Sunday 22nd January 2023 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge
Read moreSunday 15th January 2023 Dear Brothers and Sisters, I hope it is not too late to commend to you a prayer you may usefully pray at the start of this new year. It comes from The Valley of Vision, a collection of Puritan prayers and devotions which I would highly recommend. These lines are taken
Read moreSunday 8th January 2023 Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. Psalm 55:2 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, What a wonderfully encouraging verse for the start of a new year! How good it is to know that we are not alone, that we
Read moreSunday 25th December & Sunday 1st January And they will call him Immanuel, (which means ‘God with us’). Matthew 1:23 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our Christmas services this year we have been exploring Reasons Jesus Came, focusing on some of the verses where either Jesus himself or one of the New Testament writers...
Read moreSunday 18th December 2022 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.’ Luke 2:13-14 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Do you have a favourite Christmas carol? If so, what
Read moreSunday 11th December 2022 Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, It sounds good, a nice thing to have: ‘Christ in you.’ But what does it really mean? What does it mean to have ‘Christ in you’? And who, anyway, is this Christ that some people have in
Read more4th December 2022 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. 1 Peter 2:9 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, This week Helen and I went to see Australian Pink Floyd
Read moreSunday 20th November 2022 Listen, my son, to you father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. Proverbs 1:8-9, NIV Dear Brothers and Sisters, The final chapter of Louise Perry’s startling book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution –
Read more13th November 2022 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman’, for she was taken out of man.” That
Read moreI did not see a temple in the city, because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp. Revelation 21:22-23 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters,
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