Trials, temptation and the character of God

At the Bible study this week we looked at James 1:12-18. Here, James continues to tell us how to persevere through trials and temptations. The first thing we must not do is blame God. It’s human nature to want to blame someone else when we do wrong (see Adam and...

Faith overcomes barriers

Dave preached from Matt 15:21-28 on the faith of the Canaanite woman last night, in a sermon that continued the theme of obstacles or barriers and how faith is needed to overcome these. In this passage, Jesus appears abrupt and unwilling to help the woman who comes to...

June birthdays

June is obviously the month for birthdays, since we had three to celebrate last night at church (and one to come, as one lady was away last night!)We hope all will have great days to celebrate this week!

Keep On Going

Kevin spoke from John 14:1-7 this morning, talking about the goal we have in life and the perseverance that is needed by all of us. Our goal is to be heaven-bound, for as Jesus told His disciples, He is going to prepare a place for us. Peter tells us that the goal of...

Bible summary

I recently came across a blog where someone has summarised each book of the Bible Twitter-style (i.e. each summary must be 140 characters or less. “In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly...