By Mars Hill Blog in Sermons, Religion & Spirituality | 4 days ago
I used to say a good stream can’t produce bad water, or a good tree cannot produce bad fruit. Yet it depends on what we mean by fruit or good stream. You see a good stream can produce grit and stone that breaks, moulds and shapes the river banks to produce its beauty and splendour. The same with fruit - is bad fruit more than what we call bad things like pain and suffering? Is bad fruit just selfish, ungodly character. In contrast can pain, suffering, even evil create something beautiful and can God use all these things for his Glory and our good? Can a good stream produce rocks and boulders to shape it into something beautiful. Can a good tree be pruned and chopped to produce good fruit? Is suffering needed for sanctification? Is there purpose in pain?...
By Mars Hill Blog in Sermons, Religion & Spirituality | 12th August 2019
Dipo speaks to us this week about Renewing the Mind. Please listen in on this super important topic....
By Mars Hill Blog in Sermons, Religion & Spirituality | 29th July 2019
So what are angels? Are they real or a work of fiction? Are they fat babies sitting on clouds playing harps, or are they lean mean fighting machines? What about fairies, pixies and the like? Is there any truth in the sighting people have had of glowing figures, men the size of buildings? Today we are going to look at angels and the spiritual realm - fairy tale or fact? The study of angels is called angelology and interestingly there isn’t a huge amount of Christian literature out there on this. There is quite a lot on demons and spiritual warfare, but not so much on angels, God heavenly army, so today we are going to be looking at this subject from a biblical view point and then see what our response should be....
By Mars Hill Blog in Sermons, Religion & Spirituality | 23rd July 2019
So what happens when we die? Do we become dis-embodied souls flying around the world looking for people to creep up on in the night, or get caught on ghost camera’s? Do we all just fall asleep until Jesus comes again, and if he comes again, when and how? Do we go to hell and burn or to heaven and be at peace? Do we just cease to exist? There are so many questions, thoughts and theories around this subject, yet the bible has lots to say.
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