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Lot’s of things have been happening around the place lately, none of which promote a regular opportunity for blogging. However the college semester starts soon and I now have a laptop…not that I would dare blog in the middle of a class…
Anyway, circumstances have worked out in a way that means I’m now doing the […]

Despite not too much happening on the blog of late, plenty of stuff has been happening in the real world. Sometimes there’s been too much, and my health has taken a battering again. But in the midst of all that there has been some significant times of wrestling with God.
Philip Yancey’s book called ‘Prayer’ has […]

After making it through the 40 Days of Community program and a fairly hefty Easter, we returned to our series on Romans last Sunday night. This time it was Romans 11:11-24 where Paul uses the illustation of grafting to explain the relationship between the Jews and the non-Jews in the Roman church.
As a recap, the […]

We had another preaching debut on Sunday night. Joel (the tall guy) stepped up to the microphone, hit his head on the rafters, and then took us through the next part of Romans where Paul talks about all Christians being sent to tell the story of Jesus. (Romans 10)
Rather than second guess what joel was […]

It was a warm day on Sunday, meaning that under the lights on Sunday night was a hot experience. I was feeling sick after trying to fit too much into my week and being in bed most of the day, plus I was in a bad mood after a number of people didn’t do what they […]

It was a hard message to give on Sunday night. One of those subjects that I think is really important, but not well understood - not by me, or anybody else for that matter. I was squirming before the service, squirming during and continued to squirm after. Living life in the Spirit seems such a […]

I wasn’t looking forward to Sunday night at all. I was faced with one of those passages that I felt if I said anything about, God would strike me dead in a flash.
The passage was Romans 7:14-25 where Paul talks about how he struggles with all sorts of things he doesn’t want to do, but […]

I don’t know that we ever consider ourselves to be slaves.
In a land where freedom of choice, freedom of speech and freedom of expression are seen as a personal right, slavery doesn’t even register on the radar.
But in our journey through Romans on Sunday night, we realised that we live in a world that IS […]

If the message I spoke on the Good Samaritan wasn’t convicting enough, then this week must have been designed to finish me right off.
Read the summary of my Good Samaritan message to get some of the background to the story with my Uncle.
The passage for this week was Romans 5:1-11, a turning point in Romans. […]

There were a lot of big words on Sunday night!
Righteousness, justified, grace, redemption and atonement - and all of them within the space of a few verses in Romans.
We looked at Romans 3:21-31 which is one of the key passages in Paul’s argument and perhaps a summary of the gospel he preached. Remember that this guy […]