By challenge here I am referring to anything that stretches our faith. Some challenges can be exciting, some daunting, all are within the permissive will of a loving heavenly Father, who expresses His confidence in us over and over again in the scriptures. Well, in fact He expresses His confidence in Christ in us, and […]
The psalmist in Psalm 118:24 writes ‘This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it’. It sounds so simple doesn’t it? So often however the joy and rejoicing in our ‘today’ is spoilt by intrusive thoughts about my ‘yesterdays’, concerns for today itself, and worries about my […]
Yesterday we were thanking the Lord that He is our Prince of peace and that He brings His shalom into our lives. Today we are looking at the amazing truth that we as God’s children are called to bring that peace into our sore and hurting world. In what is known as the sermon on […]
It is fascinating to me that in our increasingly secular society, there is nevertheless a deep hunger for many of the attributes of our God. I was thinking today about ‘peace’, and what a high value is placed on finding peace in our busy and frenetic world. There are many differing uses and contexts for […]
It is so easy, in life, to notice difference isn’t it? and sometimes ‘difference’ can be very threatening. It can even lead us to judge or criticise others. When those differences are within our own community however, be that church or work, family or peer group, and those people who are different to us are […]
I am so thankful today that our God is so, so patient. It is a beautiful quality and one that we need to find in Him daily. How do we know that He is patient? Well it is one of the nine fruits of the spirit, and so if it is something that the Holy […]
Yesterday, we were looking at the amazing truth that God’s Kingdom will last forever and ever, and that thanking God for that truth can make the uncertainties and the changes happening all around us in our world today, seem far less threatening, In that same prayer Jesus also told His disciples to pray to the […]
I was struck this morning by the words at the end of the Lord’s prayer, ‘forever and ever Amen’. I guess I’ve always been excited by the previous words, ‘Yours is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory’ – especially when praying into a difficult situation- and I’ve not really dwelt on those last […]
Jesus gave His disciples a road map for taking His Kingdom into the world and it was very simple. He said go where you are welcomed, receive what they offer you, see what need they have and release blessing into that need and then you can tell them that the Kingdom of God is near. […]
This year in lockdown has been – ‘spiritually speaking’ – a bit like crossing a desert on a camel when we are used to travelling down motorways in cars. By that I mean that our familiar land marks are no longer there, we can no longer take a quick car ride and find others to […]