Advent activities

Tonight we had a quiz (with an ingeniously designed scoring method whereby baby Jesus moved from heaven to earth!) which involved questions about Christmas, singing activities and an egg and spoon race! Many of the questions proved difficult to answer! – but in...

Advent Arrivals

Garry spoke tonight on the subject of ‘Advent Arrivals’, starting with a game of ‘word association’ to illustrate the point that nowadays when most of us think of ‘Advent’, the next word we think of is ‘calendar’! For...

Every Spiritual Blessing

Eph 1:3 reminds us of the spiritual nature of God’s blessing. Sin has affected the world so much that it is now under a curse, and God’s blessing directly relates to the overcoming of this curse (see Gal 2:13-14). Romans 8 perhaps shows us the effect of all God...

What Blessing Is Not…

Many of us struggle to believe that God wants to bless us because we have wrong ideas about what blessing looks like. God is not Father Christmas, doling out presents to us whenever we ask for them. Blessing is not like advertising hype which promises much and...