Pause to Live
Ian Gray
Much of this series – Pause – is about pausing some of the routine things that we fill our time with, in order to do something else that needs to take a higher priority. But sometimes we need to pause in order to do… nothing.
Pause to Prepare
Ian Gray
Today is the first Sunday in Advent – the four weeks in the run up to Christmas. For most of us it’s a time of frenzied activity – shopping, parties, putting up the tree, trying to think of presents for people who have everything… In the middle of all of that, God is trying to [ more… ]
Nehemiah introduction
Ian Gray
How would you feel if your home town had been destroyed? What if that town was more than just your home – what if it had huge spiritual, cultural, and political significance for you as well? That’s the situation facing the man we’re looking at today – what’s he going to do about it?
Acts part 13: Impossible
Ian Gray
We’re coming to the end of the first half of the book of Acts, so this morning will be the last in the current series (until next year). But today we’ve got one more chance to see Peter and the church in Jerusalem, as they encounter once again the God of the impossible.
Trust
Ian Gray
It’s easy enough to say that we trust God. But what does that mean in practice?
Acts part 12: Perspective
Ian Gray
Do you remember “join-the-dots” puzzles? Sometimes they’re easy, but sometimes you can’t see what the picture is until you get the dots joined up. In our journey through the book of Acts, two people in today’s passage have some dots joined up for them by God, which gives them a radically new perspective on some [ more… ]
Acts part 11: Speak
Ian Gray
We’re in a series journeying with the early church through the book of Acts. Today we’ve reached chapter 9, and we come back to a young man called Saul who we first met a few weeks ago when Stephen was murdered. Saul was highly intelligent, well educated, devout, and passionate to serve God. He was [ more… ]
Acts part 10: Asleep
John Dalrymple
For the last two weeks in our series looking at the book of Acts, we’ve been talking about the events surrounding the death of Stephen. But what about his death (and life) itself? John Dalrymple considers Stephen’s “falling asleep” from a very personal perspective.
Harvest 2015 – Justice
Ian Gray
Today we’re celebrating Harvest – the time when, even if not many of us have actually been out taking in the wheat, barley and potatoes, nevertheless we remember how much God has given us. But this year we have a special focus on the refugee crisis in Europe, and there will be an opportunity to [ more… ]
Acts part 9: Scattered
Ian Gray
The Bible is clear that God does not cause bad things to happen. But again and again, we see him using bad news to do good things. That’s exactly what happens after the murder of Stephen, as we see in the next part of our journey through the book of Acts.
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