The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing. – Zephaniah 3:17 Every time we switch on the TV, look at our phones, Read more
It feels slightly odd to me to be writing this week’s Midweek Musings – because I wasn’t there! However, here we are… As always, please feel free to comment in the space below, if only to keep me informed of what I missed! Isaiah 61:1-3 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on Read more
Quite often Midweek Musings is an opportunity to reflect on the teaching points from Sunday. However, when the main teaching point is the verse that tells us that “when [we] come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything Read more
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Read On the Road to Emmaus 13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles[a] from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along Read more
Read 1“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven… 5 “And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the Read more
Reflection: I love the way words can sometimes conjure up wonderful images in our minds, so when the phrase “Peace, Like a River” came into my mind I was immediately captured by the phrase. We all know what a river is of course, but how do we apply the word Read more
In a previous Midweek Musings, we have mentioned that the Psalms, in all their glorious poetry, function as a ‘toolbox,’ a jumping off point for our exploration of our relationship with God. The simplest way to illustrate this perhaps is the association of Psalm 23 with funeral services. And so to Psalm 27… Read more
Sanctuary this Sunday was planned as a follow-up to the previous week’s study of the Holy Spirit in our Equipping services. We know that the Holy Spirit is active, powerful, and constantly working in us as the third person of the Trinity. We also know, from reading John 4:1-24, that Read more
Thankfulness is a word used both for the feeling and expression of being grateful for something. Our friend Janet Hardwick used to remind us how important it was to have an ‘attitude of gratitude’. Thankfulness is deeply embedded in the Old Testament. In fact, there is a specific category of fellowship Read more