Luke 6: 27-38 begins with a reminder from Jesus that the Good News of his teachings are fulfilled in our hearing of them and at the end of the Chapter he also reminds us that they are fulfilled in our acting on what we have heard. All music is produced under the following CCLI licenses:...

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On this final Sunday of 2020 Rev Siphiwe Madi is preaching on Epiphany: Everything about our faith is a part of the celebration of Epiphany. Epiphany literally means “revealing,” it is a taking away of the veil that covers something. Epiphany is about unveiling what Advent promises: that “all flesh shall see the salvation of...

In order to experience the world that Jesus’ birth inaugurated, we need to let go of the world we have, and begin to live in the world we long for. All music is produced under the following CCLI licenses: CCLI – West View Methodist Church Copyright license: 423296 size D SongSelect Premium Music reproduction license:...

The fourth Sunday of Advent is often called the week of love, because it is also the week in which we reflect on the moment that God’s loving promise, spoken through the centuries begins to be fulfilled in the incarnation. The incarnation adequately reflects what love means from a divine perspective, it reveals to us...

On this Second week of Advent we look at the Messenger who brings a message of preparation as we reflect on the prophet Isaiah. The message of this prophet is to tell God’s people that their God is coming and therefore he brings a message of peace and promise to God’s people. This message would...

Jesus’ kingdom is not about power and control. Jesus’ kingdom is not about his ultimate rule over and above others. Jesus’ kingdom is about relationship. “My kingdom is not from this world” because it is from God. The concept of kingdom is radically recalculated in the Gospel of John, from kingdoms that strain and sever...

The year 2020 has taught us that the church is not a building, but a body of people connected with bonds that transcend physical gathering. What one part of the body does (eg wearing or not wearing a mask) affects all, for better or for worse. When one part is suffering, we are called to...

Our ideas about death and what comes after our dying are critical. They affect our lives in this world more than we fully realise. Siphiwe walks us through three important thoughts The Serenity Prayer offers us about what our life in heaven will be like. All music is produced under the following CCLI licenses: CCLI...

In our reading, the writer of John’s Gospel makes a bold claim that God loves the world and by implication God loves us, if we were to believe this claim and make it our truth, in what ways might this truth enable us to accept our sinfulness and the sinfulness of our world as God...