The weekly preach Podcast from Following Jesus Johannesburg.
Taking a wrong offramp on the highway can be frustrating but sometimes getting is not the worst thing that can happen to us. If we care to look deeper, we can find that there is a beauty and a gift in getting lost and great adventures and discoveries to encounter on our wrong off ramps. #HighwaySeries #Offramp #Community #Adventures
Taking wrong off-ramps (sinning) is part of our christian journey here on earth, returning to the Highway (right standing with God) is what we often wrestle with. Join us for our Sunday online gathering @9am as we learn and search for practical ways to get onto the Highway.
The Highway Part 2 - REST - Jennifer Lee As we navigate our way on this Highway called life, how do we learn to take REST? How do we learn to operate from rest? This is a challenge for most of us and we learn from Psalm 127:1-2 that says that unless the Lord builds a house, those who build it, labour in vain. It is God who gives rest.
“So why do you keep calling me ‘Lord, Lord!’ when you don’t do what I say?” As we start a new year we need to remember that Jesus demands that His followers not only know the word/scripture but that we also become doers of the word. This requires us to have strong foundations in our faith and theology which in turn will help us produce fruit in all seasons of our lives. The truth is, this is not always possible and we need to ask ourselves how can we practically take steps that will help us on the journey? Join us in our four week series Titled The Highway where we will explore practicals ways that will help us build strong foundations and navigate the challenges we come across on The Highway.
The birth of Jesus is sorrounded by Drama, Injustice, Pain, Weeping, Death but Jesus birth is also sorrounded by Joy, Love, Hope, Grace, Hope, Justice, Mercy, and Salvation amongst many other things.Join us as we celebrate the birth of our King who is a Gift to us.
“For a child is born to us, a son is given to us. The government will rest on his shoulders. And he will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Our God has many names, in this season how are you experiencing Him?
As we find ourselves in the middle of Advent, How are we waiting on God in this season? How are we preparing our hearts and minds for this time of Advent especially in the midst of all this chaos and uncertainty?
Worship is not only about music, instruments and events, it is so much more than that. Worship is a heart posture. On the other hand, Prayer encourages healthy communion with God. How do we embrace these important qualities of our faith and apply them in our day to day life? Acts 12:1-11 and Acts 16:25 offers us possible practical examples/model we can learn from.
God transforms Peter's heart and opens his eyes to the fact the Gospel is for everyone. Peter carried historical baggage that taught him to discriminate against others based on their background, ethnicity or race and God corrects him.
What does it mean for us followers of Christ today to read the book of Acts and apply it to our context? We asking tough questions today that will challenge us and hopefully help us reflect.
What character traits and spiritual formation do we need to deal with rejection, false accusations, persecution and suffering?Take a listen as we look into these questions and continue in our Acts Series.
Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which needs to be performed but a privilege to be enjoyed. Today we have the privilege to pray together as a community so lean in, press in and seek God.
Acts 27 & 28 tells us about Paul's journey to Rome via sea that included a shipwreck. Shipwrecks are dangerous, uncomfortable, painful and can lead to death. What are some of the shipwrecks in your life that have distablized your life? Join us tomorrow when we tackle this topic.
Conflict will arise in our lives but how we handle will determine the outcome of the conflict.
When the Holy Spirit came upon them, they received Power to be His Witnesess.This Power radically transformed the community and they became radical in their Generosity, in their Love for one another, In the Fellowship, in their Prayer life and in everything they did. #ActsSeries
How has the Holy Spirit showed up for you in this lockdown? How can we be more open to the Holy Spirit in this season? - Sometimes we try to use old ways of survival instead of open to new ways in which God can be present and do some work in us and with us.
On few occasions, Jesus talked to his disciples about the Kingdom of Go, demonstrated the values of the Kingdom of God but until they were giving knowledge and understanding, they never understood what He was talking about and instead were consumed by the restoration of their earthly kingdom of Israel. Like the disciples, we can concern ourselves with and be consumed by our small kingdoms here on earth and never fully live for the kingdom of God.
From the beginning of time God gave Adam and Eve a mandate to carry His light into His creation but they failed to do so. The book of Acts tells us a factual historical account of events about a group of ordinary people with flaws and limitations who were EMPOWERED and TRANSFORMED by the Holy Spirit and radically lived out their CONVICTION that impacted the world with the Good News.
For the past five weeks during woman's month, as a church we intentionally created space to amplify the voices and experiences of women to raise awareness and stand against gender based violence in our society. GBV is a men problem, not a woman problem.The church is the light of the world, a salt of the earth - a city on a hill and as Following Jesus community, we continue to commit ourselves to seek practical ways, through partnership with other organisations, to be part of the healing story as our community, society and country at large.
Genesis 1:27 gives us the original design when God made men in His own image. We have messed things up in this fallen world and women have suffered in the process. As Christ Followers we have a maandate to reclaim His original design to the world.
