We all enjoy receiving invitations from our friends. Weddings, trips, special events, birthday parties, dinner parties, any parties really! There are some wonderful invitations in the Bible and Isaiah 55 is one of the best! I say ONE of the best. Here in this one…
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT) Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death. But God’s gift is real life, eternal life, delivered…
Acts 8:26 Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Go south to the road—the desert road—that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” 27 So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, an important official in charge of all…
Do you remember that hilarious sketch on Comic Relief from a few years ago where comedian James Corden was telling the England football team where they were going wrong and how they should play the game. Players like David Beckham, Frank Lampard and Peter Crouch…
This morning I want to answer a very important question. “What exactly is a Christian?” Many people think they know the answer – but the answers many people give are wrong. What exactly is a Christian? Let’s begin like this: Complete the well known phrase…
This morning I want to talk about one word. One of the most exciting words which we find in the Bible more than a hundred times. That word is grace. A few years ago we marked 200 years from the abolition of slavery in the…
What is faith? Some words can appear to be “religious” – distanced from every day life in the “real world” One such word is FAITH. People talk about a “leap of faith”, and living “by faith not by sight”. It is so easy to be…
School dinner was being served. One boy had several minutes to wait as others were receiving their portions and in silence he contemplated the plate of fish and chips before him. When the chaplain stood and said grace, the boy was sure that he heard…