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Enjoying God Today
We live in a fathered world where every good thing comes from our Good Father in heaven. We can enjoy God in the little things, the deep things, and the best thing (Jesus Christ).
We enjoy God through our work when we work for him and through strength he provides. God gave us responsibility over the world to bring out the good potential within it. Yet, we should not only keep ourselves busy as culture demand of us, but also enjoy God through rest. God himself rested from his work on the seventh day. We need to guard our rest.
God invites us to enjoy all the good things he has made for us, for example, relationships with one another. God himself is a relational being: the three persons having related to each other in perfect love and unity forever. The world is the overflow of God’s relational instinct. We enjoy God through our relationship with Him, and with each other. There are few things worse than a broken relationship. The greatest chasm between the greatest relationship is sin, but our good father sent his son, Jesus, to repair and reconcile.
Let us enjoy God through his presence, his goodness, and his love for us. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Let him father you.
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11 Jan 2021
Dave Miers
10 Jan 2021
Luke Nelson
Luke is the Lead Pastor of City on a Hill Melbourne West. He joined City on a Hill in its early days, serving as the Community Pastor in Melbourne, before being asked to lead a new church plant. Having grown up in Melbourne’s western suburbs, he has a deep knowledge of and passion for the area, and a great desire to see the gospel bring transformation. A gifted communicator, he loves the work of pastoring a church, opening God’s word each week and seeing the Spirit work. Luke graduated with a BA (Hons) from Melbourne University, has a Grad Dip in Divinity and a Masters of Ministry from Ridley College. He is an ordained Anglican minister in the Diocese of Melbourne.
10 Jan 2021
Dave Chiswell
Dave serves as the Youth Minister at City on a Hill Geelong. Married to Alexi, father of Eden and Freya, and a golf tragic, Dave loves nothing more than helping people take Jesus seriously – because he’s totally convinced that Christianity makes more sense and offers more hope than any other worldview.
10 Jan 2021
Louis Glazebrook
Married to Esther and father of three girls (Evelyn, Audrey and Winifred) Louis is the Lead Pastor of City on a Hill Surf Coast. The story that God has written for his life has thus far seen him enjoy a country upbringing, service in the army, working as physiotherapist and now most recently completing an MDiv at Ridley College. A few of his many weaknesses include caramel slice, boys toys, and not putting away his shoes.
10 Jan 2021
Brendan Wright
Brendan is one of the pastors at City on a Hill Geelong. He is passionate about making Jesus known to this city after making the move from Melbourne in 2013. Just before that move he got married and became the husband to Neema and the two of them are now well and truly settled in Geelong. Outside of church ministry you are likely to find Brendan running around the Barwon, sampling one of the many amazing coffee spots Geelong has to offer or hacking up one of the equally stunning golf courses.
10 Jan 2021
Luke Nelson
Luke is the Lead Pastor of City on a Hill Melbourne West. He joined City on a Hill in its early days, serving as the Community Pastor in Melbourne, before being asked to lead a new church plant. Having grown up in Melbourne’s western suburbs, he has a deep knowledge of and passion for the area, and a great desire to see the gospel bring transformation. A gifted communicator, he loves the work of pastoring a church, opening God’s word each week and seeing the Spirit work. Luke graduated with a BA (Hons) from Melbourne University, has a Grad Dip in Divinity and a Masters of Ministry from Ridley College. He is an ordained Anglican minister in the Diocese of Melbourne.
10 Jan 2021
Nick Coombs
Nick is the Lead Pastor of City on a Hill Melbourne East. He loves Jesus, is passionate about connecting deep theology with everyday life, and eager to make a difference in the time he has by helping plant as many churches as possible. After Jesus, Nick loves his wife Jules, and his two kids, Axel and Aria. He holds an MDiv from Ridley College, is an ordained Anglican minister and gives too much of his time to fantasy sports.