God Doesn’t Do Makeovers

  Mark spoke this morning from Psalm 23:3 (‘He restores my soul’) and commented that God doesn’t do makeovers… He is interested in soul restoration instead. Makeovers tend to focus on the external, looking at beauty treatments,...

Evicting Tenants

I have never been a landlord in the conventional sense of the word, but I have known people who own and manage properties and have come to realise there are all kinds of tenants, ranging from the near-perfect-causing-no-problems ones to the ones whose behaviour leaves...

Anchoring Suffering

Suffering is all around us and is both bewildering and confusing, leaving us feeling emotionally wrecked. When suffering hits us, we often reel, confused by how to reconcile our belief in a merciful, benevolent, loving God with the difficult things that knock us down...

The Cure For Discouragement

If we are to overcome discouragement, we need to apply Biblical principles to help us rise above this deadly disease. 1. Rest your body. Sleep is essential to good health and is a gift from God. (Ps 4:8) We need to be careful not to burn the candle at both ends and...

The Characteristics of Discouragement

What does discouragement look like?   Discouragement can be seen in different ways, in our: Motivation. Prov 17:22 reminds us that a downcast spirit dries up the bones; it has an effect on us physically. When we are discouraged, it is easy to lose the motivation...

The Deadly Disease of Discouragement

Yan Hadley spoke tonight on the ‘deadly disease of discouragement’. Discouragement is like a virus which may start out in small ways but which is very contagious and can easily lead to depression and despair. In Num 13:31-33, we see how the spies coming...