The TREASURY

When we engage with the Bible, we often engage with it like a book or something that has few practical outflows for our lives. This can cause us to render God as inanimate or someone who is happy to deal with or understand our treatment of them. Well, when it comes to the tithe and offerings, God lets us know how He feels about this. Throughout scripture, He shows us that it's a covenantal is...

Most of us love a bit of excitement, and oftentimes, we find ourselves chasing a feeling. However, sometimes, this can be to our own detriment. We can struggle to cope with mundanity when we don't have that feeling of a high; we search for another one, and another, and another. It becomes an empty cycle where we're chasing a feeling and if we crash low, God help us, because the search fo...

In life, we can encounter shakings. When we feel shaken by trials, we might ask, "Why, God?" What we don't understand is there is something taking place in the unseen, where there is an enemy desiring to present evidence against us. However, we can be comforted in that there is an Advocate we have on our side who has given Himself to be the evidence for us. In our SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE,...

Life is treated as a game by many, and many gamble with life. The highs feel really high; addictive even, but then we can find ourselves crashing and in trouble with sin. When we play with sin we're playing with "house money" it feels free until we realise the "house" always wins and we are unable to catch up in the win column. In our SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE service, Pastor Mike...

Patterns shape our lives. The issue is they're often unseen and incredibly influential, and the devil, like any predatory foe, uses our observable behaviours and patterns against us. Even though we should be experts on ourselves, we have persisting blind spots. In our SUNDAY SERVICE, Pastor Mike helps us study the life of Samson and his patterns and his enemy's patterns to help us see ho...

Hopelessness and despair are something many people face. They often come as a result of not seeing what they long for come to pass. In such times, we can resort to self-sabotage, isolation, and, most prominently, sin against God in retaliation. We feel unseen or unheard by Him. The Great Help seems to be unhelpful because we haven't got what we want. In our SUNDAY SERVICE, Pastor Mike helps b...

We're back with more of our series, the "SEVEN SEALS", looking at uncovering what can be seen as the mystery behind some of this apocalyptic literature in the Book of Revelation. In Episode 3, Pastor Mike breaks down the meaning behind the "Black Horse" and its rider. Given that we are in the last of the last days, we must have an understanding of the things to come so we...

It's a new year, and goals are a THING. They're such a thing that people go into a new year planning which goals they're aiming at. The issue is sometimes we don't achieve our goals; we give up, or sometimes we achieve the goal, but it doesn't bring the satisfaction we thought it would. All of this affects us when it comes to setting goals the next time around. We're...

They say, "The enemy is the inner me," which is a problem! We work against ourselves, but what does that even mean? What does it look like? Sometimes we have things working within us that we don't even realise are working against everything we desire. In our CONNECT Service, Pastor Mike helps us address this as we go to the hard-hitting book of James to get a real dose of truth. But...

We can all agree that sometimes the struggle is real! Trying to serve God, trying to do the right thing and even then, not seeing all we want to see. We find ourselves doing things we don't want to do but the things we do we can't seem to do. What the Apostle Paul said in Romans 7 rings true. This inner conflict can be tiring, and we don't know what else to do. We have tried everyth...

We're in Episode 2 of our Series The Seven Seal, looking at some End Times prophecy from the book Revelation to understand a bit more about what the end will look like and how that impacts us today. In our SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE service Pastor Mike gives us insight into a possible interpretation of the Red Horse and its Rider. We hope this message blesses you. We'd love to hear how the message...

When we consider discipleship, whether the call to it or the facilitation of it, we rarely consider the idea of it happening at the dinner table. I'm sure many don't view the dinner table as an integral part to discipleship; where men and women can come from the place of sinner to saint and disciple of Jesus Christ. We likely don't view our dinner table / home-space as a key part of...

Being forgiven a debt, or being forgiven and reconciled after an offence committed, ought to create a feeling of gratitude and appreciation toward the one who has pardoned the debt or offence. With specific regard to debt, this feeling of appreciation should be especially evident when the one forgiving bore the cost themselves. However, the trouble with many who claim to follow Jesus is sometimes...

Apocalyptic literature has been a fascination for many for generations. It captures interest and generates intrigue like little else. What is going to happen at the end of all things? - From Armageddon to the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse; there are so many interpretations, but these things originate in biblical scripture. As a part of our SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE series on the 7 Seals, Pastor Mike takes...

We all have needs, and it's so easy to think that when we're in need we cannot meet the needs of others, let alone the Kingdom. We can come to church and be involved in the Kingdom, but face real economic struggles so giving wouldn't make any sense at all, in the natural. But the hope of the Kingdom is that we do not merely operate in the natural, but have a supernatural power beyon...

It's so easy to make decisions on impulse. Oftentimes it feels like the right thing to do; we feel a compulsion and we want to take decisive action. But decisive action isn't effective when it doesn't deliver the desired results. Sometimes when we make impulse-driven decisions it can cost us dearly, but that's not what God would have for us. In our CONNECT Service, Pastor Mike...

Sacrifice can almost come across as a bad word. In this generation of putting yourself first, it definitely seems like it's not something that is so readily embraced. Many feel that in sacrificing, they lose, and that doesn't serve them well. But what scripture teaches us is sacrifice brings life.  This particular SUNDAY SERVICE was Remembrance Sunday and as we remembered and honoured th...

Life can be very distracting. It makes sense, there are a lot of things that concern us. In the face of all of this, it's easy to lose sight of what's valuable. But many times life will reveal what we deem as valuable and that can be for positive or negative effect. In this CONNECT Service Pastor Mike takes us to the book of 2 Kings as we explore the idea of "The Important Things&qu...

It can be easy to get comfortable, and we remain stuck in the same place. However, there are times when that place (that comfort zone) can soon become a place of great discomfort. We can feel like there are things opposing us, working against us - even squeezing us. But what is the lesson in those moments? What is God trying to communicate to us? In our SUNDAY SERVICE, Pastor Mike explores one pos...

Action and reaction, cause and effect... these are natural forces that we accept and apply in our universe. We understand them to varying degrees and we embrace them, but to truly understand why things happen and how to maximise the good outcomes we desire we must first understand where these forces come from. Although some agree life would teach us that these forces are indeed laws, these laws ar...

God has emotions! Yes - That's right. God has emotions. We can see it all throughout scripture, and what is so encouraging is that He is a passionate God who cares greatly for those He created, especially those He's redeemed. The problem is, do those in whom Christ is supposed to dwell and are supposed to be filled by His Spirit? Much of humanity's issues are likely found in the fac...

As we get further along in our life walks, we can find ourselves becoming increasingly distant and disconnected from people. Because we're tired or perhaps because we think we're okay we lose the value of social connection. This is an issue in the Kingdom of God. Distance and having no real ties of consequence can leave us vulnerable in times of trouble.  God created us as social creatur...

It is easy to come to the conclusion that the limits we live with(in) are is the full extent of our realities. This doesn't provide much hope, when often times our desire is to live beyond restrictions, be it economically, relationally, even with what we have to offer. The Holy Spirit wants to show us that our limits do not determine the extent of God's power through Christ.  Pastor Mike...

Baptism is often looked at as a moment or an event in the life of a believer. It's not very often that we think about baptism having a life-long implication beyond our testimony and our being baptised as an event. Could there be more to it than that? What does scripture say about it? Pastor Mike takes us to the writings of the Apostle Paul to bring an argument that highlights a holistic view...

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