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...

Talking to yourself

Talking to yourself outloud has often been interpreted as the first sign of madness and we may feel uncomfortable about the whole topic of talking to ourselves. It’s far more likely there is an internal conversation going on within us; sometimes we’re not...