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I have frequently had to work out when Deeper happened and have to dig through various sources to find out. So the definitive answer is here:
First there was ‘The River’ which was a monthly Friday night worship event from 2001-2003. Then Deeper started as a monthly Sunday evening service running 10 months of the year (taking summer off) which ran from 2003-2012.
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This was the last in the Renovation series covering some deep and difficult subjects. Here we summarized what had gone before and spoke about the how we seek and gain approval from others and from God.
An mp3 of the talk is available
And photos here….
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Opening with a video taking people from the business of everyday life through scripture to rest and calm. Then JJ led people through a meditation on a bible passage (Luke 8:40-53).
After some worship, some pre-recorded testimonies were shown of people sharing stories of how God had spoken to them or led them in certain situations.
“God doesn’t reveal his will to us for our consideration but for our participation.” Andy Stanley
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Continuing Renovation theme this covered some very tricky ground. Many of us don’t feel that God loves us.
Our life experience is not that we’re loved with an everlasting love. We don’t feel lavished upon. We don’t feel like the apple of anyone’s eye – let alone God’s.
But the scriptures say: “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
But often we don’t believe this. Listen to it all here.
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The premise for tonight’s theme of Ungodly Beliefs was that “Things appear to be true based on the facts of our experience but are false based on the word of God”, for example
- there is something wrong with me
- god doesn’t love me
- knowing likes me
- I’m a failure
- I can’t trust anyone
Listen to the full podcast for why these are false beliefs and how to tackle these things!
The format of the meeting was to give people plenty of time to think about these things, write some thoughts and feelings and then try to address these through prayer, meditative worship and receiving prayer ministry from others.
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Start of a new season under the title Renovation. During this season of six meetings we will be looking at ways of renovating our heart, our life and our spirit. We must desire our heavenly Father to shape our hearts and mould them to be after him; to take our lives and rebuild them into wholeness; to gather up our broken fragments and, like the artist who pieces together a mosaic, make them into something that is beautiful.
Tonight was the start of this process of looking at what is going on inside us so that we can better resemble Jesus. Using a number of passages from the old and new testament Gordon and Jenny demonstrated ways in which God wants to change our hearts, our inmost being, from stone to flesh and how Jesus brought these promises to us and it wasn’t just promises for ancient Israel.
During the service a heart shape was tiled onto a board at the front. During the worship set that followed the talky bit everyone had the opportunity to take a tile, write on it and smash the tile as a symbolic step of getting rid of the hardened heart we all have. There was also an opportunity for prayer ministry.
Resources:
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Deeper Returns for a new season this weekend!
From September 2009 – March 2010 we will be looking at the theme of Renovation more details here.
see you Sunday.
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Last in the theme of Monsters – looking at the inner monsters of Envy, Anger and Greed. This months meeting was also moved forward a week to make way for the West End Festival event next week.
Before the start of each of these we have been using playlists of related music, someone asked me for a track name, so here is this month’s Greed related tracks: Money (In God We Trust) by Extreme; Material Girl by Madonna; Money by Pink Floyd; If I Had $1000000 by Barenaked Ladies; Gold Digger by Kanye West Feat. Jamie Foxx; Mercedes Benz by Mercedes Benz; and Money (That’s What I Want) by The Beatles.
For a change, after a short welcome from Jenny we started with a worship set of the following songs: Indescribable, O taste and see, Amazing grace (my chains are gone). Then Gordon told a story about a Hamish the Hamster – this is where the mp3 recording starts – this was followed by this video looking at forms of Greed in the media…
Most of the core team that organizes Deeper then gave some examples of Greed in their own life, then asked people to share in groups what they thought their own greed was…
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Jenny and Gordon both then taught on the topic of Greed – mp3 recording – then there was an opportunity for ministry and worship (the second set included: The splendour of the king; This is my desire; Jesus we enthrone you; I’m giving you my heart and God in my living. Finishing off with Be Thou My Vision.
There is no Deeper service in July, have a good summer.
Second of a short group of three services under the title of Monsters, where we are tackling difficult topics of Envy, Anger and Greed. Three areas that are often hidden Monsters inside us that we hide from each other and often deny even to ourselves.
To open, Lorna shared a story of a monster from her nightmares when growing up, then Gordon reminded us of the point of the series and what was covered last time. 
After a short video montage showing scenes of anger from various movies JJ asked people to discuss a little about these clips, then led us through a series of searching questions to open up the topic of anger.
Gordon and Jenny then led the next section – download mp3 here
The with an invite for prayer ministry the main sung worship section began. Here’s a note of the set list:
- Blessed be the name
- It’s our confession
- You chose the cross
- Holy God
- God in my living
- O taste and see
- Who is like you
- Let the weak say
Visualists: we try to change the visual set up, images used and the way we mix regularly. This month we used two verticle drapes with projectors placed close and low to skew the image in a deliberatly distorted manner. The same image was used on all three screens with the words overlayed on the centre (fast-fold) screen only. We have been using GrandVJ from ArKaos for video mixing for some time now which among other things gives the visual team much more flexability and control over upto 8 layers of video to mix live.
First of a short group of three services under the title of Monsters, where we will be tackling difficult topics of Envy, Anger and Greed. Three areas that are often hidden Monsters inside us that we hide from each other and often deny even to ourselves.
After a short introduction JJ lead us through some readings and quotes about the topic of envy (slides available here) and asking people to share in groups their thoughts and examples of this. This was followed by an example of the world portrayal of Envy using the Nicklback video for Rockstar. Gordon followed this by giving away an ipod and showing us that our issues of envy isn’t really with the people that are blessed – our issue is with the person who gave out the blessings and didn’t give them to us…
Dan 4:35, 1 Chron 29:12
Jenny then followed this with by telling us that as God’s children, we’re called to be like our Father. The bible says God is love… and has this to say about love: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Cor. 13:4-6
We cannot love if we have envy lurking in our hearts. So how can we root it out?
- Embrace the truth that we think God owes us….
- Confess our envy to somebody….
- Make it your habit to celebrate the success of others….
Celebration cleanses our hearts of envy, so we then moved into a time of celebration and prayer ministry.
There was a break during the sung worship for a second short meditation led by JJ on the topic of celebration – slides available here.
The first part of the service was recorded and the mp3 is available from the St Silas web pages. More photos here.
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