Our first lockdown Sunday.
Catherine and Alistair preach on Psalm 10 and Luke: 22: 39 - 46
What do you fear and how much control do these fears have on your life?
So often we think we should be fighting against the particular fear. But actually we need to fight for the antidote for fear.
We need to fight for Love.
Perfect love drives out fear and so if we pursue love - if we purse perfect love - love becomes the ‘antidote for fear’.
In his talk, Alistair starts to unpack the ‘antidote to fear’.
Alistair begins our new series on the book of Psalms focusing on Psalm 100.
To watch the introduction from the Bible Project go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpny22k_7uk
Juanita Ryan, at the beginning of her study on psalms, writes that ‘the psalms are acts of relating to God. In the intense language of poetry, they address God with frankness and urgency. They give voice to our inner turmoil... The psalms offer us the gifts of expression, courage and celebration - and the gift of raw honesty. The psalms do not attempt to be “nice” or “polite” or even “theologically correct.” Instead, they give us permission to talk to God without holding back and to be exactly where we are and who we are with God.’ The psalms enable us to be ‘free to’ (as our series is entitled) talk to God and allow Him to impact every aspect of our lives as we open ourselves to Him with honest prayer. My hope is that this series will encourage and equip us to dive into, not only the individual psalms we will be focusing on, but into the whole book, enlivening our prayer life and reigniting our worship to God.
Alistair finished our series on ‘Intentional Living’ exploring how we can be intentional with our love and focusing on the amazing passage in 1 John 4.
‘God is love. It is his fundamental nature - the very characteristic of who God is, is love… When we love people we display some of God in the world’.
Alistair sets out a challenge to us as a church to ‘Love Greystones’ - to display and demonstrate the love of God to those in our community.
Alistair finished our series on ‘Fruitfulness on the frontlines’.
Passages:
1 Peter 3:15-16
Matthew 10: 16 – 20.