By Mars Hill Blog in Sermons, Religion & Spirituality | 8 hours ago
As we now close this letter to the Corinthian church, Paul answers one final question and that is the collection for the saints in Jerusalem and what they are supposed to do with finances. He then covers how various people are using their gifts generously for the good of the church, and then finishes by showing how we are to love each other by the way we great and treat each other. This section summarises the whole letter and that is - in and of ourselves we cannot achieve what God is asking of us - the bar is too high. We can only live this life through the Holy Spirit at work in us - less of us and more of him as he gives us the power and ability to look like Jesus....
By Mars Hill Blog in Sermons, Religion & Spirituality | 6 days ago
If you knew today was your last day on this earth - what would you do? Who would you spend time with? How would you live it? We are told to live for today, you only have one life so live it? So what does that mean? How should we live this one life, should we live for today and forget tomorrow? We are encouraged to live for now and if we are to make plans it is for the next 5-10 years. Plan your education, your career, your holidays. The here and now becomes what we focus on, but what about after this life? What about not the temporal, but the eternal? What about when we die? How have you lived and are you ready to face what is on the other side? Paul says this in verse (v19), if this is the only life we have then we are to be pitied. He saw something more after the grave, something that was bigger, greater, more important. He encouraged us to live as though eternity is in our grasp. He encouraged us to beat our bodies in to submission, flee from sin, pursue Jesus, to make Jesus our own. He encouraged us that to live is Christ, our life should be Jesus, but to die is gain. He encourages us today, not to just live for today, not to just plan for the next 5-10 years, but to live and plan for eternity....
By Mars Hill Blog in Sermons, General Topics | 08th March 2019
Life can often feel like a roller coaster with its ups and downs. Sometimes it can feel like it just one big uphill battle. But should it really be like this? Is there a way in which we can live where no matter what life throws we still have peace, and life is still being lived to the full? On Sunday we looked at a message that God gave Jeremiah as we encourage each other to put down deep roots into God, so that we are continuously living in his fullness and provision.
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By Mars Hill Blog in Sermons, Religion & Spirituality | 06th March 2019
The gospel is under attack in our churches today, not necessarily from outside the church, but from within. The traditions that people have fought and died for are being lost and people are preferring a more open, inclusive less threatening gospel. But when ever did Jesus say the gospel was inclusive and non threatening. He said narrow and long is the way to eternal life. He said if you want to save your life you need to loose it. He said unless you pick up your cross and die you cant be a disciple. The gospel is a message of hope, of life, of healing of freedom, but it comes at the cost of self. We must never water down or minimise the gospel. Especially when it cost Jesus everything. It cost him becoming human, it cost him taking on the weight of every sin, it cost him his life. We must never water it down, but we must live and preach the gospel....
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