After the time of Great King David a thousand years before Christ, the history of God’s chosen people is a story of gradual decline.…
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On 23rd March 2020 the United Kingdom entered its first Coronavirus lockdown. The last year has been strange and confusing and frustrating and sometimes…
‘Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! (Luke 24:5-6) Is there life after death?…
What was the happiest day of your life? Was it a special birthday? Perhaps the day you met the person you were going to…
You can watch the video for this message here The captions are here: Sin that leads to death 1 John 5:13-21 What is “sin…
In the weeks before Jesus went up to Jerusalem to die, he had told his disciples three times what was going to happen. The…
These were the captions for this message. Watch the video here. https://youtu.be/wGDTeT8j-yY Jesus Christ has come in the flesh (1 John 4:2) Jesus Christ…
I want to introduce us this morning to Melchizedek. Melchizedek is possibly the most enigmatic person we meet in the whole of the Old…
11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in…
Which people from the Old Testament do you think get the most mentions in the Four Gospels? Obviously top of the league is great…
We have overcome! 1 John 4 4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you…
In 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 7, the apostle Paul uses a very strange phrase. He says, For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been…
How can I be certain I am saved? How can a person be sure he or she is a Christian, is truly born again,…
In the Old Testament, Almighty God was the Saviour of Israel. He rescued Abraham’s descendants from slavery in Egypt and gave them the covenant…
Adam. Moses. Elijah. Joseph. Melchizedek. There are a number of individuals in the Old Testament whose lives foreshadow the life of Jesus. There was…
Have you ever felt loved? Loved by a parent. Loved by a friend. Loved by a wife or husband? I want us all to…
Towards the end of his life the Apostle John was writing to Christians and churches because he had heard of problems they were facing…
Being as old as I am, over the years I have collected a few friends who are quite famous. I once asked one of…
You can download this booklet from our church’s Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/northspringfieldbaptistchurch The much acclaimed 1977 television portrayal of Jesus by Robert Powell focusses on…
Very early in his first letter, John writes this. 3 We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also…
If there is one job I would not have wanted to do in the Middle East in New Testament times, it would have been…