The apostle Peter describes suffering as a ‘refiner’s fire’ (1 Pet 1:6-7), which does one of 2 things.  Either it will burn us up (i.e. destroy our faith), or as with precious metals, purify us (i.e. refine our faith), by showing us we’re not in control, and we need...

Ravi Zacharias, who passed away a few months ago, is famous for his contribution on analysing worldviews.  A worldview, according to Zacharias, is a set of assumptions a person has made, through which all decisions in life are made.  Since our worldview has so much...

As we move into our month of outreach, which we’re calling ‘New Member September’, it’s worth recognising that one of the reasons we may not be excited by evangelism is because we’re not excited enough by Jesus.  A simple fact of human nature is that when we come...

Next month is our major evangelism push for the year, where we preach on topics our church members indicate they would invite their non-Christian contacts along to hear.  This year we’re calling it ‘New Member September’.  It’s a simple title that captures what we...

In Ephesians 4:11, the apostle Paul says God has given ‘SOME to be apostles, SOME to be prophets, SOME to be evangelists and SOME to be pastors and teachers’.  The inference is, not all of God’s people are evangelists.  But what does this mean? To begin with, God has...

Today’s sermon looks at the final chapter in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s little book ‘Life Together’, which talks about confessing our sins to each other (James 5:16).  While this practice may seem foreign to many Christians today, it is one of the foundations of most...