Nicodemus

Tonight Garry spoke about Nicodemus, a man who features several times in John’s Gospel, most notably in John 3:1-21, one of the most famous parts of the whole Bible. Nicodemus was a Jewish leader living in troublesome times under Roman occupation, and the idea...

We are the body of Christ

This morning, we looked at our identity as the body of Christ (see 1 Cor 12:12-31, Rom 12:4-8). We marvelled at the human body, with its 206 bones, 78 organs, 8,000 taste buds, 30 trillion cells and 60,000 miles of blood arteries, and reflected on how we are all...

The Raw Ingredients of Christmas

This morning we gathered to sing carols, celebrate Christ’s birth and think about the raw ingredients of Christmas. For most of us, food and presents form an integral and essential part of the Christmas festivities, but the Christmas story is not simply about...

The First Day of Christmas

Today is the first day of Christmas, the end of Advent. Happy Christmas to all! What I find interesting in our current society is that this day is seen as an end, whereas historically (and in the Christian calendar, certainly) it is seen as a beginning. Christmas...