New Wine worship and teaching sessions will be on-line in the Centre (upstairs) starting tonight (29th July) at 7-8.30 pm until Tuesday evening and 11-12.45am from tomorrow until Tuesday. Doors open 30 minutes before each session. We may also watch other seminars and conversations in the afternoon, depending on demand If you wish to come …
COLOSSIANS 1:10b-12a “…bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father…” (N.I.V.) If we knew that St. Paul was praying regularly for St. Johns Church – …
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 verse to consider today. It is …
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. We continually ask God to fill …
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 Blessing Matt & Team
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 heaven. You have had this expectation …
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 wrote this letter to a small …
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 seems good or indeed likely to …
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 are no grapes on the vines, …
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 earth.4 His splendour was like the sunrise; rays …