The Next Five Weeks

In our first week we focused upon some of the wonderful promises of God’s love and presence now available to us. In these next five weeks we are going to focus upon some of the barriers inside of us that prevent us experiencing more of the love, joy and peace that God has for each one of us.

Each week we will look at specific way sin can has lodged itself in our souls. We won’t be looking at ‘superficial’ sins, e.g. my bad temper, my drinking problem, my tendency to worry or need control etc. We want to look at, with the Holy Spirit’s help, the more foundational stuff. We want to ask the question: “What is the deeper sin in my life that is the root of my bouts of uncontrollable rage and anger?” “What has been done to me and what have I done which has created this ‘stronghold’ in my life?”

We are not looking at neurosis’s or emotional brokenness though we may well have this but we are looking at ‘sin’. Sin: stuff which is in disobedience and disagreement with God’s word and God’s action in Jesus.

Wonderfully, Jesus promised us help. He promised us the Holy Spirit to ‘convince us of sin’. So when we ask the Holy Spirit to show us what is in our hearts he will show us.