A Community Church

One of the conditions of the CRT grant which saw us move into Market Street was that we were involved in community, and so we changed the church’s name to reflect our heart for the local community, becoming Goldthorpe Pentecostal Community Church. We had always been...

Remembering

Deuteronomy 8:18 urges God’s people to ‘remember the Lord your God.’ It’s so easy in the hustle and bustle of life, in the everyday busyness which surrounds most of us, to forget what God has done for us, and if we forget, we become impoverished spiritually. This...

Kindness

Our Bible study tonight focussed on the fruit of the Spirit kindness. Kindness is sorely needed in a world that seems intent on shouting loudly at those with differing opinions, but God’s kindness fuels actions. God has drawn us with loving kindness (Jer 31:3),...

We Are The Clay

This morning we looked at the fact that God is the Potter and we are the clay (see Is 64:8, Jer 18:1-7, 2 Cor 4:7) God is the One who shapes and moulds us to His image, re-forming us when we fail and let Him down, never giving up on us. To be clay seems to be an...

Truth

We live in a world where people believe in ‘relative’ truth. ‘If that’s what you feel, it’s true for you,’ people say. This is often a cover for nonsense, for truth is not some flimsy feeling which can be bent to our will. Yesterday...