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This letter gives us another secret to growth and change to those of us who are feeling a little bit complacent. Maybe we feel a little more bored than blessed when we connect with church … Perhaps we feel a lot more attached to this world than we’d like - (who doesn’t struggle with that?) and looking us straight in the eye Jesus says - “I want you to see your need as you never have before. Then I’d be able to meet your need as I never have before.” John writes this way to the church in Laodicea - “To the angel of the church of Laodicea write, ‘These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation. I know your deeds that you’re neither cold nor hot … I wish that you were one or the other … But you don’t realise you’re wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you get from me gold refined in the fire so you can become rich and white clothes to wear so you can cover your shameful nakedness salve to put on your eyes so you can see.” (Revelation 3:14 ff) Not easy words from Jesus but they end with his remarkable promise - “Look! I am standing at the door and I'm constantly knocking. If anyone opens the door I will come in and I’ll fellowship with him; I’ll relate to him, I’ll dine with him and he’ll fellowship with me.” (Revelation 3:20 – Message)
Episodes
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
Sunday Jan 03, 2021
It’s 2021! It’s a new year, it’s a new start, it’s a new beginning.
2020 proved to be a crazy year, it has been absolutely life changing for so many people. People have died, people have lost their jobs. Businesses have shut down.
But Jesus remains the same yesterday, today and forever. As we start this year, I encourage all of us to hold fast to the promises of God and to let go and let God.
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
If you were asked what word or words have been uppermost in your mind this year how would you respond?
Covid-19? Financial stress? Physical stress? Emotional stress?
What is the word or words that best express 2020?
I want to suggest to you that the word is “SHAKEN”.
This week starting with Hebrews 12 v25-29 & Haggai 2 v6&7 we will look at what, who & why things have been & are still being shaken at the end of 2020 and our Christian response.
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
Sunday Dec 27, 2020
The message of the Nativity of Jesus has never been one of complete joy. The story, like our own existence, has strains of darkness and of light. It is into this human reality that God becomes incarnate.
Friday Dec 25, 2020
Friday Dec 25, 2020
Where is your hope this Christmas?
This year has proven to be a difficult time considering the effects of a global pandemic.
Everybody hopes for things at Christmas time. I know I’m hoping for a gift of some sort this year. But more than getting presents, Christmas is about the hope we find in Jesus.
As the Gospel of John tells us, the word became flesh - God came to earth in the person of Jesus Christ. He came to save us, and restore our relationship with God. We can put our hope and trust in Jesus.
Join us this Christmas as we celebrate hope in this world.
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Sunday Dec 13, 2020
Join us this Sunday as Bob Mendelsohn from Jews for Jesus shares on – Jesus Light of the World.
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
Join us on Sunday 6th December at 10am as CMP Children’s Church present: Silent Night.
"Silent Night" (German: "Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht") is a popular Christmas carol, composed in 1818 by Franz Xaver Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in the small town of Oberndorf bei Salzburg, Austria. It has since been translated into 300 languages and dialects and was declared an intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO in 2011.
All welcome!
Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
“My days just come and go and at the end of the day; I do not have any hope”.
How is it possible that I am so depressed, filled with anxiety, hopelessness and despair if I claim to be a Christian?
On a scale of 1 – 10 how happy are you? Is happiness even possible?
In the book of Job, he answers the basic questions of life i.e., “Why do the righteous suffer if God is loving and all powerful”?
God is Lord: in heaven, and on earth, and under the earth. He is omniscient, omnipotent, and good. As such, His ways are sometimes incomprehensible to men, but He can always be trusted.
Being a Christian does not mean there will not be suffering in our lives, but there is hope in Christ Jesus.
Heb. 4:15. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin.
Christ is the believer’s Life, Redeemer, Mediator, and Advocate.
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
Over the last few weeks we’ve been talking about the power of God’s Word - alive + active - to help us live in victory over temptation and sin, so that we can each become all that God made us to be.
Amen + Hallelujah!
But … how does that actually happen? We all have our Achilles heel of sin, our entrenched behaviour, that one bad habit that try as we might, seems impossible to break.
Well this week ... this week is when the rubber hits the road. This week is when we lay hold if the truth and the power to break that one bad habit!
Monday Nov 16, 2020
Monday Nov 16, 2020
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. And yet that’s how many a Christ-follower lives their life.
Believe that Jesus is the Son of God? Tick!
Believe that He died to pay for my sin? Tick!
Believe that He rose again? Tick!
But that’s where it begins and ends.
Walking in that newness of life that the Bible promises (Rom 6:4)? Not so much!!
This week at Church in the Marketplace we’re going to dive deeper into God’s Word, specifically Hebrews 4:12, to discover the power to change; to lay hold of the power to change; to make that power our own. Because the Word of God is alive + active, amen?
Don’t miss out!
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
Sunday Nov 08, 2020
For many a Christ follower life seems to be falling short - well short - of all that Jesus promised. Where He promised an abundant life, things seem, well, flat. Something’s missing.
This week we’re kicking off a 3-part series called “Alive+Active” … because that’s what God has planned for us. And we begin in a surprising place … we begin by talking about the rest, the peace that God promises His people.