Thought for the Week

Having confidence in God

Sunday 8th January 2023 Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken. Psalm 55:2 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, What a wonderfully encouraging verse for the start of a new year!  How good it is to know that we are not alone, that we

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Immanuel – “God with us’

Sunday 25th December & Sunday 1st January And they will call him Immanuel, (which means ‘God with us’). Matthew 1:23 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, In our Christmas services this year we have been exploring Reasons Jesus Came, focusing on some of the verses where either Jesus himself or one of the New Testament writers...

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The songs of heaven

Sunday 18th December 2022 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favour rests.’ Luke 2:13-14 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Do you have a favourite Christmas carol?  If so, what

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Christ in you

Sunday 11th December 2022 Christ in you, the hope of glory. Colossians 1:27 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, It sounds good, a nice thing to have: ‘Christ in you.’  But what does it really mean?  What does it mean to have ‘Christ in you’?  And who, anyway, is this Christ that some people have in

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Paying Tribute to Jesus

4th December 2022 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light. 1 Peter 2:9 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, This week Helen and I went to see Australian Pink Floyd

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Seek after wisdom and guidance

Sunday 20th November 2022 Listen, my son, to you father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. Proverbs 1:8-9, NIV Dear Brothers and Sisters, The final chapter of Louise Perry’s startling book, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution –

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God’s good ways

13th November 2022  Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.   The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman’, for she was taken out of man.” That

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The wedding of the Lamb

I did not see a temple in the city,
  because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple.
 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it,
 for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
 Revelation 21:22-23 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters,

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Elect exiles

To God’s elect, exiles, scattered throughout the provinces… I Peter 1:1 (NIV) Who do you think you are?  How do you see yourself?  There is a lot of talk these days about identity, and it’s important.  It will determine how we conduct our lives and how we deal with what comes our way.  Now, part

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Children of God

For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. Romans 8:29 (NIV) Dear Brothers and Sisters, I didn’t expect still to be reflecting on the state funeral of Her Majesty the Queen, but there are many things

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