The Upper Room

The Upper Room 23 August 09 - The one you didn’t see coming (Marg Martin)

What do you do when crisis or tragedy comes your way and God is nowhere to be found?

(The video clip played at the start of this message can be seen on YouTube: http://bit.ly/Wl5FO )

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The Upper Room 16 August 09 - Father & Son (Mick Martin)

Much of what Jesus has to say in the ‘Upper Room discourse’ in John’s gospel (chapters 13-17) provides us with insight into God’s triune nature. This week we focus on one particular facet of the Trinity - the relationship between the Father and the Son.

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The Upper Room 9 August 09 - John 14:1-6 (Mick Martin, Andrew Baartz & Clive Dale)

This week, we experiment with a new format (a ‘polyhomily’) where three speakers share their thoughts on the first six verses of John 14.

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The Upper Room 2 August 09 - Sacred Meals (Mick Martin)

Human beings were created by God to eat food. We consider the implications of this fact for our spirituality.

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The Upper Room 19 July 09 - Follow (2) (Mick Martin)

Sometimes we can be more caught up in the idea of being a follower of Jesus than in the actual business of following him. Peter’s story of denying Jesus sheds light on this distinction and shows how Jesus makes up whatever might be lacking in our discipleship, as long as we stay in the light of his presence.

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The Upper Room 26 July 09 - Living Stones (Mick Martin)

1 Peter 2:5 tells us that we are “like living stones…being built into a spiritual house” in which God himself dwells. (See also Ephesians 2:22.)

At our gathering this week, we watched a segment of the documentary ‘Rivers and Tides’ as a kind of audiovisual parable of this scriptural metaphor.

(The film is available on DVD, but a low quality version can be viewed online at http://bit.ly/Iwg3u. The segment we watched was from about 17 minutes in to about 32 minutes. It shows Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy constructing a cone-shaped sculpture out of rocks on a tidal foreshore.)

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