7 Letters: 3 – Pergamum (The Compromising Church)
Ian Gray
We’re in a teaching series looking at the short letters Jesus sent to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3. We’ve visited Ephesus and Smyrna, and today we’ve reached the capital of the Roman province of Asia Minor – Pergamum. The church in Pergamum was very open-minded – so open-minded, in fact, that they were causing [ more… ]
Baptism: What’s It All About?
Ian Gray
Let’s be honest – when an otherwise perfectly normal human being announces to the world that they are going to be dunked fully under water in a public ceremony, most people would think that they’ve gone slightly loopy! Why would anyone want to do that?
Mnemonics: Remembering the Character of Jesus
Andrew Bramhall
Visiting speaker Andrew Bramhall speaks about the “2:10” verses which remind us of who Jesus is.
7 Letters: 2 – Smyrna (Church under pressure)
Ian Gray
Last week we started a series looking at the short letters Jesus sent to the seven churches in Revelation 2-3. This week we’re visiting the “flower of Asia” – Smyrna, known today as Izmir in Turkey. Thriving, beautiful, with great facilities and fiercely loyal to Rome, but Smyrna wasn’t a fun place to be if [ more… ]
7 Letters: 1 – Ephesus (Losing your first love)
Ian Gray
What if Jesus came to visit our church, and gave us a report card based on what he found? That’s exactly what he did to seven churches in the Roman province of Asia, and the report cards he wrote to them are all shown in the first three chapters of Revelation. We’re starting a new [ more… ]
Harvest Thanksgiving
Ian Gray
As we celebrate the season of Harvest, we”re focussing on all that we have to thank God for. There is a particular phrase in the Old Testament that appears lots of times in different books of the Bible that captures the essence of what the Bible has to say about gratitude: “Give thanks to the [ more… ]
Doctor’s Report 10: Zacchaeus
Ian Gray
Many people remember the story of Zacchaeus from their children’s Bible story books – the wee little man who climbed a tree to see Jesus. Today we’re taking a fresh look at his story to see what we might have missed.
Doctor’s Report 9: Love… just because
Ian Gray
The concept of democracy would be hard to ignore at the moment, given all that’s going on in the run up to the referendum on Scottish Independence. But what’s behind that concept? Is it a purely philosophical concept, or does the Bible have anything to say about it? We’ll see what Jesus has to say [ more… ]
Doctor’s Report 8: Jesus is Coming!
Ian Gray
As we continue our series looking at Luke’s gospel – the investigation into the life of Jesus written by a first century physician – we’ve reached chapter 12. Jesus has been teaching the crowds about how we manage our time, skills and possessions. Now from verse 35 he talks about how the time is coming [ more… ]
Doctor’s Report 7: One Thing
Ian Gray
What’s the secret to life? What’s the one thing that we need to stick to, to make sense of everything? That’s the question facing two women in our passage today. We’re in the middle of a series looking at Luke’s account of the life of Jesus, and today we’ve reached Luke 10, where Jesus drops [ more… ]
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