Obedience

Garry spoke this morning from Phil 2:12-13, commenting on how obedience is a key ingredient to working out our salvation. God gives us many commandments (rules) to guide and guard us. So often, we perceive obedience negatively, viewing it as restrictions, but actually...

Igor’s Welsh Adventures

Igor (injured, alas, from his endless adventures) has been to Wales. He explored an adventure park aptly named ‘Greenwood Forest’: He eyed up swans and cygnets at Llanfairfechan: He wasn’t overly impressed with the animals at the Welsh Mountain Zoo,...

The Secret Place (2)

Last week, before our holiday, we had a music practice at church where we were learning the Phil Wickham song ‘The Secret Place.’ Coming back from holiday and reading Dave’s sermon notes reminded me of the absolute need for there to be no difference...

The Difference Jesus Makes

Dave spoke from Acts 4:8-14 on Sunday evening, and as we read of Peter’s amazing witness and testimony which caused the Sanhedrin to be astonished (and ‘took note that they had been with Jesus’), we see quite clearly how the power of the Holy Spirit...

Great minds…!

There is a saying ‘great minds think alike’ (with the ending ‘while fools seldom differ’…), and a recent visit to Chester Cathedral made me smile: This is another ‘alphabet of faith’, with Jesus Christ firmly at the centre (it...