Sunday 6th October 2024 Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but those who are ill. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mark 2:17 (NIV) A vital question “Which do our churches most represent: a group of people waiting for a job interview or those
Read moreSunday 29thSeptember 2024 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 (NIV) Sleep well Have you noticed that the New Testament often speaks of believers ‘falling asleep’ when they die (as in the verse
Read moreSunday 22nd September 2024 Jesus called out with a loud voice, ‘Father, into your hands I commit my spirit’ While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, ‘Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.’ Luke 23:46, Acts 7:59 (NIV) How to die well I remember the Australian evangelist John Chapman used to say that one way to bring
Read moreSunday 15th September 2024 To all God’s holy people in Christ Jesus at Philippi Philippians 1:1 (NIV) Be a saint We tend to think of saints being special Christians, which is perhaps due in part to the practice of ‘canonisation’ in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, where a dead person is admitted into
Read moreSunday 8th September 2024 The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. Hebrews 1:3 (NIV) Here We Go Again! Do you ever have that ‘Here we go again’ feeling, as you brace yourself for what lies ahead? Perhaps you feel it
Read moreSunday 1st September 2024 For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say ‘No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age … Titus 2:11-12 (NIV) Real Christianity My brother sent me a recent article from The
Read moreSunday 25th August 2024 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 (NIV) The Olympics and the Gospel Ashley Null is an unusual character. He is an
Read moreSunday 18th August 2024 Persevere in Prayer One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”… …5 Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose you have a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say, ‘Friend, lend
Read moreSunday 11th August 2024 It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, proclaiming your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night, to the music of the ten-stringed lyre and the melody of the harp. For you make me glad by your deeds, Lord; I sing for joy at what your hands
Read moreSunday 4th August 2024 And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne God. Hebrews 12:1b-2 (NIV) The
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