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Margin: Hospitality
Margin: When what we have exceeds what we need; The gap between supply and demand; What’s left over and available for others.
Hospitality, accessibility, creativity, capability and energy are all significantly impacted by these balances.
Do you feel like you have enough? Does it feel like there’s anything left?
Join us in this season’s ‘On Topic’ as we address each of these areas in turn and challenge each other to value ‘Margin’.
Seasons: Motherhood
Seasons of change turn our lives upside down. Old habits die and new ones are formed.
Routines are only routines until they are interrupted – then we are often forced to reset, reevaluate, & reengage in a completely different manner.
How do we ensure we progress, rather than regress, during these seasons of upheaval?
Seasons: Growth
Seasons of change turn our lives upside down. Old habits die and new ones are formed.
Routines are only routines until they are interrupted – then we are often forced to reset, reevaluate, & reengage in a completely different manner.
How do we ensure we progress, rather than regress, during these seasons of upheaval?
Seasons: Pain and Hardship
Seasons of change turn our lives upside down. Old habits die and new ones are formed.
Routines are only routines until they are interrupted – then we are often forced to reset, reevaluate, & reengage in a completely different manner.
How do we ensure we progress, rather than regress, during these seasons of upheaval?
Seasons: Friends and Friendship
Seasons of change turn our lives upside down. Old habits die and new ones are formed.
Routines are only routines until they are interrupted – then we are often forced to reset, reevaluate, & reengage in a completely different manner.
How do we ensure we progress, rather than regress, during these seasons of upheaval?
Seasons:
Seasons of change turn our lives upside down. Old habits die and new ones are formed.
Routines are only routines until they are interrupted – then we are often forced to reset, reevaluate, & reengage in a completely different manner.
How do we ensure we progress, rather than regress, during these seasons of upheaval?
The Inevitable: The Resurrection
God interrupts the inevitable.
• God never changes.
• Upon His return & new reign, there will be no more suffering.
• Death was overcome on Calvary.
• And when He paid it all, we gained the right to be called ‘sons and daughters’.
Foretold centuries before it happened, fulfilling >300+ prophecies in the process, Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection were the penultimate inevitability, the culmination of God’s plan to redeem and restore His people to Himself.
The Inevitable: Taxes
Can the inevitability of tax season teach us anything useful?
There’s most certainly a lesson about being subject to authorities and being a faithful citizen… or, we could reflect on people like Daniel and Esther who were trapped in citizenship situations that violated their consciences.
We could dive into the very real human need to be part of a community; highlighting situations and problems that can only successfully be addressed by pooling resources and talents… or, we can address the very real pattern of governments to grow so corrupt that the pooling of resources tends to further human oppression rather than alleviating it.
And can we ignore the ever popular, ‘Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's’ quote? Or do we throw a curve ball and remind ourselves that ‘make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous wealth’ is included in the same scriptures?
The Inevitable: Death
Many areas of life feel out of our control - inevitable. However, maybe things like ‘Death and Taxes’ can teach us something deeper? How should we cope with serious concerns like our impending death?
The Inevitable: Suffering
Many areas of life feel out of our control - inevitable. Rather than focusing on our powerlessness, what if embracing the inevitable could be an act of Grace?
The Inevitable: Change
Many areas of life feel out of our control - inevitable. Rather than focusing on our powerlessness, what if embracing the inevitable could be an act of Grace?

