Christmas Unwrapped | The Gift of Faith - Dom Ruso

This week we began a new teaching series focused on unwrapping the deeper
meaning of the Christmas story.

Dom showed us how many of us will be tempted to rush ahead to Christmas celebrations and parties and miss the important lessons God is teaching his people in the period of Advent, which leads up to Christmas. Take a listen to how the gift of faith can easily be built on fear rather than trust, and accept the invitation of John 3:16 to know that God so loved the world that he sent his son.

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Christmas Unwrapped: The Gift of Faith

Dom Ruso

Bitter Grace | Wrap Up Sunday - Dom Ruso

Our Wrap Up Sunday helped us bring a close to the story of Jonah. As part of our learning we looked at how Jesus points to Jonah to try to correct misguided ideas about God.

Bitter Grace: Wrap Up Sunday

Dom Ruso

This video was shown as part of this Wrap Up Sunday:

Bitter Grace | What Happens [To Me] When God Doesn't Take Sides? - Jean Martin

The final part of our "Bitter Grace" series from November 20, 2016.

This Sunday, Jean walked with us through the fourth and final chapter of the book of Jonah, showing us the power of anger, the place of discipleship and the practice of God's call in our lives. Jonah refuses to be like God and show compassion to the Ninevites but God hangs in there and keeps the conversation going. The books ends without a climax, and yet with a sense that God will overcome Jonah's resistance and that he will in fact become the God-like man he was intended to be.

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What Happens [To Me] When God Doesn't Take Sides?

Jean Martin

Bitter Grace | Preparing For Change - Dom Ruso

The fourth part of our "Bitter Grace" series from November 13, 2016.

This Sunday, Dom showed us how at this point in the story Jonah is ready to obey God, yet something deeper is going on. We looked at how God's grace moves the people of Nineveh to change, and yet Jonah continues to struggle with bitterness and anger. Together we were challenged by the realization that an experience of God's grace doesn't automatically make a person gracious towards others.

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Preparing for Change

Dom Ruso

Bitter Grace | Learning to Pray from the Gut - Matteo Mortelliti

The third part of our "Bitter Grace" series from November 6, 2016.

This Sunday, Matteo helped us look at Jonah's prayer from the belly of the whale, revealing that sometimes it takes being in the gut to start praying from the gut. Together we explored some of the barriers we experience to praying and the great resource we have in the Book of Psalms.

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Learning to Pray from the Gut

Matteo Mortelliti