The Extraordinary God

The truth is that God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things, as Peter demonstrates in Acts 9:32-42. The healing and resurrection we see there are not because of Peter’s strength or power. They are evidence of God’s strength and power, that He is a God of the...

The Ordinary People

The book of Acts is a tale of miraculous, extraordinary stories, and Acts 9:32-43 is no exception; in this passage, the apostle Peter is seen healing a paralysed man named Aeneas and raising a woman (Tabitha or Dorcas) from the dead. It’s easy to feel daunted by these...

Better Than…

At our recent Team Building Day, we were offered the challenge of explaining the gospel using a random object: a newspaper, a torch, a piece of string and so on. As we rose to that challenge, Gemma commented that she could think of a Christian song in relation to most...

Making Choices

At our ‘Little Big Church’ service tonight, Garry looked at the subject of choices. Sometimes, a choice has a right or wrong answer: the children were asked to decide which was the heaviest book… … or the longest piece of string… With...

Deepening The Connections

It’s not easy, in our busy schedules and tendency to live very isolated lives, to be part of a community that is knitted together in love. Even when we are a part of a local church, we can still avoid deep connections, afraid to open ourselves to other people...