July dates

Whilst the holiday season is upon some of us, there are still things happening in Goldthorpe in July! Apart from the usual meetings at church, there are special meetings at other local churches coming up. On Saturday 4th July between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the Salvation...

Sing a new song

Ps 96:1 tells us ‘ Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth’ (a command repeated in Ps 98:1 and Ps 149:1.) This promises to be a great summer of new songs for the Lord. Matt Redman’s album ‘Unbroken Praise’ was...

Bokeh

I learnt a new word at the weekend, and as always was very excited about this fact! That word was ‘bokeh’, and relates in particular to photography, apparently meaning ‘the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image...

The Gifts of the Spirit

Dave spoke last night from 1 Cor 14, continuing our focus on the person and work of the Holy Spirit. Often, there are two extremes we feel concerning spiritual gifts, either believing we are deficient because we do not speak in tongues, for example, or believing that...

God is on our side!

Our series on the Songs of Ascent looked at Ps 124 this morning, a psalm which looks hazards squarely in the face and declares ‘our help is in the name of the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.’ (Ps 124:8) It’s unequivocal in listing some of the...