MISSION
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Daily Reading: Mark 1:14-15 Lord, Your good news offers me such a beautiful and simple invitation – to turn my back on the sin that slowly robs me of life, and to incline my heart and soul towards the love of the King and His Kingdom-Family, where there is true life, forever. Forgive me Lord,
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Daily Reading: Acts 8:1-25 Heavenly Father, truly You turn all things around for Your glory and our good. You turned around Stephen’s devastating death and the widescale persecution it unleashed, and used them to catapult the early Church into the mission field of Samaria. You turned around the darkness of demonic oppression that was so
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Daily Reading: Acts 3:1-26 Lord Jesus, I marvel at the confidence and faith Peter and John displayed as they followed the prompting of the Holy Spirit and ministered Your healing miracle to the man at the Beautiful Gate. I marvel at Your power put on display to restore that man’s health, wholeness and dignity. Like
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Daily Reading: Psalm 98 I worship and exalt You, Saviour God, for Your great and awesome work of salvation! I honour and praise You, God of all the earth, for making Your saving work available to people of every tongue, tribe and nation! I marvel at Your unfailing, steadfast and eternal love, which reaches to
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Daily Reading: Mark 16:14-20 Lord Jesus, thank You for entrusting to me the sacred task of disciple-making. Despite the times I lack faith, despite my own occasional stubborn refusal to believe, and even despite my apathy and laziness – by pure grace, You have chosen me to be a disciple-maker. Thank You for this holy
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Today we turn our attention towards this week’s theme – our call to make disciples! Daily Reading: Matthew 28:16-20 Lord Jesus, Bearer of all authority in heaven and on earth, despite the doubts that rise in my mind from time to time, I choose this day to worship You by faith. I choose to hold
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Daily Reading: Matthew 28:16-20 The call to pour out the Living Water of the Spirit to make the world around us a more beautiful and fruitful place can never be fully obeyed without verbally bearing witness to the saving work of Jesus too. When Jesus was about to ascend to the Father, He gave His
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We Christians are called to be a people who connect with God in passionate worship, connect to one another in love, and also connect to the world around us, pouring out the Living Water of the Spirit to make the world a more beautiful and fruitful place. Today we focus on this latter call to
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Daily Reading: John 14:5-31 This week we’ve been exploring the call to connect to the world around us in order to pour out the Living Water we have received and to make this world a more beautiful, kind and just place. This call is, in many ways, based on the mysterious reality of the Christian
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Daily Reading: Luke 4:14-21 Returning from a mission which manifested the power of the Holy Spirit operating in miracles and authoritative teaching, Jesus attended the synagogue in Nazareth and laid out His understanding of the mission God the Father had sent Him on by reading from Isaiah 61:1-2. Luke records the words He read as
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