Moving on

Mark’s recent sermon on Terah spoke of the need to keep pressing on in God, not being satisfied with stopping at the halfway point but continuing to journey’s end. I recently heard this song (‘I Will Go’) from Kutless, which seems to me to...

Overcome

 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33) ‘You can’t see a way, then a mountain moves, Skies are lonely grey, then the sun breaks through, When...

Advent Musings

On Sunday we gave the children in church a chocolate advent calendar to help them wait for Christmas, one day (and one chocolate!) at a time. Advent is that period of waiting before Christmas when it’s good to tune our hearts to sing God’s praise and focus our...

Different crowns

Stephen started tonight’s sermon with a history question, asking who knew the significance of the date 2 June 1953. This was the date of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation: Tonight’s sermon was about crowns. When we think about crowns, we might think of...

Inexpressible Joy

Dave spoke this morning from 1 Pet 1:6-9, continuing his series on the fruit of the Spirit by looking at the fruit of joy. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is a gift from God which cannot be earned, simply received, and its purpose is to give us the power to witness to...