This weekend

Advent officially begins on Sunday 30th November and this period is one full of anticipation and expectation as we prepare for Christmas and remember our Lord’s arrival in Bethlehem as a baby and anticipate His second coming in glory as King and Ruler of all!...

Sin and protection

1 John 5:16-17 contain some of the most disputed verses in the New Testament. John, in urging us to pray for others, talks about ‘sin that leads to death’ and ‘sin that does not lead to death’. Interpretations of these verses have varied over...

Answered prayer

Tonight’s Bible study looked at 1 John 5:13-18. Strictly speaking, verse 13 belongs more to the previous section, when John is writing about the testimony God has, namely that life is in the Son. His aim in writing is that we may know we have eternal life. Once...

We Believe

Those of you who remember the series on the Apostles’ Creed will know that our church thinks it’s important that we know what believe! Newsboys’ song ‘We Believe’ is another attempt to put what we believe to music and help us to...

To be a pilgrim

Every year there is one book (apart from the Bible, of course!) to which I regularly return. Its title in my version is ‘The Journey’, though in America I believe it was published with the title (a quotation from Nietzsche I have always relished) ‘A...