How do we approach God? Without knowing God is safe and good and kind, it’s always going to be very difficult to let him into the areas of our lives we most need his power and love for us. Jesus says God is a father to us. But what does this actually mean?

We all know the importance of love. Without it our lives can be withered and empty. But it’s one thing to know the theory and quite another to actually put it into practice. So how can we learn to love well? This talk is an attempt to go beneath just surface theory and help us work out how we might love in meaningful, christ-like, incarnational ways.

What stops you from giving yourself a break? God created us to work from a place of rest, and yet so often we do the opposite - we rest from work. We toil and strive, working too long hours with no enough fulfillment, and find ourselves collapsing into the weekend, trying to recover before work starts again.

What makes us what we’re like? Why do we behave in the ways we do? In order to go forward in life, we often have to go back to revisit some of the painful experience in life which have been most formational. We don’t do this to ‘heal ourselves’ or for a spot of self-indulgent naval gazing, but rather to let the Holy Spirit in so that he can bring his supernatural power to heal and restore us. The more we’re able to do this the more we can live free from the power of the past and become the whole people we were created to be.