Sing and shout!

Kevin’s recent sermon Give Praise To God has really stirred my heart. I’ve always enjoyed praising God and have long since realised that this is something that is necessary at all times, on the road marked with suffering, to quote Matt Redman, as well as...

Gold nugget #1: God is enough

The first gold nugget of truth I have discovered in thirty years of being a child of God is that ‘God is enough’. I’ve spent a lot of time pondering the ‘God is…’ and the ‘I am…’ statements and I can fill in the list with all kinds of truths I’ve discovered:•...

Gold nuggets of truth

Throughout October, I will be blogging a ‘gold nugget of truth’ each day, for this is the month when I celebrate my 30th birthday. I won’t be standing on the birthday box at church, but it’s 30 years this month since I first gave my life to Christ and in thirty years,...

Prayer topic for October

The prayer topic for October is unity of believers.Jesus said, “I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one – I in them and you in me – so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and...

Surrender as the pathway to freedom

To close the evening service, we sang the song ‘White Flag’. The title and the theme of the song is obvious: surrender. The symbolism of this surrender is waving a white flag. In military terms, the white flag is an internationally recognised protective...