Children of God

Phil Wickham’s new album ‘Children of God’ was released on Friday and arrived at our house today, much to my joy. The title track revels in our identity in Christ: ‘we are believers – all our hope in the Risen One; we are soldiers –...

Nourishing and Cherishing

Mike Bickle, in his comprehensive commentary on the book of Song of Songs, says ‘Jesus cherishes the church in order to take the stain of sin out of her soul’ and goes on to say ‘nourishing and cherishing is God’s method to change people… All of the Lord’s discipline...

D is for Desire

Tonight’s sermon continued the alphabet series (The A-Z of Christian Faith) and looked at the subject ‘D is for Desire.’ We can rightly talk about the need for us to hunger and thirst for God and develop a spiritual desire, but ultimately, we love because God first...

The Goodness of God

Dave spoke this morning on the goodness of God as he looked at goodness as a fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23).  Most of us like to think of ourselves as fundamentally good people, but God’s word reminds us that only God is good and that the fruit of the Spirit...

Understanding spiritual gifts

Garry concluded his mini-series on spiritual gifts (1 Cor 12:1-11), looking at the diversity of the gifts and the fact that these are used in proportion to our faith (see Rom 12:6-8). There is, perhaps, a difference between speaking in tongues at the baptism of the...