by Brendan McLaughlin | Oct 15, 2017 | Weekly News
One of the things we regularly do in our services is stand and recite the Apostle’s Creed. While many older church members hold the Creed to be an important and enjoyable part of the service, many of the younger generations see reciting the Creed in a monotone voice...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Oct 8, 2017 | Weekly News
Hospitality was particularly important in ancient times, as hotels were not available in country towns. If a traveller needed to stop in a town overnight, they relied on the hospitality of the inhabitants of those towns. However, when God made a covenant with the...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Sep 24, 2017 | Weekly News
Paul spends the opening four chapters of his first letter to the Corinthians discussing numerous facets of church unity. It is a topic that comes up in almost every letter he addresses to a church (e.g. Rom 15:5, Gal 3:28, Phil 2:2, Col 3:13). So why is this topic so...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Sep 17, 2017 | Weekly News
In 1 Corinthians chapter 1, the apostle asks; ‘were you baptised into the name of Paul?’ The context of this question is certain factions that had arisen in the church in Corinth, where one group had aligned themselves with Paul, another Apollos, and another Peter....
by Brendan McLaughlin | Sep 10, 2017 | Weekly News
As Christians, how do we motivate ourselves to godly behaviour? The most common approaches are (i) fear, or (ii) pride. Some parents motivate their children through the fear of punishment or missing a reward, or pride of not being like those naughty children. The...
by Brendan McLaughlin | Aug 13, 2017 | Weekly News
Continuing on our series on Domestic Violence (DV), this week’s topic is divorce, which many Christians have mishandled, to the severe detriment of victims. Many Christians claim that the only biblical grounds for divorce is marital unfaithfulness, and cite Matt 19:9...
