THE FATHER IN US We all carry ideas about God. Some come through religion, tradition and teaching. Others arise from humanity’s own limited or distorted understanding of who God is. We were made in God’s image. Yet we often remake God in our image. Jesus came to reveal the Father and to free us from the limits of our understanding. In the Old Testament, sacrifice became central to the way people approached God. But did God give the command to sacrifice, or was sacrifice created by humanity...

WHO YOU ARE? As we explore the life beyond the manufactured life of ourselves — the ego, the identity we have constructed and learned to protect — we begin to discover who we really are. We were made in His image. For a long time those can simply be words written on a page. We confess them, believe them and hope that perhaps one day we will actually see ourselves that way. But what happens when they become truth within us? “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created...

PRIESTHOOD For generations, we have learned to see the Body of Christ through an established structure. Clergy and laity.Those who minister and those who are ministered to. Those who stand at the front and those who sit before them. Without realising it, this can become the lens through which we understand our relationship with God. But the New Covenant gives us another picture. Peter writes: “You also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood…”— 1 Peter 2:5...