So – just a month to wait now! The whole world are on the edge of our seats. History is about to be made. We saw him ever so briefly on Christmas Day and have been waiting almost 9 months for the answer.What will Peter…
Category: 1 Corinthians
There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done. Nothing you can sing that can’t be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game – It’s easy. There’s nothing you can make that can’t be made. No one you…
1 Cor 10:16 Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? 17 Because there is one loaf, we, who are…
“His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness, but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes that seemed almost of the…
Jesus said, “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” (John 4:24) In many places the Old Testament gives us pictures of what worship was like for the Israelites. Patterns for worship are laid out, we read descriptions of…
“Fight the good fight of the faith,” Paul says 1 Timothy 6 :12. We Christians don’t like fighting. Somehow we think we ought not to fight. And we aren’t any good at fighting. But there’s one fight we can’t escape from. There’s one battle God…
I want to use this passage from 1 Corinthians tonight to answer a specific question. “Do churches really need full-time ministers?” I have to begin by admitting that that is not really the question which Paul is answering here. The proper way to approach the…
Does it matter to a Christian where our food comes from? We’re not going to think tonight about questions of sustainability or caring for creation. We’re not going to talk about fishing for tuna with dolphin-friendly nets, or the ethics of vegetarianism where eating meat…
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…
The apostle Paul wrote a number of letters to different churches, most of which he himself had planted. But Paul didn’t usually write out of the blue. He is usually writing in response to news he has received from the churches and usually to put…
How do we reach this materialistic self-satisfied Post-Modern Post-Christendom generation with God’s love? In many respects our world in this the third millennium is more similar to the world of the Early Church than it is to English society was even a century ago. Then…
It’s five past nine, you are nicely into your first lesson with your least favourite class of year 9s when the Head of Science comes in with an urgent message. You have to go to the staff room to phone Mr C Lyons. He could…