Micah 6: He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Here in the prophet Micah we find a wonderful summary of what…
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“In general we must hold that whenever any religious controversy arises, which either a council or ecclesiastical tribunal behooves to decide; whenever a minister is to be chosen; whenever, in short any matter of difficulty and great importance is under consideration: on the other hand,…
W.I.I.F.M. ? Yahoo search gives 268,000 sites using that acronym, that group of initials! W.I.I.F.M. Do a search for the phrase it represents and you find more than two and a half MILLION web pages with that exact phrase! It is a phrase which is…
2 Corinthians 9:7 says this. Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. So how can we become cheerful givers? To begin with we need to recognise one…
The General Election two years ago produced a result which surprised everybody. When the pollsters were predicting a very tight election and quite possibly a minority or coalition government, the clear victory for the Conservative Party was unexpected. Then last year the outcome of the…
We come this morning to the Eighth and Ninth of the ten commandments: Exodus 20:15-16 “You shall not steal.” “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbour.” These two belong together under the one heading of honesty – no lying, no stealing. Stealing is…
There is a legend you may have heard which says that when we get to heaven people will be rewarded according to how they have lived in this life with differing forms of transport. When a certain vicar arrived at the pearly gates he was…
Becoming a Church Member “The church” is not a building, nor an organisation, but people! The Bible calls the church “The Body of Christ,” made up of all Christians in every age. Anybody who has eternal life is a member of this universal church. The…
“Let’s play church,” the Vicar’s son said to his father one day. “Let’s sing a few hymns and then I’ll take your money off you.” I learned an interesting fact about table manners the other day. There is only one topic of conversation at the…
Colossians 1 24 Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church. 25 I have become its servant by…
The General Election on 7th May is shaping up to be the most unpredictable in modern history. The dramatic rise on the one hand of the United Kingdom Independence Party and on the other of the Scottish National Party means that many traditionally “safe” Conservative,…
The General Election on 7th May is shaping up to be the most unpredictable in modern history. The dramatic rise on the one hand of the United Kingdom Independence Party and on the other of the Scottish National Party means that many traditionally “safe” Conservative,…
I can’t remember which of the kids it was asked me one year, “Daddy, have you made any New Year’s REVOLUTIONS this year? The whole world makes New Year’s Resolutions and they are generally a good thing for as long as they last, which is…
There are some people that God cares about more than others. Alien, fatherless, widow. Refugees, orphans, the poor and needy. In the Early days of the nation of Israel, most of the people lived off the land. They farmed crops or kept animals. So people…
“Don’t let the world around squeeze you into its own mould, but let God remould your minds from within, so that you may prove in practice that the plan for you is good, meets all his demands and moves towards the goal of true maturity.”…