God likes mountains! In the NIV the Bible mentions mountains 308 times and hills 237 times and that doesn’t include specific mountains such as…
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“What must I do to be saved?” “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.” The story so far. In our morning…
From the earliest days of the church the Book of the prophet Isaiah was known as “the Fifth Gospel” or “the Gospel in the…
Read the whole story of Jesus: the entire New Testament in thirteen weeks in an order which builds up your understanding week by week.…
Making Disciples One-to-One “Spiritual friendships” “Soul friends” “Prayer buddies” “Spiritual direction” “Spiritual formation” “Mentoring” Most Christians would agree that meeting One-to-One for prayer and…
My new book on helping Christians to be ready to take every opportunity to talk about Jesus. Order your copy from me for just…
Last time you talked to somebody about Jesus, what response did you get? We have seen from the missionary journeys of the apostle Paul…
What was it really like to be a Christian in the first half of the first century AD? We read how the apostles preached…
A few weeks ago at our weekly prayer meeting Draw Near to God we looked at Paul’s wonderful hymn to love in 1 Corinthians…
The Council of Jerusalem in around 48 AD was a watershed in the Early Church. It was the turning point which guaranteed unity between…
The Lord is my Light Psalm 27 Of David. GOD’S LOVE AND PROTECTION 1 The LORD is my light and my salvation— whom shall…
Two weeks ago we saw how Barnabas and Saul were sent out as missionaries and evangelists by the church at Antioch which they led…
In recent years the church has been rediscovering a neglected truth. God loves everybody. God welcomes everybody. Not just Christians or even religious people.…
A simulation or role-play helps us enter into very different situations in ways that we cannot do simply by reading about them. Remember those…
Out of all the churches we read about in the New Testament, which would you say had the greatest impact on the growth of…
descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob from slavery in Egypt. Throughout the Old Testament that wonderful liberation was the dominant picture of salvation for…
You won’t be surprised to hear that the word “praise” appears more than 210 times in the Book of Psalms. Sometimes it is praising…
These two psalms make up just one psalm in the Greek version of the Old Testament, the Septuagint. Together they are an acrostic, with…
In the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, Saul of Tarsus, who became known as the apostle Paul, is named a staggering 170…
What is mankind? In the cosmic scheme of things, just where do human beings fit in? Astronomers estimate that there are between 100 billion…
If you offered a Jewish person a bacon sandwich, what reply would you expect to get? Perhaps it would be a polite refusal. More…