The Centrality of the Cross

The message Paul preached was based on the centrality of the cross: ‘we preach Christ crucified… to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.’ (1 Cor 1:23-24) Later he says ‘I resolved to know...

God’s Wisdom and Strength

Tonight’s Bible study looked at 1 Cor 1:18-25, where Paul reminds the Corinthians of the centrality of the cross, a message which makes no sense at all to the Jews or Gentiles but which ultimately reveals God’s ways of working. The message of Christ...

Finally Home

Paul reminds the Philippians, ‘But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Saviour from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like...

Close Encounters of the God Kind

Mark’s sermon tonight looked initially at ‘close encounters’. Close encounters of the first kind relate to the sighting of UFOs. Close encounters of the second kind relate to some sort of physical evidence that something has been there. Close...

The only serious mistake…

Eugene Peterson, in commenting on Psalm 121, remarks ‘the only serious mistake we can make when illness comes, when anxiety threatens, when conflict disturbs our relationships with others is to conclude that God has got bored of looking after us… or that God has...