The Bible

This evening at our Little Big Church service we discovered some facts about the Bible through a treasure hunt, including the fact that the word itself means ‘books’ and that there are actually 66 books in the Bible (39 in the Old Testament and 27 in the New.) We...

Christian Discipleship

Garry spoke this morning on discipleship as he continued looking at Paul’s prayer in Colossians 1:9-14. Discipleship is a form of apprenticeship, where an inexperienced person works alongside one who is more experienced in a trade. Knowledge and experience are...

PUSH!

The cry of the woman in labour is one of pain. She waits for the midwife to give the command to ‘push.’ Labour can be swift or can take hours, but when the time to push comes, birth is not far away. There is an acronym based on the word ‘push’...

Pilgrims

Tonight we looked at Psalm 84 and our identity as pilgrims. Last time we looked at the fact that we are blessed (a fact reinforced in Ps 84:4, 5, 12); for the psalmist, being blessed means being in God’s presence, dwelling in His house. A pilgrim (a traveller who...

The Other Side of Christmas

This morning Dave spoke on ‘the other side of Christmas.’ Christmas is often perceived as being sweet and familiar, but in Matt 2:16-18, we read of Herod’s murderous intentions towards the Messiah and see that the arrival of Jesus was not welcomed by...

Escalating Violence

2 Samuel 13 is as painful a chapter to read as 2 Samuel 11. In this chapter, we see the rape of David’s daughter, Tamar, by her half-brother, Amnon, and the murder of Amnon by his half-brother, Absalom, in revenge for this crime. We see others failing to stop these...