Poetic History

  Psalm 114 deals with the same history as many other historical psalms (chiefly the exodus, the most important event in Israel’s history), but does so in a very different way. Just eight verses long, the psalm does not mention God until near the end (the...

Pentecost Party

Today’s Pentecost Party at Houghton Road Centre, Thurnscoe had a number of craft activities (including making fruit kebabs as we considered the fruit of the Spirit.) Setting up the activities Since it was a birthday party, we had a cake (of sorts) –...

Filling and refilling

My little granddaughter has just discovered the wonders of water play. She will spend hours filling buckets, cups and jugs with water to tip this water somewhere else (often where it should not be tipped…) The process of filling and refilling, pouring and...

Jesus Christ Is Lord

Dave spoke tonight from Phil 2:5-11 about the most important statement the church ever makes: that Jesus Christ is Lord. This earliest creed has much to teach us. Paul focuses in these verses on how Jesus, both God and man, humbled himself to die on a cross and who...

The Blessings of Belonging

In our series ‘Battles & Blessings’, we looked at Eph 2:11-22, where Paul looks at the blessings derived from God’s plan to unite Jew and Gentile. In these verses, he reminds us of our position as Gentiles (‘separate from Christ, excluded...