February prayer – outreach

We continue to believe that prayer fuels every activity of the church and that without God’s Spirit breathing life into every activity, nothing of lasting value will be achieved. Throughout February, we will be praying in particular for outreach: the outreaches...

The Medium of Grace

My favourite animal is the hippopotamus. After the elephant and rhinoceros, the hippopotamus is the third-largest type of land mammal, and I suspect my love of this animal has much to do with its ungainliness on land compared to its grace in water. I think I probably...

Obstacles to prayer

Mark’s sermon last night on prayer faced the fact that there are times, of course, when the promises in Luke 11:9-13 do not seem to be very real to us. Obviously, if we are demanding things from God, we may well be disappointed with His answers, for He is able...

Ask, seek, knock

Mark spoke on the subject of prayer last night from Luke 11:9-13. He started by talking about the X Factor, saying that many of us feel you need to have a certain level of goodness before you can come to God, just like the contestants on the X Factor need to have a...

Being productive

Garry spoke this morning from 2 Peter 1:3-8, looking at how God’s plan is for us to be productive. Gal 5:22-24 lists the fruit of the Spirit which God wants to develop in our characters. For this fruit to grow, however, we have to crucify the old nature, which...

Churches Together

Unity is a great thing and we are thankful to be able to work with different churches in our local area. Tonight, we all met at the Salvation Army church in Goldthorpe for the first ‘Churches Together’ meeting of 2014. It was great to worship and pray...