Forest Brook Community Church

Sexual Purity

We heard the first version we published earlier this week was too quiet, and difficult to hear.  Hopefully this works better for you!

This Word Works

Hear Me and Live

Return – Hear Me and Live

 

The New Year is a time when many of us take stock of our lives and resolve to make some changes for the better. Maybe this is the year we’ll get more physically fit, or go back to school, or eat a more healthy diet. Self-improvement is a huge industry in our culture and people spend a lot of money on gym memberships, personal trainers, diet-approved foods, books and course – all in the hope that there will be a pay-off in the end. As we begin the new year of 2018 we want to draw everyone’s attention to what God says is the real source of the help we need for whatever ails us. It is Him. And He is often not the first place we turn when we need help. In this 3-part series we will look at what God says in Isaiah 55, where He tells us that listening to Him is the source of real life for our souls. If it is our hearts desire to be a Spirit-led church, then listening to God is the place to begin! That is what our 90 days of listening were all about last spring – learning to listen to God. Listening leads to hearing, and hearing – when obeyed, leads to life. We want to be a listening church – as individuals and as a community.

Make Room - Hope

Make Room - Peace

Make Room - Joy

“Good news of MEGA joy!” by Kevin Armstrong

In the hustle and bustle of the busy Christmas season, “joy” is not one of the moods we experience most often. Yet the angels proclaimed the birth of Jesus to be “news of great joy” to the whole world. How do we miss that in our preparation and celebrations? More importantly, how do we recapture it? (Luke 2:10; John 15:11)

Peacemakers and the Persecuted

Hungry and Forgiving

Humble and Meek

In Matthew’s gospel, the Sermon on the Mount represents the new constitution for the people of God. If the new covenant describes the relationship between the believer and God through Jesus Christ, the Sermon on the Mount describes what the people living within that covenant relationship will look like. And it’s a very high ideal! The Sermon begins with the Beatitudes, eight pithy statements beginning with the word “blessed” that describe the state of being for those living in the kingdom of heaven. These are the qualities of life for the community which is formed around Jesus. But on the surface they are far from alluring! Poverty, mourning, meekness, hunger, purity, persecution – these are not qualities that we are naturally attracted to in this world. And therein lay the secret of the kingdom that the Beatitudes convey. They are not descriptions of how we are supposed to try and live our lives by sheer determination and will, but rather descriptions of the outcomes of those already living their lives in the kingdom of heaven here on earth. So are the beatitudes utopian values that we have no earthly hope of attaining in this life, or something else? That’s what we will endeavour to find out in this series!

Restoring Women and Marriage