Scripture, summercamp and same-sex marriage
Dear friends, There’s lots going on in our church and there’s lots going on in our country, so I thought I’d mention a few of them: Scripture in Schools Imagine […]
Comfort, controversy and concern
Dear Friends, Who does not want to be comfortable? Who wants to be uncomfortable? Yet comfort is probably one of the great idols in the church today. A mother never […]
Halloween – remembering the holy ones
The night before November 1 is the evening before “All Saints Day”. So the word “halloween” means the evening (‘een’) before the day we remember the holy ones (‘hallow’). How […]
Staff comings and goings – part 2
Dear Friends, Part Two of our staff movements for 2018! Student Ministers Rebecca (and Dan) Antaw – Rebecca has been linked to the 5pm congregation and has done a wonderful […]
Staff comings and goings
Dear Friends, To keep you up to date with our staff movements, one of two letters on the latest information – this week Ministry and Administration Staff and next week […]
Great faith in the face of trouble
Dear Friends, I’ve been reading the wonderful diary of a Christian man, Douglas Taylor (who died in 2014) as he recorded his journey. Here is a section worth reading – […]
We have no idea what we are like or what God can do
Dear Friends, You will know the story of the live frog slowly cooked in a saucepan. I can hardly tell how high the worldly temperature has become in own life […]
Life words and death words
Dear friends, The words we say have huge impact for either good or ill. Proverbs 18:21 says that the tongue has the power of life and death. Words which we […]
The man who saved the world
The man who saved the world recently died at the age of 77. At the height of the Cold War Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov was stationed at a missile detection […]
The Yes / No marriage debate
One of our evening church members, in her first year of university, shared this on her Facebook feed. … The yes / no facebook page provides quality content. Whilst it […]
Flowchart: Christians and same sex marriage
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This is not the time to waste your vote
Dear Friends, As the letters arrive in our letterboxes to give us opportunity to vote on the change to marriage laws this is surely the time for Christians to stand […]