The Battle For Holiness

This morning’s sermon continued our ‘Battles and Blessings’ series, looking at how Joshua dealt with the challenge of leading God’s people into the Promised Land. Moses was dead and he was given the job of leading the people of Israel (see Josh 1:2=6); now, having...

June notices

As we gallop towards the halfway point in the year, there is a lot planned for June! Next weekend (3/4 June) is the Pentecost weekend, when we celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit on the church in power (see Acts 2). We will be joining in a ‘Churches...

Three Views

Three views that shape our identity: Our own nature: what we believe about ourselves Other people: what they believe about us God: the only truly unbiased opinion we will ever know If we are lucky, we start life with people cooing and comforting, telling us we are...

Major and minor keys

In music, there is a connection between major keys (which tend to sound brighter and more cheerful) and minor keys (which tend to sound more melancholy.) This connection is described as ‘relative’; thus, A minor is the relative minor of C major and E minor...

How Do We See God?

Stephen asked us to consider how we see God tonight. For those who are not Christians, their view of God may well be tainted by their view of what they perceive to be irrelevant church doctrine or even by their view of individual Christians who may be perceived as...