Like we have to ask? Yet acknowledging our frailty and wretched condition is essential for a walk of continuing strengthening and refining with our Maker.

A question that should be close to every human heart.

An attempt to answer an impossible question, or to introduce and expound on the concept and person(s) of God.

After the epic, nine month exhortation from the Book of John, and in concordance with the new blessing of an unofficial home, a prayerfully shorter series on Christianity and Biblical basics, all for the glory of God.

From the first HQ in Lynfield to an HQ and Church in Piha, Auckland. The First Church of Carpe Crucis is, not coincidentally, the first church in this growing community, a place in surprisingly dire need of salvation.
It is the work of the Holy Spirit of God that we are about, and without Him it will not prosper, but we set ourselves towards the prize that the Lord has offered and proffered for all who would receive.
The current place of preaching in the church is in the gutter outside the property. Join us in prayer, and giving where possible, that the church may be built and established for the glory of God, for the fellowship of the saints and as a gateway into the Kingdom of Heaven for the lost, poor, broken, lowly, sick, afflicted and afraid according to God's riches and mercy in Glory, through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus, who is the Christ.

And so it ends! Nine months of preaching from the gospel of John. Onwards and upwards, a word on the close from the gospel, and perhaps its most famous story.

Coming to the conclusion of this gospel's exegesis, and the zenith of the Christian message; Christ risen. Overcoming sin and the grave, now in divine power and glory, fully God revealed. The Ark opened. Eyes opened. A world changed irredeemably forever. Glory hallelujah!

All creation catches its breath. The sign, "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum", is placed at the head of the Cross. "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews." The betrayal is complete, the Devil licks his lips at the thought and taste of victory, the destruction of the Son of God by the hand of Israel's cruel oppressor... Oh Death, where is Your sting!?

The Roman procurator, Pontius Pilate, charged by his Roman masters with keeping the peace of this troublesome territory, faces a most perplexing challenge, namely the Sanhedrin's vehement betrayal of a seemingly innocent man. 

After the hard words of the previous sermon, the joy of the Holy Spirit prevails to make all things new, for His glory alone.