by Watermark Community Church | Jul 30, 2020 | Environment, Gospel |
Wasting Away by Henrieke van Kampen and Cherry Kwan [This blog is part of a series on the Gospel and the Environment] God of Justice “Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity” so goes the start of Ecclesiastes. These words ascribed to...
by Watermark Community Church | Jul 16, 2020 | Environment, Gospel |
The Heavens Declare the Glory of God by Cherry Kwan and Henrieke van Kampen [This blog is part of a series on the Gospel and the Environment] “Father in Heaven, when spring is come, everything in nature returns in new freshness and beauty, the lilies and the birds...
by Watermark Community Church | Jul 2, 2020 | Environment, Gospel |
by Henrieke van Kampen and Cherry Kwan [This blog is part of a series on the Gospel and the Environment] Have you ever read the story in the Bible where Samson tears up a lion? The Spirit of the Lord comes upon Him and he gains the strength to tear the lion into...
by Chris Thornton | Jun 24, 2020 | Christian Life |
“I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church. ….” Col 1:24. A ministry leader came to me saying “I can’t believe these people never reply to my texts....
by Chris Thornton | Jun 4, 2020 | Mission |
But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name’s sake. This will be your opportunity to bear witness. Settle it therefore in your...
by Watermark Community Church | May 21, 2020 | Christian Life, Gospel |
The first two commandments tell us to worship no other gods and make no idols. But Scripture does not merely tell us not to worship idols but it models ways to smash our idols. One such way is through mockery. The prophets continually expose the stupidity of...
by Chris Thornton | May 6, 2020 | Bible |
How Should Christians read the Law? The problem with reading the law Any one who has ever done a read-through-the-Bible-in-a-year plan often finds the book of Genesis a reasonable read, Exodus is fine until you get to chapters 21 and then you get a load of laws about...
by Watermark Community Church | Apr 22, 2020 | Bible |
The 10 commandments are never called the 10 commandments in Scripture. In Hebrew, they are the 10 Words. They are not impersonal laws but personal commands from a personal God. There are 2 versions of the 10 Words. The first occurs in Exodus 20 when Israel had...
by Watermark Community Church | Apr 9, 2020 | Christian Life |
During this period, corporate worship on a Sunday looks very different from meeting physically. We do not want to settle for the virtual as the new norm in the church as we were made as humans for physical not virtual interaction but we recognize this is a season God...
by Chris Thornton | Mar 12, 2020 | Christian Life |
We live in a city that always wants the latest, the most novel, the weirdest, the newest thing. The changes of the 21st century are more rapid than any in history. Micro-chips are tripling in power every year, our food is getting faster, our information intake is...
