What is ChurchSuite

At Freedom Church are now using ChurchSuite as our main communication and organisation tool. Read on as to why and how…

ChurchMark Kelly19 March 2019ChurchSuite, Communication, AdministrationComment

Who Do You Trust?

It takes a long time for me to trust someone truly, but when I have invested that trust in someone, I will stick with them through thick and thin. However, on the flipside of that, if that trust is violated, then I struggle with the desire to maintain a relationship with such a person.

ObservationsMark Kelly10 January 2019Trust, ProverbsComment

Sweating the Small Stuff

How often do you find yourself just putting up with stuff? I don’t just mean significant things, I mean all the small things that aren’t much of an issue, but over time they develop into irritants, and then they truly start to get on your nerves. The reality is, however, that it would only take a short amount of your time to sort stuff out, but for some reason, we create workarounds and just put up with them.

ObservationsMark Kelly31 December 2018New Year, Small Stuff, ChangeComment

The Holy Who? (Part 4)

Over the first three parts of this series we have defined, admittedly in a simple way, why we should think of the Holy Spirit as a person and not an ‘it’ or a ‘blur’. But how does the Holy Spirit fit into the concept of the Godhead? That is the Holy Trinity – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit?

CharismaticMark Kelly29 November 2018SpiritComment

The Holy Who? (Part 3)

The Holy Spirit bears at least three characteristics of what makes a person a person: Intellect, Feeling, and Will.

Mark Kelly29 November 2018Comment

The Holy Who? (Part 2)

I did a bit of checking recently and came across a survey done in 2009 by the Barna Group (a research and resource group focused on the intersection of faith and culture). It was a wide-ranging and nationwide survey, admittedly across the USA, but one of the points of the study was most enlightening.

CharismaticMark Kelly29 November 2018SpiritComment

The Holy Who? (Part 1)

At Freedom Church we spent a year talking about activating the gifts of the Spirit and living lives where the Fruit of the Spirit is there for all to see. We heard some beautiful messages over that year, but just over halfway through God sprang the thought on me that, even as Charismatic believers, did we have any real notion as to who or what the Holy Spirit is?

CharismaticMark Kelly29 November 2018SpiritComment

The Medium and The Message

There’s an idea that I read about some years ago and I think it’s incredibly relevant to the Christmas season. The idea is this: The medium of the message is as important as the message itself.

ObservationsMark Kelly29 November 2018Christmas, Jesus, MessageComment

We Are The Church (Part 4)

What do you think of when you read or hear the word ‘mission’, what images come to your mind?

You might imagine small huts in remote jungles of South America or see a row of African woman wearing colourful robes, lined up for a photo – kind of like the ones we see on the news when they show us stock images over a story about tribal Africa.

ChurchMark Kelly29 November 2018Mission, Salvation, BibleComment

We Are The Church (Part 3)

John Wesley was the founder of what became the Methodist denomination. Initially, this group was called the ‘Holy Club’. People, like Wesley, who formed this club had became frustrated with aspects of the Church of England and wanted to reform parts of it.

ChurchMark Kelly29 November 2018Church, Community, Family, Methodists, peopleComment

Freedom Blog

These posts are written primarily by Mark Kelly, one of our senior church leaders. We hope that they challenge and provoke, but most of all encourage and inspire!