Just a heads up that our Christmas service will be held on Christmas Eve this year, at our normal time of 10am. Please feel free to invite someone to join us as we celebrate Christ’s birth.  

How easy is to talk about the needs of our community, and the plight of the poor but fail to talk any practical action? When the apostle John wrote to the young church at Ephesus he made it clear that talking wasn’t enough!  Love had to be demonstrated in action and truth. How do we as a […]

In his book *Transforming Children into Spiritual Champions* Books, George Barna claimed: “What you believe at age 13 is pretty much what you’re going to die believing,” This may be a little overstated, but other writers argue that the window of 4 to 14 years is not only critical in forming lifelong values, but also […]

When God created the heaven, the earth, and everything in it, it was very good. Sadly though, from mankind’s first act of rebellion sin has corrupted this perfect world. We see the effects of this corruption in sickness and death, disaster and pollution, crime and its consequences and in many other ways. In fact, all […]

Sometimes in our attempts to follow our dreams or achieve great things we encounter mountains. Those mountains may be doubts, lack of resources, criticism or any of a number of seeming insurmountable problems. We get discouraged and our enthusiasm drops. The good news is God has promised ‘One more time, I’m going to shake things […]

Prayer is something we often talk about and we seem to be convinced that is an essential part of Christian life. But what is it? The disciples asked Jesus to teach them, because they weren’t sure and he gave them a number of parables to help them understand. One of those parables encouraged them to […]

The centre of our faith is the incomparable Jesus Christ. Our beliefs are not based on a series of philosophical truths or logical arguments but on a person. A person who is at one time fully human and fully God. Christians are not called to follow a systemized religion but to come into a relationship with a person. […]

You have probably heard the phrase that we are to be ‘in the world, but not of the world’. It is most likely drawn from the words of Jesus in John 14, but what does it mean. Are we, as Christians, supposed to live in an unworldly manner, as someone said, so heavenly minded that […]

When Charles Dickens wrote these words, he was making a comparison between two cities in an age of radical opposites. ‘It was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair …, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way […]