our enemy? And how should we prepare for battle?

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Ephesians | Chapter 5 | Walk as Children of the Light

15 September 2024

In Ephesians 5, Paul encourages us to confidently and boldly live life differently from the world around us. Paul specifically highlights three areas where he is inviting Christians to stand out to the world, as children of the light, to be radically different; sex, language and our relationship to possessions. But instead of pointing us to bad behaviour to avoid, Paul is helping us to focus on the life God has for us and points us to three counter practices of the Way of Jesus.

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Ephesians | Chapter 3 | Let THAT sink in

01 September 2024

There is something that needs to ‘sink in’ to the heart of every Christian.
If this doesn’t happen – we continue to feel powerless to the struggles we face.
If this doesn’t happen – we continue to feel shame over what we’ve done
If this doesn’t happen – we continue to feel guilt over that habits we just can’t shake.
If this doesn’t happen – we will always continue to feel unworthy, unloved and unwanted in the family of God.

What needs to sink in is simply that what the Bible says about us is actually true.

How God sees us – needs to become how we see ourselves.
What is theologically true about us, needs to become our experienced reality.
What we know needs to make that 10-inch drop from the head to the heart.

When this sinks in, a whole new world is in front of us.
If that never really sinks in, we will get stuck.

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Ephesians | Chapter 2 | Grace and the Renewed People of God

25 August 2024

In the letter to the Ephesians, the apostle Paul is working out the implications of grace. He wants us to understand what grace means and how we can live in response to to grace.

In today’s message, we will talk about how grace reforms us to live as the renewed people of God. And this works out on two levels; the individual level and at a communal level of the church.

This message will have one theme, but be in two parts. We are first going to work out how grace reforms you and me to live as the new humanity. And then, we will look at how that same grace reforms us at a communal level into the renewed people of God.

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Ephesians | Chapter 1 | The Gift Of Grace

18 August 2024

In the letter to the Ephesians, one of Paul’s purposes is to help the readers understand the huge implications of grace. You are saved by grace, not by works, but then, what are you saved for? In this first message, we are unpacking two big words: election and inheritance, and see how they relate to the purpose of our salvation.

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Called to Come & Called to Go

21 July 2024

In this message, we see in the stories of the prodigal son and the Ethiopian eunuch, God’s two-fold calling: to come to Him first because He is our loving Father, then to go out and preach Jesus as Philip did.

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