If there is one job I would not have wanted to do in the Middle East in New Testament times, it would have been…
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Do you ever feel like giving up in the Christian life? It’s too hard. It’s too much effort. God seems to be blessing other…
Matthew 18:3 And Jesus said: : ‘Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom…
In the New Testament, salvation embraces much more than God forgiving our sins. Salvation is more than being born again and receiving eternal life.…
One of the things I miss about most about being a schoolteacher is the incredibly inventive excuses children make up. • I was late…
Pray continually, Paul commands in 1 Thessalonians 5:17. Pray without ceasing. Pray all the time. Be constant in prayer. (he says in Romans 12:12.)…
Happy New Year! Please forgive me if I am not sounding quite as upbeat as I would hope to. Usually I come back after…
Happy New Year. I am sure that all of us were very, very happy to say goodbye and good riddance to 2020. A year…
In the sixth Century BC two generations of the people of Israel found themselves a long long way from home! In 587 BC the…
The prophet Malachi foretold that God himself would come to cleanse and purify the Temple. You can watch this message here. Here are the…
Luke’s Gospel records the historical details of the ministry, death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ. So it is perhaps surprising that he…
This message is on video on YouTube here These are the words on the slides. Jesus – the prophet like Moses 17 The LORD…
In 34 years I have never preached on the Song of Songs before. So it might seem strange to do so to mark the…
Readings, reflections and prayers for every day of Advent 2020 These appear as videos in the North Springfield Baptist Church Facebook Group and in…
Many people regard the Sermon on the Mount as the greatest moral teaching in human history. We have scarcely skimmed the surface of what…
“Consider the lilies of the fields” Here in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus took an everyday object, a common little flower, and turned…
This video discusses what it means to be “saved” in the Gospels. https://www.facebook.com/pbthomas1/videos/10158785566658426 These are the words on the slides for this message. “Your…
The Coronavirus crisis has had devastating effects on the economies of every nation on the planet. In Britain businesses large and small are failing…
The essence of all of Jesus’s teaching, and especially of the Sermon on the Mount, is this incredibly challenging saying in Matthew 5:48. Be…
In this message we discussed the Priesthood of All Believers and the different views denominations have about Priests and Laypeople and the significance of…
A greater righteousness – your mind matters! Matthew 5:21-30 In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus sets out the pattern and the standard for…