Watering Can or Fire Extinguisher?

by | Jul 11, 2017 | What's Happening

I’m no gardener. It’s safe to say every plant given to me as a present has ended up dead at my hands: never deliberately, but I just never seem to get the hang of when to water and how much to water. I’ve killed plants by over-watering them;...

Thoughts on Prayer

by | Jul 9, 2017 | What's Happening

Leonard Ravenhill gives us sobering words to ponder about prayer: ‘No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organisers, but few agonisers; many players and payers,...

The Lord’s Prayer

by | Jul 9, 2017 | What's Happening

Jesus gave us a framework for prayer in the Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:9-15, Luke 11:1-4), whichhighlights common factors in prayer: Prayer is addressed to God, not to people. It is a lifting up of our soul to God (Ps 25:1), a pouring out of our hearts to God. (Ps...

P Is For Prayer

by | Jul 9, 2017 | What's Happening

In our series on the ‘A-Z of Christian Faith’, we have reached the letter P: P is for Prayer. Prayer is our ability to communicate with the Almighty God and can involve personal prayer and corporate prayer. It can involve words (Jesus is described as...