Musings on Mosaics

As part of the Dearne Community Arts’ Festival’s mission to champion creativity and celebrate community, we will be hosting a ‘mosaic workshop’ on Saturday 1st June between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. (The picture below is illustrative only – the...

The Pentecostal Challenge

We are a Pentecostal church and as such, we believe in the person, ministry and gifts of the Holy Spirit as one of the blessings God wants to give to every one of His children. It’s one thing to believe in these things, though, and another to experience them. As we...

The Blessing of the Holy Spirit (2)

Paul wants us to be wise and not unwise (Eph 5:15). He names areas where wisdom needs to be seen: in our attitudes to time and to what we actually spend our time doing. He urges us to ‘make the most of every opportunity’ (Eph 5:17), which older translations translate...

The Blessing of the Holy Spirit

This morning we continued the series ‘Battles & Blessings’, looking at Eph 5:1-20 and the blessing of the Holy Spirit, God’s precious gift to us. In this chapter, Paul reminds the Ephesians that the new life they have received in Jesus Christ...

Questions to Ponder

When we study the Bible, the living Word of God, we do so in the expectation that God will speak to us today. We may learn much of history, geography, sociology and theology from the Bible, but its primary purpose is to shape us into the image of Christ as it reveals...