ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEW TERM? “(The people) replied: ‘Let us start rebuilding.’ So they began this good work.” Nehemiah 2:18 September is classed as being part of British summer time but for many of us it always feels like the start of a new term…. and, of course, for our children and grandchildren it [...]
A GLORIOUS BUT GRACIOUS GOD “For My own name’s sake I delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I hold it back from you, so as not to cut you off. See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For My own sake, [...]
SOME VITAL STATISTICS! We live in an age that seems to be obsessed with gathering and analysing statistics. Performance management is based upon facts and figures whether we are talking about education, the Health Service, the economy or anything else you would like to mention! Even in sport, we are now regularly updated on “must [...]
Christ can make you whole! Luke 4: 16-21 As part of their Religious Studies course, a class of secondary school pupils were asked to summarise in a sentence or two what the miracles of Jesus were all about. One boy’s answer was simple and, yet, profound: “Jesus took broken people and made them whole people.” [...]
THE GREATEST MIRACLE …BEYOND DOUBT! Have you ever asked yourself why Jesus stayed on earth a full 40 days after He rose from the grave? Why didn’t He ascend immediately into heaven? These were some of the questions that led to a lively debate in a Bible study group recently. Surely, one reason was to [...]
PUT YOUR FAITH TO WORK IN THE COMMUNITY As Christians, we are but pilgrims and short-term residents in this world. We have duties regarding our spiritual growth and development but we also have a duty toward those who are still of this world. “Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of [...]
VACANCY FOR PART-TIME YOUTH WORKER Up to 50 children and teenagers, currently ranging in age from 4 to 13, attend the High Five Youth Club every Friday evening in school term time. This is an exciting community initiative based at Tabernacle Baptist Church, High Street, Newbridge. A vacancy now exists for a part-time Youth [...]
Christian Life: Poking Holes in the Darkness (Isaiah 52:7-8) Long, dark winter nights are upon us and, even with all of the benefits of up-to-date bright lighting in our homes and on the streets, this is a period when we may become particularly gloomy and sad – especially if we live alone. There is [...]
DON’T UNDERESTIMATE WHAT GOD CAN DO! Gideon, like many of us, doubted his own abilities. He had suffered so many defeats and failures that he even put God to the test--not once but three times. In the Bible story, Gideon is introduced threshing grain in a winepress, a pit in the ground, so the marauding [...]
BEWARE OF DRIFTING! Two men out fishing on a river just above a low dam became so engrossed in the activity that they did not notice that their boat was drifting ever near to its edge. Suddenly they became all too aware of the danger as the current increased and they could hear the water [...]
