Daily Update #322
Colossians 1:10a “And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way”… You may have noticed that we are tackling this wonderful letter in bite-sized chunks. Please don’t feel cheated that we ‘only’ have half a...
Daily Update #321
Colossians 1:9 Who do you pray for? I have often pondered on Paul’s prayer discipline. Given verses like the one for today, I wonder how much of his time was spent in prayer?For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you....
25th July – No Outdoor Service
Sadly the weather looks like it will be against us this week so we have taken the decision to postpone the outdoor service at St. John’s. You can still join the worship online on our virtual church page, and there will be a morning service at St. Nics. Every...
Daily Update #320
Colossians 1:3-8“We always pray for you, and we give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. 4 For we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all of God’s people, 5 which come from your confident hope of what God has reserved for you in...
Daily Update #319
Yesterday we finished our journey through the book of Habbakuk and we are now turning our attention to Paul’s letter to the Colossians for the summer. Before we dive in, I thought it would be helpful to share a few facts about this book to help orientate us. Paul...
Daily Update #318
God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. Habakkuk 3:19 The remarkable thing to me about the end of this little prophetic book is the deep truth in these closing verses. None of what Habakkuk sees around him...
Daily Update #317
Habakkuk 3:16-18 16 I heard and my heart pounded, my lips quivered at the sound; decay crept into my bones, and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us. 17 Though the fig tree does not bud and there...
Daily Update #316
Habakkuk 3:3-15The power of God on behalf of His peopleAs David introduced this chapter on Friday, we now get to the heart of what I would describe as, the psalm of Habakkuk. 3 God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the...
Weekly News – Sunday 18th July
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Daily Update #315
“In Christ alone! – who took on flesh, Fullness of God in helpless Babe. This gift of love and righteousness, Scorned by the ones He came to save. ‘til on that cross as Jesus died, the wrath of God was satisfied –For every sin on Him was laid; here, in...