Somewhere over the rainbow

Judy Garland sang ‘Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.’ Mark took this theme as he continued his study on Joseph this morning, speaking from Genesis 42:1-24. Genesis 42 begins with the time...

Corrosion

Corrosion is the gradual destruction of materials (usually metals) by chemical reaction with the environment and the most common example of this is rusting. Rusting (more formally the oxidation of metals such as iron) takes place when the metal reacts with the oxygen...

Living in the Promises of God

Stephen spoke last night on ‘living in the promises of God’, challenging us all to take hold of the many promises God has for us rather than living complacently in the status quo. Josh 1:8 gives us the secret to success (keeping God’s Word in our...

Rebuilding for God

John spoke this morning from Nehemiah 4 on rebuilding for God. Nehemiah had undertaken the tremendous endeavour of rebuilding Jerusalem’s walls because of God’s calling to do this, a task which took him out of his comfort zone. When God is in control of...

On data entry…

Bleary-eyed and with blurry vision from a day spent inputting data into various tables and charts, I am acutely aware of how our lives are made up of numbers. Pupils in a school are identified by a candidate number, a UCI (unique candidate indicator, which is not so...

Amen!

Mark spoke tonight on the word ‘Amen’, a word we use frequently in prayer or to affirm something someone has said. Apart from being an encouragement to preachers (or at least an affirmation that people are listening!), the word is defined as meaning to...