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• Discerning the Dawn: Knowing The Time

  "You know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers. The night is nearly over; the day has drawn near" (Romans 13:11-12).What does it mean to discern the dawn of God's new creation? It means to recognise the time; "the night is nearly over; the day has drawn near." As we enter into the season of advent as a church, we are taking time to explore the traditional readings from the common lectionary to help prepare our hearts for the arrival of Jesus our lord and God, who is coming to make his home among us.

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• Generous God: Malfunctions in our giving and hope in God's commitment

  In this final sermon in our series, Jonathan returns to some themes from earlier messages, looking at how fear leads to malfunctions in our giving but that God's commitment to forming Christ in us, both individually and collectively, will ultimately bring us through these malfunctions and into the freedom for which we so keenly yearn.

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• Generous God: Living as God's Stewards

  In this third sermon in our new teaching series, Lloyd opens up various parts of the Bible to show how we can discover our identity as steward's (rather than owners) of God's abundant resources. He makes the case that as we live into our identity as stewards, we discover freedom from being "possessed by our possessions." Lloyd encourages us to consider our role as stewards of time, money and energy, and to see these three resources as being there for us to put to use to bless the poor, the support the church, and to advance the gospel.

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• Generous God: The Shock and Scandal of God's Generosity

  In this follow on sermon from last week, Jonathan returns again to Jesus' "difficult" words about our blindness to greed and our need to learn how to live open handedly when it comes to sowing for the kingdom. While it is true that some giving produces a clear and direct feedback loop of receiving, there is another kind of giving which the Bible affirms; one which is shocking and scary – the scattering of gifts – and yet when we look at the life of Jesus we see that this too is a path toward "the life that is truly life" (1 Tim 6:19). He wont lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on us, and yet at the same time he holds out his hand and says follow me into places where we would not ordinarily go.

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• Generous God: God the Gracious Host of Creation

  In this opening sermon in our new series on God's generosity, Jonathan reflects on Jesus' teaching in Luke 12:13-34 and its grounding in the creation narrative. He concludes by challenging us to open our lives up to become participants in God's generous flow of gifts in the world.

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