The Father we never knew Phelim Doherty

“You cannot thrive in your marriage if you keep going out at weekends acting as if you are single. What would you say to a friend who got married recently but has decided that every weekend he is still going to go out on the town with all his single mates and do everything they do?
That is what the Holy Spirit is saying to the Church, the New Creation.
How can you reveal the new creation life, the married to God life to this generation, when every weekend you get together in church with people who speak to you as if you are single? “

River City Worship from Pentecost Sunday. "I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters"

A life-giving message contrasting the futility of self, with living from the life God breathes into us in Christ. "Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit." John 12:24. This message was given in River City Church on Saturday May 28th 2024.

His words have such power, that by the time you hear them, everything He said is already accomplished.

To preach the Gospel in the power of the Spirit is to find yourself, much to your own surprise, speaking to what is not, as if it is. Of all the voices that are speaking to you in this world, the voice of God is the only one that does not speak to you according to your natural state.

Live reconciled.
Live from the party, not from the field.
Live from His acceptance, not for His acceptance.
It is not your job to reconcile yourself to God.
God has done that through the man Christ Jesus.