Point View Church

Jon Mayak preached an awesome message on understanding our God in the storm. 

More than ever we need reminded of the character traits of the motherhood of God who embodies words of love to us. 

To have hope in the unknown is an incredibly transformative tool but we have lived in a culture of planning, certainty and have had no need for it.  God is calling us again to have hope in Him. To look at selves and see where are Hope is. To have Hope in grief and see new life come forth. 

We continued our series of Grave to Gardens with the topic thirst. Thirst can feel like a grave moment, feeling lack and need with no fulfillment. But the thirst can lead us to living water, into garden life. We must not get confused with resource thou when we need the source.

The question we have in this moment of the Coronavirus is - do we and will we have enough? And while most aren’t sure what is ‘enough,’ the fear is that we don’t have it and so our minds wandering towards how to get it. We hoard in a moment creating excess of things in our lives. The cross tells a counter cultural message... Deny and GIVE.

Often we feel the noises of the world drown out the voice of God but actually our hearts disconnected are the root causes. As we practice a rhythm of Silence and solitude we see transformation of our emotions, idols and gain direction from God. 

Opportunities are always in front of us and we can choose to see a wall or a door. In our world we love to see! We celebrate when we see a truth we will even fake it to just fit in. We create frame works that help us see but often these same frame works cause us to be blind. Jesus in John 9 teaches us what it means to see and the trust it forms. 

This past Sunday we finished up our series "Leave for the 99" hearing from  different experiences and perspectives on the power of the invitation. We looked at how it changed lives and how we can create space for the invitation.

As Christians we are called on mission to this world, to leave for the 99 lost sheep. We continued in John 4 - Woman of Samaria - Seeing Jesus prophesy into her situation which propelled her into new life and purpose. This world is longing for words of life and we have been given that gift through the Holy Spirit. What would our worlds look if we spoke words of life into it?

Catch up on this past Sunday's message from Pastor Jonny in part 2 of our series "Leave for the 99". This week we looked at the power of your story! As we leave home to lead home we need to be better story tellers, not story sellers. Telling a new story to this broken world.

Our direction this year is look into our value of being Outward Focused as a church. We started a new series, "Leaving for the 99" in part 1 - talking about leaving home to lead people home. Jesus in John 4 left his home land for the one Samariatan woman who was an outcast. What does it look like to leave home to lead home, how do we do it?

We took a Sunday to talk Vision for 2020. The importance of a name we declare over ourselves and our situations can not overstated. As part of Vision 2020 we shared our potential new church name and focus for the year.

This past Sunday we closed out "Our First Love series with a message “Our Confession” Why is it so important in our lives and keep our first love alive?

This past Sunday Pastor Craig spoke on "Pure Devotion" as we continued "Our First Love Series" sharing from 1 Cor 11:1-15. Our pure devotion must be singular focused. 

Opposite of Faith is not disbelief its certainty. When all we search for is clarity in relationships with God and one another things get weird. Trust causes first love to explode in our lives, but more often we want to control our futures which suffocates our first love. What is God calling us to trust Him for? What does trust cause in my life?

Cultivating a first love means we must contend against a fear. Fear of being hurt from past experiences, fear of not being good enough, fear of punishment. We love to quote 1 John 4:18 - perfect/completed love casts out fear! But this verse is the final time John uses the phrase "Perfect Love" in which he mentions it 4 times.  John is wanting to take us on a journey of what perfect/completed...

Rev 2 the church of Ephesus had abandoned their first love. In response God would remove His light, His presence if they did not change. The refining light of God is important part to our love with Him. God is challenging us to wake up and receive his illuminating love over our lives. To Remember our brokenness and need of Him, to Repent, turn back to Him and Return back to our action of first lov...

Peace has a Pace. You cannot love well or be at peace when you are physically in a hurry. Are we putting spiritual practices in place to slow our physical body to be loved by God and love others well?

No one likes conflict but we are called to be Peace Makers in the ministry of reconciliation. In this episode we look at what heart attitudes we need to take when in conflict with another. 

We try to create fake peace in our worlds through control, filling of things or espace. The Prince of Peace came to bring "Peace with God" so we could experience "Peace of God" in our walks. What does that look like? Enjoy this message from Pastor Jonny

This past Sunday Pastor Craig started our "Prince of Peace" Christmas series. Isaiah's prophecy of the Prince of Peace is one of the most powerful promises in all of Scripture. This message tracks further back to Genesis where we discover the name "Shiloh" and its significance in the Messianic prophecies.

Thank you to all involed in this weeks message! We continued our messages series "Our Values" - looking at our 4th value: Collaboration - “We welcome everyone to bring their unique giftings, ideas and perspectives to accomplish more than we could individually.” Enjoy this message!

Message from guest Speaker Andre Van Zyl  - Sunday Morning

Message from guest speaker Andre Van Zyl on Saturday 17th Nov.

It was an honor to have Andre Van Zyl with us over the weekend. Below is Friday night's message on "Protection of God over you life". This will encourage you in your walk, enjoy!