The Other Christmas

Dave spoke tonight about ‘the other Christmas’, from Matt 2:16-18. It’s easy to forget Christmas once the New Year starts, but Matthew’s Gospel focuses on what happened next. There is no mention in that gospel of the journey to Bethlehem or the...

A Passion That Pursues The Purpose of God

Yan Hadley spoke this morning from Phil 3:13 about a passion that pursues the purpose of God. We are not meant to spend our lives looking back, but should be straining forward towards God, living for Him with a zeal which reflects His (see Is 9:6-7, John 2:17)....

Evening & Morning

The Jewish day does not begin at midnight, as ours does, but at sunset, based on the Biblical account of creation: ‘and there was evening, and there was morning’, a phrase repeated throughout the six days of creation (Gen 1:3, 8, 13,19, 23,31). We might...

Trustworthy And True

I was never a big fan of politicians, but the past two years have eroded any residual trust I had in these people. Their policies, outright lies and obfuscation of truth have left me cynical and untrusting, and it’s sad that these feelings can often be transferred to...