Advent Peace

Today is the second Sunday in Advent, and the theme for this week is peace. We live in a world where peace is a rare commodity. Families often are at enmity with each other; family feuds can last for years and lead to bickering, arguments and the cold result of...

Hope In God

Ps 42:5, 11 urges us to ‘put your hope in God.’ The psalmist is in a confused and bewildered place, feeling downcast and disturbed. Others ask him all day long, ‘Where is your God?’ (Ps 42;3), and we get the impression this is a difficult time...

Navigating Ingratitude

2 Samuel 10 tells the story of kindness that is received suspiciously and with mistrust, and what happens when war is chosen over peacemaking. David tries to show kindness to a foreign leader on the death of his father (Hanun, son of Nahash, king of the Ammonites),...

Light of the World

Tonight in our Little Big Church service, we looked again at the subject of light. We did science experiments involving prisms, shining light on them to reveal the different colours of the rainbow, and shining a torch on a glass of water to show how refraction makes...

Worthy Of His Calling

Garry spoke this morning from 2 Thessalonians 1:11-12, another of Paul’s prayers that God will make them ‘worthy of his calling.’ To be worthy of God’s calling means we must understand God calls us to repentance (Acts 17:29-31) so that we can...