On 23rd March 2020 the United Kingdom entered its first Coronavirus lockdown. The last year has been strange and confusing and frustrating and sometimes…
Category: Hope in troubled times
Happy New Year! Please forgive me if I am not sounding quite as upbeat as I would hope to. Usually I come back after…
AN INTRODUCTION DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC. We thought last week about 10 ways in which God wants to bless us. Three of those ways…
I was on the point of missing out the next dozen Psalms from this series because they seemed to be almost boring in the…
Take of your old nature. Put on your new nature. We thought last week about how as Christians our lives should be different from…
We started our expedition 6 am. Trains took us to Dover and a very rough sea crossing. By evening we were in Paris and…
What is life in the church supposed to be like? Ephesians 4 15 … speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become…
Psalm 49 is different from most of the Psalms we have looked at so far. It is not a song of praise or thanksgiving.…
We have now been in Covid lockdown for 100 days. From next weekend many parts of the lockdown are going to be lifted. Some…
We looked last week at Psalms 46 and 47. Those two Psalms gave us a number of reasons why we should put our trust…
The last three months have been very hard for everybody! So our verses for this morning are especially relevant and encouraging. Ephesians 3 20…
Many theologians link Psalms 46 and 47 and also Psalm 48 with the suggestion of an annual ritual drama performed in the temple. They…
This is a Psalm written on behalf of all the people of Israel. It was attributed to a group of people “the Sons of…
God loves us! God loves you. And God loves me. In these strange and uncertain and fearful times God wants us to know just…
In these days of Covid lockdown, many of us may be feeling just as the Psalm writer did. 4 These things I remember as…
We are going to need to reinvent the church. The last 11 weeks of Covid19 Lockdown have brought all the regular activities and events…
Blessed are those who have regard for the weak; the LORD delivers them in times of trouble. (Psalm 41:1) In Psalm 41 David is…
Right from the beginning of this time of lockdown, Christians have been declaring a simple message. The church is not the building. The church…
Psalm 40 is attributed to David. It is a song of praise for all the ways God has rescued him in the past and…
This morning I want to talk about one word. Grace. The word occurs 124 times in the Bible and the idea of grace is…
Paul is giving thanks to God for the Christians at Ephesus, and especially for their examples of faith and of love. This leads him…