Hope is a fuel that keeps people going. The people of God had been fuelled by God’s many promises in the Old Testament and by His acts of deliverance for them. Abraham had been fuelled by the hope of a son: the promise God had given him – ‘a son who is your own flesh...

Mark spoke this morning on the first Advent theme of hope, using the acrostic below to explain this: Heaven Opened Please Enter The Christian view of hope is not a desperate wish that God would do something, but a sure conviction, a positive action of our mind, that...

At James's baptism last night, Garry asked the question 'What's your profession?' Most of us are often introduced to others by our name and profession ('This is Garry; he's an engineer'), and so often our identity is bound up in our jobs (nurse, teacher, shop...