Genesis 16 tells a story of a slave woman called Hagar, an Israelite, an Egyptian (An African Women) who becomes a single mother. She becomes desolate and unemployed, She is not in control of her life story and she is not seen by her masters. But God has a different interaction with Hagar, He looks for Hagar and finds her, He acknowledges her and calls her by name. God does not impose His views on her but asks her questions. He gives her a space to voice her issues. He restores her humanity and dignity and then God directs her and makes a personal promise to her as He did to Abraham.
As a community of Following Jesus, diversity and healing are two of our ongoing priorities as a church, and this month, we are dedicating our efforts to exploring what this means in the context of Women's Month. Over the next few weeks we are intentionally taking time to amplify the voices and experiences of women and today we do this through a panel of dynamic voices. In this discussion we address the second pandemic in our country called Gender Based Violence. We hope that you will this conversation meaningful and that you will not just listen but act on what moves in you today. May God Grant us all the grace and strength we need as we continue this fight against GBV.
As a community, diversity and healing are two of our ongoing priorities as a church, and this month, we are dedicating our efforts to exploring what this means in the context of Women's Month.As a family we will take time to amplify the voices and experiences of women and today we look at Luke 7.
If our communities are to be prophetic communities that goes against the stream, as followers of Christ, what are some helpful tools that can help us be prophetic in our everyday lives? Jonah rejected a prophetic assignment
To be a Prophetic Church means going against the stream, it means being God's instruments (as the prophets were) and speaking as Jesus spoke, serving as He served and Loving as He Loved.
How do we respond to or recognise Opportunities and Obstacles to transformation in a time of uncertainty?
Healthy spiritual routines can helps us to flourish and excel but also healthy spiritual routines can keep us focused in moments of pressure and hardships.
David uses a metaphor of shepherd to describe his relationship with God. What metaphor would you use to describe your relationship with God?
As we celebrate Fathers Day, we reflect on the role of fathers and the meaning of Fatherhood.
Racism, Injustice, police brutally are some of the words on everybody’s slips and to be honest it is always that we know where to begin to try and process some of these terms and some of the events that are happening around the world. As a church, we created a space where we could have a brave conversation for all of us to listen, to learn, to reflect, to lament and to pray together.
For by Grace you have been saved through Faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Ephesians 2:8-9. #Worship #churchonline #Gathering #Church
Acts 2:17 ‘In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Today we celebrate Pentesost, a time when the disciples received a gift of the Holy Spirit. But what does it mean for us today to be people living with the gift of the Holy Spirit?
The world defines Peace as the absence of conflict but Jesus defines peace as a gift that carrries us in the midst conflict. The world's peace is based on our circumstances but Jesus Peace is a Gift that guards our hearts and minds in the midst of our circumstances. John 14:27
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.Romans 15:13 (NLT)
We were once dead in our transgressions and sins, we followed ways of this world but because of His great Love, we are made alive with Christ and are saved by Grace.
All who put their faith in Christ are saints who have spiritual blessings through the Holy Spirit.
Church is a place where believers meet to be equip each other for their everyday lives and the book of Ephesians is a great book to help do exactly that.
The price of the New is the old. Luke 5:33-39
Church is meant to be a hospital for the wounded, a family to belong to, a school to equip and teach and an army ready for battle.
Testimonies are meant to give glory to God and encourage believers through their stories.
In Jesus Christ, we have HOPE that is strong and trustworthy.
In his lament during tough season, prophet Habakkuk said, though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Saviour. The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to tread on the heights (Habakkuk 3:17-19. For us who believe, HOPE has a name, that name is Jesus. It is impossible to Endure the RACE SET BEFORE US (Hebrews 12:1-4) if our eyes are not fixed on Hope Himself, JESUS. We have a HOPE SET BEFORE US (Hebrews 6:18), a living hope (1 Peter 1:3) that we affirm and hold tightly to without wavering (Hebrews 10:23-25).
Learning to get back in our lane and running the race set before you with endurance. Hebrews 12: 1-4
Our testimony Sunday gave all of us hope as we listened to how God has touched and changed the life of people in 2019. A short christmas message of the Gift that was promised but Rejected by FJ Senior Pastor- Paballo Thekiso
A call to assertive Faith. Matthew 11:12, Isaiah 35.
Fasting and Prayer is the doorway to breaking through our numbness and distraction towards awareness and transformation.
Developing a new culture requires a prophetic imagination empowered by the Holy Spirit.
The word of God is demanding and stretches our Faith. Faith requires us to take the first step and allow God to move with you. Just because you are in a drought season doesn't always mean you outside God's will. 1 Kings 17:1-24
We are multicultural church on a journey of being a DIVERSE community that intentionally EQUIPS each other to a healthy SPIRITUALLY that brings about HEALING and TRANSFORMATION first in our own hearts and to the broader society at large. This journey requires intentional action, living, sacrifice, surrender and faith expression that is prophetic where everyone gets to play. By pursuing these things we are pursuing the Heart of God and therefore serving His purpose.
Proximity is everything if we are to influence/impact communities around us.
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