Starting with God

Starting with God 10 - Holiness

Chris continues his series in Starting With God by this week looking at God’s holiness. There are some passages in the Bible that can be very difficult to understand, some that we may even choose to ignore or turn a blind eye to. But we should not be turning away from the things that we “don’t like”. God defines holiness, even if we don’t understand why things happen, we need to trust that His plan is perfect and put our hope in Jesus who intimately reveals God’s character to us, so we can trust Him. Buy the book here...https://amzn.eu/d/07uOKXNG [https://amzn.eu/d/07uOKXNG]

Starting with God 9 - Back to Creation

How much can we learn about God from Creation alone? Paul says in his letter to the Romans that by admiring God’s handiwork in nature His eternal power and divine nature are revealed to us, but only when we converse and meet with the God revealed in Jesus do we begin to understand His true nature. Chris speaks on how we should move from simply admiring the world that God has created to being in true relationship with Him, only then will He be fully revealed to us... Watch the full video here...https://youtu.be/DQizW3LDF1M?si=kIrxg7z_XDgsLsWH [https://youtu.be/DQizW3LDF1M?si=kIrxg7z_XDgsLsWH] Why not buy Chris's book Starting with God - An invitation to Encounter God. https://amzn.eu/d/08B7ztdf [https://amzn.eu/d/08B7ztdf]

Starting with God 8 - The Cross

In first century Judea a cross was not generally something talked about in polite conversation, let alone boasted about. Yet through Jesus' victory Paul says that he (and by extension we) can boast in the achievement of the cross. As we continue our starting with God series Chris examines Jesus' victory, the turning of a symbol of terror and oppression into a symbol of hope and how we can still see God's glory through the cross.

Starting with God 7 - Exile

When we make a decision, conscious or unconscious, to not follow God wholeheartedly we can be sent into exile from Him. Not a physical exile like those experienced in the Old Testament but a spiritual exile where it feels like our connection with God is frayed or even totally broken. In the next in our series of Starting With God Chris looks at the symptoms of that spiritual exile and reminds us that the door to God is never closed: we are always given the opportunity to return.

Starting with God 6 - Dead Ends

The writer of Ecclesiastes examines the whole of existence in his book and comes to the conclusion that “everything is meaningless”. But with one proviso: “everything is meaningless” without God. Chris looks at the dead ends that can occur in our lives if we try to exist without God directing us and how He gently but firmly brings us back to the path to life if we allow Him to.