With a skip!

The great news in the ancient book is that God made a way that people could return to knowing the goodness and love of God, the way He originally intended.

The only way He could do this was by coming to earth HIMSELF in the form of a man. This meant that  he could show mankind His love and make a way for man to be as He originally created him to be.
There are many stories in the ancient book which lead up to  God coming to earth in the form of man. Supernatural stories of people who trusted in God and were friends with God.
God so loved the world that He came in bodily form as Jesus.

The fact that a man named Jesus lived on earth and did many amazing miracles has been shown to be true through historical accounts of the time. This is not a fairy story! The ancient book is full of stories of how God through Jesus showed His love and kindness towards humanity. Jesus showed us what God's 'world', His Kingdom is like. It might surprise you......

The only way the mess of the world could get sorted, was through Jesus showing the better way, winning over mistrust, death and destruction.  Jesus' acts of love, humility and obedience to his Father in heaven showed us the true way to a world where there can be healing and forgiveness.
It was a hard way and it cost him everything. Jesus - son of God, died a painful death, he was perfect but took on our messiness and imperfectness. He gave up his life because he loved us.

He lived a supernatural life - to show us that we could
He died a supernatural death -  to show us that we could

The most amazing thing happened. Although Jesus was well and truly dead. He had been buried in a tomb with a large stone rolled over the doorway to close it off, the ancient book tells us that he rose from the dead.

 One minute version of what happened. 

Jesus showed that even death can be overcome when we trust in God and His love. The ancient book tells us that all we have to do is say sorry for the mess. People call this 'sin'. Anything that has fallen short of God's best for us is sin or mess. Believing God sent his son Jesus and saying sorry for the mess through a simple prayer is all it takes to be free from mess. Trusting that through Jesus we can become new creations, 'born' again into God's Kingdom leads us into a whole new world......

Are you ready to JUMP into God's Kingdom?

With a hop

Hop, skip and jump

Life is very simple really! There is an ancient book that I have found acts as a guide to life, infinity and the universe. I want to take you through this book with a hop, skip and a jump!
Are you ready?
High five! 

Let's hop in at the very beginning. The world was created by God. He spoke and it came into being!
Land, sky, trees, plants, sea, birds, fish, animals, trees, plants, and man.
What's your most favourite thing about the world we live in?
Hop around the room and name everything you can think of that you think is good and interesting about our world. 

God enjoyed man and His creation. It was GOOD! There was no badness in it. Because God created the world, He knew what was needed to keep the world a place of life and love. God knew that there needed to be absolute trust and love between Him and man. God told the man that he should not eat the fruit of one tree. The fruit from every other tree was available to eat but man needed to trust God that the fruit of this tree shouldn't eaten.

Something VERY sad happened. The man and woman began to doubt God and were tempted to eat the fruit of the forbidden tree. DISASTER struck!
From that moment on the world began to become messed up:-(
Now - thousands of years later the world has gradually gotten worse and worse. Today we live in a VERY messy world where bad things happen. Our world today is not like God's original creation.

God never intended there should be disease or sickness. God never intended there should be murder or hate. God never intended there should be poverty or wars where children are left homeless and orphaned.
Think of something sad that has happened to you or to someone you know. 
Realise that God never intended for there to be sadness!

BUT GOD......had a plan to fix the mess!

Let's skip on through the ancient book and find out what God's plan was.....