The last in our series looking at who God is, the story of the Bible and how we can live in relationship with God. Here we are confronted with the challenge of telling the story to others. The gospels give a compelling account of the ministry and mission of Jesus, Son of God, Saviour of […]
Peter spoke powerfully and passionately to a large crowd of people about the injustice that had caused Jesus to die but also that it was in God’s plan and that God had raised Jesus back to life. And, in response, the people were “cut to the heart” and wanted to know what they should do. […]
In John 13, shortly before He goes to the cross, Jesus demonstrates a loving commitment to His disciples as he stoops down and washes their feet. He also uses it as an opportunity to speak about the need for daily cleansing from sin to maintain our relationship with Him. The disciples would have been shocked, […]
The example of the early church in Acts 2:41-47 is one of living in community together – in relationship with God and with each other. They spent time together reflecting on God’s word, in prayer, in reminding themselves of the death & resurrection of Jesus. They looked out for each other, they cared for each […]
Choosing to accept the invitation of Jesus to follow Him changes the rest of our lives – and one of those changes is that God sends His Holy Spirit to live in us, which is an amazing thought! He comes to give life, to help us know Jesus better, to guide us, to transform us […]
As we have thought about the big story of the Bible and the great Author behind it we are now confronted with the question of how we can become part of this big story, how we can relate to this author. And in Mark 8:31-38 we see that it involves God acting in the suffering, […]
Continuing the series of “God, the Bible and Us”, this week we take a closer look at Jesus, Son of God and ask the question, “What about you? Who do you say Jesus is?”
We continue in our series under the title ‘God, the Bible and us, as we look at the nature and work of God the Father, based on a reading in 1 John 4:7-15. In response to recent startling revelations as to who his real father was, and asked why he seemed so calm and unruffled […]
This morning we start to look at “the author” of the big story we thought about a couple of weeks ago – the person that the Bible speaks about as God. And we each will have our own ideas about who God is (assuming we believe that such a person exists) but I wonder how […]