Although we cannot actually be responsible for other people's spiritual growth and need God to effect growth in us, we are not meant to grow spiritually in isolation, for 'the life into which we grow to maturity in Christ is a life formed in community.’ (Eugene...

Stephen continued preaching on the Lord's Prayer (Matt 6:9-15), looking at verse 11: 'Give us today our daily bread.' This verse talks about provision and reminds us how God provided for the Israelites in the wilderness (see Ex 16:14-15), but Jesus's words previously...

A metaphor is 'a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.' Last week, we looked at the way Ezekiel saw the river of God and how this is a metaphor for the Holy Spirit. Metaphors abound when...