Anniversary celebrations

As we put the finishing touches to the photo display for our anniversary celebration on Saturday 5 July between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m., we are blown away by all that has happened in the fifteen years since we moved to Market Street. GPCC (formerly Goldthorpe Elim Church)...

Patience

Tonight our Bible discussion was about patience (forbearance/ long-suffering), another fruit of the Spirit. Patience is not something most of us find easy; it obviously requires a change of attitude and trust in God to believe that His will will be done in our lives,...

God-seekers

This morning we looked at our identity as ‘God-seekers’. In Psalm 27:8, David declares that the one thing he needs is to seek God’s face. To seek God means to put Him first, something we need to do both individually and corporately. We must learn to...

Another David Song

In 2 Samuel 22, we saw David the psalmist proclaiming God’s deliverance and salvation. At the start of 2 Samuel 23, we see another song of David, this time one written towards the end of his life, when he speaks ‘divine utterance’, knowing that the Spirit of God is...

The Fatherhood of God

Dave spoke this morning on the fatherhood of God (see 1 Cor 4:15, 1 John 1:1-3). Human fathers often influence our thinking and how we live enormously. Jesus often referred to God as His father and encouraged us to pray to ‘our Father’. A family...