HAVENS FOR ALL

God is itching to get His hands dirty in rebuilding His world of man and nature. It is to rebuild a garden and a shelter, a haven where He can live amongst His people and walk with them again.

He calls man to this high purpose. The only hands He has are ours. We must give them to make havens for others who are homeless and damaged.

GOD'S RELENTLESS CARE

When the Scripture reassures us that God cares for us, it is most of all in the sense of achieving His loving purposes for us of walking without blame and in true holiness. For that we may always pray.

SELF-RETREAT

The smaller we become, the more we make room for God to will and work within us. The greater He becomes, the more He takes the brunt of attacks upon us as we hide in Him.

TRUE LIFE

Eternal life is learning the art of living and dying in the presence of God.

A WEIGHTY CALLING

At every moment of our lives we are sent to make the fullness of the Godhead touchable, knowable and visible to those in our vicinity. After all, our heavenly Father, His dearly-loved Son and the Holy Spirit, the only true God, has taken up residence in us as Jesus made clear the last evening He spent with His devoted pupils. They would desert Him but He would never desert them.

We are a travelling sanctuary maintained and preserved moment by moment by the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe, rooted in His without-beginning-and-ending, never-failing love for us.

Ephesians 3 vs 14 to 21.

THE WINDOWS OF OUR LIVES

We may be able to clean the outside, but only God can clean the inside. This He does by gently making us aware of the smudges which impede the incoming light of His truth and the reflection of His life through ours. As we recognise them we turn from those ways that grieve Him. He loves us the more for doing so, not the less. There is no place for feelings of guilt as there is no place for condemnation, when we are His children. Our open confession and expression of gratitude for His salvation is all He asks.

CHRISTIAN MINDFULNESS

True discipleship is learning to love God and His life-giving ways of salvation, and to swiftly follow in them, so basking in His delighted approval. This spurs us on to yet more loving obedience and intimacy of union with Him, recognising His everlasting loving-kindness reaching out towards us moment by moment, transforming those moments into joy unspeakable.

This, too, is the commission we have from Him, to call others to this high vocation.

Baptism is the sign of our acceptance of, and initiation into, this vocation. In it we declare allegiance to the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In fellowship with other family members the breaking of bread and drinking of wine in memory of the sacrifice of Jesus, the God of our salvation, nourishes His life in us, individually and as a body of followers of like assurance, stirring up love for Him and one another as He taught.

A careful reading of the records of the good news of God's redemption in His Son will make this plain.