Sin and cleansing

Tonight in our ‘Little Big Church’ we looked at the subject of sin and cleansing. Sometimes it’s hard to see sin and we are not always aware that it is present in our lives. Sin is taking a wrong turn, doing things that God does not like, missing the...

Be alert!

One of the things Paul tells us about prayer is the need to stay alert. Prayer can be hard work; in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus entered into a time of prayer, a time of fellowship, a time of communion with His Father, but He also asked the other disciples to ‘stay...

The Blessing of Prayer

We’ve been looking for some time at the blessings found in the book of Ephesians and today looked at the blessing of prayer (Eph 6:18-20). The armour of God gives us all we need to be protected in the battles of life and the sword of the Spirit and prayer are...

Hearing & Heeding

Every time we meet with God, we have an opportunity to hear and to heed Him. God is a God who loves to speak with us. Samuel learnt to hear God from an early age (1 Sam 3:1-14). One of the names of Jesus is ‘the Word’ (John 1:1-3) and the writer to the...

Mosaic Creativity

Today we hosted the Dearne Community Arts’ Festival mosaic project. As part of the festival’s remit to champion creativity and celebrate community, a community mosaic is being created which was started today. Artist Ruth Waterworth made a design for us to...

Reflexive Verbs

A reflexive verb is where the subject of the verb is the same as the object – or, in other words, where the person (subject) doing the action (verb) is the same as the person receiving the action (object). In English, we usually add -self to show this: ‘I...