by Brendan McLaughlin | Aug 15, 2021 | Weekly News
How are you coping under these ever-tightening lockdown restrictions? How is your mental health coping with the isolation? How is your physical health, given the restrictions over exercise? How is your family coping, being in each other’s pockets 24/7? How are...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Aug 8, 2021 | Weekly News
If salvation is by grace alone, and not by works, why does the author to the Hebrews say ‘let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest’ (Heb 4:11)? What does he mean to work really hard in order to get into heaven? In order to understand v. 11 we must...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Aug 1, 2021 | Weekly News
Do not underestimate the power of encouragement. The area of ministry that has changed the most for me in recent years is the time I now dedicate to meeting up with parishioners one-to-one. While proclaiming the word from the pulpit each Sunday is still my number...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jul 25, 2021 | Weekly News
In last week’s sermon I mentioned the Lord of the Ring’s character Boromir, who was next in line to be Steward of Gondor. Yet Boromir meets Aragorn, who is the rightful heir to the throne of Gondor. Boromir is initially conflicted, as Aragorn has barely set foot in...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Jul 18, 2021 | Weekly News
When John Piper was going through treatment for cancer, he wrote a little book titled ‘Don’t waste your cancer’. His message was that cancer does not win if it takes your life; it wins if it causes you to drift in your Christian walk. So my message today is ‘Don’t...
