Broken walls

Stephen’s recent DIY experiences in completely renovating the bathroom at home led to this sermon on broken walls, with Nehemiah 1:3 as the starting point for the sermon. In this book, Nehemiah is one of the people God uses to encourage and help Israel to...

Harvest Festival

This morning we held a joint service at Furlong Road Methodist Church in Bolton-on-Dearne and celebrated a harvest festival with our friends there.Getting the harvest display ready: Getting ready at the start of the service: Last year’s children’s slot...

Shooting adrenaline into the soul

“Do you see what this means—all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we’d better get on with it. Strip down, start running—and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both...

Faith without works

Rich Mullins wrote a song called ‘Screen Door’ on James 2:14-26, the passage we studied this week. It looks at the problem of faith without works and says ‘it’s about as useless as a screen door on a submarine’. You can listen to the song...

Lord of the Dance

The song ‘The Lord of the Dance’ was Mark’s inspiration for the family service last night. The song talks about Jesus being the Lord of the Dance: Lord at creation, bringing hope and joy and life to all when on earth and Lord even through death and...