'Identity' tagged posts

Identity: Come To The River

This week we continued our Identity series, and followed on from the last session on the theme of ‘Beloved’. We spent our time exploring just three verses [Mark 1:9-11] which contain the story of Jesus’ baptism: We explored three main points without using alliteration [gasp!] the heavens being torn open the flow of love within the Trinity…

Identity: Beloved

This evening we baked & decorated cupcakes to bless the staff of schools who come to Spurgeons for Easter Cracked this week. Whilst the cakes were baking we continued our theme of Identity, looking tonight at our status as God’s beloved. Starting by reflecting on the quotes in the slideshow below, then watching a couple of videos. The…

Identity: God Covered Them

Although we were technically continuing our ‘Identity‘ theme, this week we took a bit of a detour to reflect on a verse we passed over last week. Adam & Eve had sinned, realised they were naked, and were suddenly ashamed. They sewed together some fig leaves and made themselves some clothes. When God was walking…

Identity: Where Are You?

Continuing our ‘Identity‘ series, this week we looked at the first question asked in the Bible by God. We pick up the story at Genesis 3:7, after Adam & Eve have been tempted by the sneaky serpent and have disobeyed God: 7 Right away they saw what they had done, and they realized they were…

Identity: Image of God

Last session we introduced the new theme of ‘identity’ and heard how God created us, and how amazing we are. This week we continue by exploring what it means not just to be created by God but to be made in His image – that gives us big shoes to fill! 24 God said, “I command…

Identity: Introduction

We’re starting a new series on the theme of identity. Our identity, and our understanding of it, is fundamental to who we are. I’m grateful to my friend, Nick Francis, for allowing us to use his awesome photo for this series. Nick is a pretty ordinary guy: husband, dad, youth worker, etc. But this photo of…