
Day 4 — Keep In Step With The Spirit
Christian freedom is not freedom to indulge ourselves, but freedom by the Spirit to love and to grow the character of Christ.

Christian freedom is not freedom to indulge ourselves, but freedom by the Spirit to love and to grow the character of Christ.

Because we have been raised with Christ, we put to death the old patterns of life and clothe ourselves with his character.

Christian growth calls for our wholehearted obedience because God himself is already at work within us.

Jesus sees us in our brokenness, offers the wholeness we cannot achieve, and enables us to walk in the new life he gives.

This Sunday we begin a new nine-week sermon series called The Seven: From Vice to Virtue. It has nothing to do with the Seven Wonders of the World, The Magnificent Seven, or even the rather less magnificent seven dwarfs. Instead, we will be exploring seven patterns of thought, desire and behaviour that Christian tradition has identified as particularly destructive: pride, envy, sloth, wrath, greed, gluttony and lust.
In case you are already thinking, “This sounds like the perfect time to try another church for a couple of months,” let me try to dissuade you!

New birth is God’s hidden work, but its fruit becomes visible in a life devoted to Jesus.

The pain of the cross gives birth to a joy that no one can take away.

We do not enter God’s kingdom by achievement but by a new birth from above.