Darkness & Light

by | Jan 28, 2018 | What's Happening

We all prefer message which are encouraging and uplifting, but the gospel deals with, and explains, the reality of a world that is full of darkness. ‘The dark side’ is a reality which we cannot ignore. Jesus is the Light of the world (Jn 8:12), but in this...

Every Spiritual Blessing

by | Jan 28, 2018 | What's Happening

Eph 1:3-14 is a marvellous list of all the spiritual blessings God has already freely given to His people. So often, we struggle to believe God wants to bless us, partly because we have wrong ideas about blessing (assuming these must be only material blessings or...

The Mystery of Suffering

by | Jan 25, 2018 | What's Happening

Psalm 22 tackles the question of the mystery of suffering as the psalmist cries out, ‘My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?’ (Ps 22:1) Constant crying out initially seems to produce no answer (Ps 22:2); the psalm tackles that sense of abandonment and alienation...