Good morning.

So let me pray.

Father, we thank you for your life-giving word and your Spirit who enables us to hear those words and be changed.

Father, we pray for a work of your Spirit in our hearts and minds this morning, so we would become more like your Son, Jesus.

In whose name we pray.

Amen.

Hi, good morning.

I'm Liam, one of the elders here at SOMA, and on behalf of the elders, a warm welcome to you if you are visiting us this week for Back to Church Sunday.

It's great to have you.

It's a pleasure for me to be asked to bring God's word forward this morning.

As Eleanor explained, we're in a series, Rhythms of the Day, thinking about rhythms that can help us be formed in light of Christ, as opposed to being formed by our culture, which is happening to us in so many ways that we perhaps don't recognize or fully appreciate.

So over the past four weeks or so, Toby has been very helpfully taking us on a journey of better understanding the impact of our culture on our hearts and our minds and how it can so easily drag us away from the heart and the mind of Christ.