(Note: During our sermon series on the Apostles’ Creed, Pastor Clint Lombard decided to tackle the phrase “He descended into hell” as a blog post rather than in his sermon on “He died and was buried.”)   One of the most confusing statements in the Apostles’ Creed (a classic statement of...

In our recent series through Matthew’s gospel, our Grace Community Group has been interested in an apparent tension between the references to “pearls” in Matthew 7:6 and Matthew 13:45-46. This post is an attempt to reconcile those two references. It’s believed that the modern though clichéd idiom “pearls of wisdom”...

Yesterday during my morning messages I addressed the sometimes tricky subject of ‘predestination’, sometimes called ‘sovereign election’. For many of us (probably all of us, if we’re honest), this is a really difficult idea to get our heads around. Perhaps raises more questions than it answers. Below is a selection...