In one of his last letters, the apostle Paul wrote to his apprentice, Timothy, “The things you have heard me say in the presence…
Category: Continue in what you have learned and believed
In one of his last letters, the apostle Paul wrote to his apprentice, Timothy, “What you heard from me, keep as the pattern of…
God loves us. I talked this morning about just how much God loves us. He lovcs us so much that Christ died on the…
God loves you! This is the simple message at the heart of the Good News about Jesus. God loves you. God really cares about…
Prayer is at the heart of our relationship with God. This morning I reminded us that the very best way to learn to pray…
Eternal life is all about our personal relationship with God our loving heavenly Father. Jesus said: “Eternal life means to know you, the only…
The heart of being a Christian is our personal relationship with God. It was always God’s purpose and desire that human beings would live…
Over the years nearly 400 of my sermons have mentioned the Holy Spirit. I have preached 28 sermons just on the person and work…
“All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly…
The comedian Victoria Wood once observed: “Church is what you did on Sundays before garden centres”. John Smith of the Evangelical Alliance commented: “It…
Most people outside church life are much further from Christian things than they were a generation ago. Approaches to outreach which used to presume…
This important message started life as an article published in the ecumenical journal for ministers, Ministry Today UK. There is a striking saying you…
In his book, “Call to Conversion”, Jim Wallis asked a number of provocative questions. “What is the most important social reality of your life?…
It was at a dinner given in Jesus’s honour that Mary anointed his feet with oil and dried them with her hair. Are you…
“Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones. O, hear ye…
There is no conflict between science and religion, only between bad science and bad religion. At London Bible College I learned a very important…
How do we know that God exists? How can we know what God is like? Psalm 19 points us to two ways we can…
What is Christian ministry? I had learned one of the most important things I know about what it means to be a minister long…
How many live chickens do you think a talented juggler could keep in the air at one time? I ask because it seems to…