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big sundays at Hope City continued…

// August 10th, 2008 // Inspiration, Sunday

I love Sundays – especially at the moment – as even though it’s summer and many people are away there seems to be lots of new faces around, some fresh growth and the worship and atmosphere in our meetings has been really filled with a faith-filled expectation and a real sense of God’s awesome Presence. It looks like as we head into September and we start out in our new building then we’re going to see a great season of growth and increase – that’s what I’m declaring and believing for as that’s the inheritance God has for his church!

(If you’re new in church make sure you come and say hi sometime soon as before long I’m going to lose track of who everyone is…)

Just finished Part 4 of my UNPACKED series today – and the final part… we’ve done the SOVEREIGN JESUS, the LIBERATING JESUS, the PROVIDING JESUS and today we looked at the ultimate topic of all, our SAVIOUR JESUS. I’ll be sorting some podcasting out this week so they should all soon be available to download and listen to if you’ve missed any of them.

Key verse today is from Hebrews 10:12-23 which speaks of Jesus being the amazing ONCE and for all sacrifice for us. The central understanding of God’s incredible GRACE being that he has done it all… he’s the Divine Bridge Builder who crossed the chasm between Man and Himself after centuries of Man attempting to cross an uncrossable divide. Instead God in his amazing love for His creation chose to cross it Himself.

A key theme of my UNPACKED series has been that Jesus is not for a once-in-a-lifetime moment in history when you give your life to Him but He is our Loving, Living God who is ALL we need for every day… Salvation is not something that just happened when you were 15 in a church listening to a preacher… but it is a POWERFUL act of God taking place everyday of your life as you allow His FORGIVENESS and HEALING bring constant transformation…. “being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory” (2 Cor 3:18)…

So stop allowing your past failures, insecurites, temptations, hang ups, illnesses and whatever issues clog your life… and live with the incredible power of salvation at work in your life bringing forgiveness, healing and wholeness to each and everyone of us…

I’ve really loved preaching this series – make sure you leave a comment if it’s made an impact in your life in someway!

Next week we’ve got our 0-30s Pastor – Dale Adkins preaching for the first time on a Sunday morning so that is going to be a Sunday not to be missed! Plus it’s Church Picnic weekend – so ‘Father God – please send some Sun!!’