This Sunday we not only want to recognise Father’s Day but I want to talk about what it means to be a man in today’s world and how to clarify and incorporated the the values that God has in mind for us as husbands and fathers. There are so many confusing models of manhood portrayed [...]
It hard to believe that we have reached the end of our 40 days journey! Judging from your comments its been a great blessing to many of us. This Sunday the obvious question is ‘What have we learned and how has it changed us’ – a truth learned and not put into practice soon leads [...]
Once we have committed ourselves to loving God and His family, to becoming more like Christ through discipleship and using our gifts and abilities to serve God by serving others, there remains one more purpose that God has for us to fulfil. God wants us to pass on what we know to others. Jesus: “In [...]
About 390 people at St Andrews are participating in the fourty day journey of ‘Purpose Driven Life’. The subject of our fourth week, which I plan to introduce on Sunday is called, ‘Created to Become Like Christ’. This is God’s 3rd purpose for our life; “From the beginning God decided that those who come to [...]
On Sunday we are going to look at the second reason God gave us life and this is to ‘learn what it means to be a part of God’s family’. Hebrews 2:10 says “God is the one who made all things, and all things are for his glory. He wanted to have many children share [...]
I’m now back at my desk after three weeks home leave in New Zealand and most of you will know that this coincided with the death of my mother in law who went to be with the Lord while we were sitting with her. My wife Frances and I thank God not only for His [...]
Easter is all about change. God took the worst possible situation imaginable – the death of His Son – the most perfect man who ever lived and turned it around by raising him to life again. In that moment He changed the history of the world. The Bible says, “If we were put on friendly [...]
On Palm Sunday Jesus was greeted with all the enthusiasm a crowd usually reserves for a conquering king. Josephus the Jewish historian estimated that over one million people would squeeze into Jerusalem for the annual Passover and most of them had undoubtedly heard about Jesus of Nazareth. What the crowd didn’t notice was that Jesus [...]
We have just two more weeks on the Lord’s Prayer and this week our attention turns to the seventh prayer, which we can call the ‘Prayer of Protection’; “And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.” William Barclay writes; ‘Temptation is not so much the penalty of being a man [...]
This Sunday, God willing, we will continue our study of the ‘Lord’s Prayer’ on the fourth of the eight different subjects that Jesus dealt with; “Give us this day our daily bread.’ For most of us food is plentiful and inexpensive which may cause us to wonder about the relevance of this prayer to us. [...]
