October 28, 2011
Sometimes life is tough. Sometimes circumstances and occurrences are put in our path that cause the normal, everyday things of life to fade into the background or stop all together. We become crushed under the weight of emotion; anger, fear, worry, rage, stress and depression clog up the normal workings of body and mind to ...
September 20, 2011
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. Ephesians 2:8-10 Grace demands the freely given gift. If we had ...
July 1, 2011
NOT simply our own welfare.Although that is often part of our purpose, Jesus taught his disciples to pray “give us this day our daily bread”. If it’s true of our material needs it’s no less true of our spiritual needs. Prayer for ourselves is clearly an important part of Jesus teaching but why it is ...
May 20, 2011
It’s common now to hear the call to keep religion private. Out of schools, out of work and out of public life altogether.Evangelism is frowned upon and we’re encouraged to a kind of private piety, to keep God in a little box, only to be opened at home and in church. In Mark 10:35-45 James ...