Teaching

Today we’re returning to our series on Hope – not the vague optimism that people think of today when you use the word, but rather the Biblical idea of a confidence based on the fulfilment of God’s promises. Last time we looked at hope in the context of despair, as Jesus died on the cross. [ more… ]

Sandy Falconer from Tillicoultry Baptist Church leads us through Acts 10, and speaks about “breaking out of the comfort zone”. Apologies for the fact that the audio quality on this recording is poor.

Continuing our series looking at the idea of Hope – not just a vague yearning for something that realistically is unlikely to happen but the Biblical idea of hope as “the confidence that what God has done for us in the past guarantees our participation in what God will do in the future”. This week [ more… ]

We’re in a series looking at the idea of Hope – not just woolly, blind optimism, but the Biblical idea of hope based on God’s promises. Last week we uncovered God’s hopes for creation, and today we’re thinking about how God’s hope saved and sustained his people at a time when they were out of [ more… ]

We start our new series at the beginning – it being a very good place to start – looking at God’s hopes for creation, and his hopes for us, and what happened…

Our all-age service followed the BMS World Mission “Thirsty” campaign, looking at the need for safe, clean water in Haiti. Jesus experienced being thirsty – but saw that people around him were thirsty on a much deeper level.

The final part of our series on the Holy Spirit. We extended the series to look in a bit more detail at the Gifts of the Spirit – “God-given abilities which enables believers to effectively serve the body of Christ”. As we conclude this study today we’ll look at several more gifts, including the controversial [ more… ]

Continuing the final part in our series on the Holy Spirit, today we’re taking a further look at the Gifts of the Spirit. We saw last week that a Spiritual Gift is “a God-given ability which enables a believer to effectively serve the body of Christ”, and that they are given to all believers. What [ more… ]

Would you like a gift? God has chosen the perfect gift for each person in the church; the strange thing is that many of us don’t know what we’re supposed to do with our gift, others don’t try to use it, and some of us don’t even know that we’ve been given a gift let [ more… ]