Tag: Ricky Stephen

James: building a life of integrity | Part 5: Reintegrate Your Faith

James calls us to live an integrated faith, one where belief and action line up. The opposite is both dead and deadly.

James: building a life of integrity | Part 2: When You Want to Quit, Keep Growing

James teaches us to avoid the pitfalls of turning to money and blaming God when things get tough. Instead, we are called to persevere, trusting…

Filled Full (Easter 2025) | Good Friday: Filled Full of the Worst of Us

Matthew's passion narrative and the prophecy of Isaiah frame Jesus' death as accepting a cup filled with the worst of us and the worst in…

Our Father: The Necessity and Wonder of Prayer | Part 8: Deliver Us From Evil

Prayer is turning to our Saviour to deliver us from the evil within ourselves, the troubles of the world, and the wiles of the evil…

Our Father: The Necessity and Wonder of Prayer | Part 6: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

By teaching us to pray "give us this day our daily bread", Jesus is teaching us that prayer is asking for what we need every…

Our Father: The Necessity and Wonder of Prayer | Part 4: Your Kingdom Come

By teaching us to pray 'your kingdom come,' Jesus is showing us that prayer is a powerful place we participate in and, in which, we…

Home: Our Place In God’s Family | Part 2: And They Gathered Together…

Jesus has given us to each other. It is his preferred method for our growth that we grow through deep relationships with one another. If…

Just One Thing? | Luke 10:38-42

Modern life is consumed by anxiety about many things. Jesus tells us few are necessary, indeed only one. What is that one thing? How will…

What Child Is This? | Part 1: Mary: Expecting God | Matthew 1:1-19

Expectations often breed disappointments, even in faith. This week, we will learn from Mary about letting the story of God recorded in the Scriptures shape…

The Heart of God | Part 9: God's Justice and Sabbath Rest | Deuteronomy 5:12-15

The Heart of God | Part 6: God's Justice and Holistic Flourishing | Leviticus

The Heart of God | Part 4: God's Justice and Human Freedom | Exodus 15:3-6; John 8:31-34

The Heart of God | Part 2: The Dignity and Responsibility of Being Human | Genesis 1:26-27

The Parables of Jesus: Portraits of a Kingdom | Part 3: The Weeds and the Wheat: Matthew 13:24-43

ephesians: Living In Sync with Reality | Part 16: Stand! (Part 2)

ephesians: Living In Sync with Reality | Part 14: Spirit-filled Family and Work

ephesians: Living In Sync with Reality | Part 10: Tears of the Spirit

ephesians: Living In Sync with Reality | Part 7: Rooted In Love

Easter Sunday 2024 | It Is Finished

ephesians: Living In Sync with Reality | Part 1: Living In Sync with Reality

SHAPE: Your Gifts for God's Good Purposes | Part 6: Experience

SHAPE: Your Gifts for God's Good Purposes | Part 5: Personality

SHAPE: Your Gifts for God's Good Purposes | Part 3: Put Your Heart Back In It

SHAPE: Your Gifts for God's Good Purposes | Part 2: Spiritual Gifts

Come and See: Encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John | Part 12: Do You Love Me?

Come and See: Encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John | Part 6: The Low Road of Love

Come and See: Encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John | Part 4: The Samaritan Woman and the Wisdom of Outsiders

Come and See: Encounters with Jesus in the Gospel of John | Part 3: Nicodemus the Know-it-all

Travelling Light | Part 11: Be a Person | Genesis 11:1-9

Travelling Light | Part 5: Anger: A Primary Enemy to Kingdom Goodness

Travelling Light | Part 3: Unburdened of Worldly Grief | 2 Corinthians 7: 9-13

Exodus: What We Mean When We Say God | Part 17: What We Mean When We Say God [Reprise]

Exodus: What We Mean When We Say God | Part 14: Make It Pretty, Not Just Useful

Exodus: What We Mean When We Say God | Part 12: God's Top Ten for the Abundant Life

Exodus: What We Mean When We Say God | Part 8: God Grows us the Hard Way

Easter: What We Mean When We Say God | Good Friday: God's Self Portrait

Exodus: What We Mean When We Say God | Part 7: Redemption Songs

Exodus: What We Mean When We Say God | Part 2: The Name in the Flames

ascribe: A Series on Worship | Part 2: Give Your Body Back to God

Waiting for the Light | Part 2: Turning Back Towards Love

RUTH: Tragedy, Providence, Loyalty | Part 2: Where There Is Loyal Love, There God Is Also

THINKING CHRISTIANLY: On Loving God with Our Minds | Part 5: Tradition

THINKING CHRISTIANLY: On Loving God with Our Minds | Part 2: Experience

SHAPED BY THE SPIRIT: The Fruit of Life with God | Part 9: SELF-CONTROL

SHAPED BY THE SPIRIT: The Fruit of Life with God | Part 8: GENTLENESS

SHAPED BY THE SPIRIT: The Fruit of Life with God | Part 5: KINDNESS

SHAPED BY THE SPIRIT: The Fruit of Life with God | Part 3: PEACE

Psalm 109 | I Am Prayer