I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2 (ESV) You may be surprised to hear it, but It is good for us as Christians to face times of desperation! It is...

This week we’re running a Bible Holiday Club as an outreach to our local community. The theme is ‘Rock Star’, which (besides making a great excuse to play great music and dress up) is designed to  contrast Jesus with the ‘stars’ of this world. Where the star only wants to...

“All Scripture is breathed out by God…”  – 2 Timothy 3:16 (ESV) Last week I saw a video applauding the example set by a particular church. [1] The church looked like many, many other evangelical churches, who faithfully proclaim the gospel Sunday by Sunday. What was being applauded was a...

Last Thursday evening, a few of us from the music ministry team went to an event at another local church The event’s theme was how we approach singing as the body of Christ. We sang, we prayed, and then we heard the Bible taught. The text the speaker taught from...

Is your Christian life more focussed on living well now, or dying well in the future? Paul wrote from prison, perhaps even from death row, to the Christians in Philippi: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh,...

For those of us who’ve been Christians for a long time, we can sometimes come to the Bible as though it’s got nothing new to teach us. A few weeks ago, I was preparing to preach on Rahab and the spies in Joshua 2. It’s a Sunday School favourite. I’ve...

This Sunday is Mothers’ Day (and if you’d forgotten, consider this a free reminder). For many, it’s a day to spoil our mums and grandmas, make them breakfast in bed, take them out to lunch, give them flowers and chocolates. For many, it’s a day to celebrate our mums and...

This week the morning light gathered to the strains of Reveille on another ANZAC Day, as we gathered to remember the fallen and honour their sacrifice for our peace and freedom. I’ve experienced Remembrance Day events in South Africa and England, but there is something quite unique about the sense...

When Jesus was crucified, two men were executed alongside him. English Bibles sometimes call them ‘thieves’, but this is really too soft. The kind of person who would receive the death penalty by crucifixion in the Romans Empire were the very worst of people. These men were possibly part of the...

You may wonder why we have children in our worship service at Grace through the Bible reading before the sermon. In Deuteronomy 29: 10-13, we find that even the children, the little ones, were to be in covenant with God: “All of you stand today before the LORD your God:...