From day one in the Christian faith, if you’re anything like me, you were probably taught about the importance of reading the Bible everyday – of having a plan or a devotional that takes you through the Word and means that you are reading and digesting something from it every day. It’s true –...
It’s the third week in our series on the letter to the Colossians, and today we’re tackling the end of chapter one. Colossians is such a massive book – you could write a sermon on any of the verses – but there is so much packed into the first chapter, that we wanted to...
Week Two! Last Monday we kicked off our new series on the letter to the Colossians – we read the beginning of Paul’s letter to the Church in Colossae, and thought about what it means to be called faithful brothers and sisters. You can read the first blog post in this series here. Today, we’re moving...
Colossians – a letter from Paul to the Church in Colossae – is one that I find myself flicking through pretty regularly, mainly due to the sheer amount of gems that we find inside of it. Any of the verses could be written on a post-it note and stuck to your wall: Paul packs...
You can read the NIV translation of Psalm 1 here. This is an interpretation. I am called blessed. For blessed is the one who holds on tight to God; in the sunshine and in the showers, amongst the shouts of celebration or the taunts of accusations. Blessed is one who does not listen...
I was sixteen when I first started going along to a Christian youth group, having never really been involved in Church, or had any kind of faith background at all. I’d started going along to a Sunday night youth group, and when they began a new Bible study in small groups, once I had...
We’re nearly there, friends; we’re almost on the home stretch – I have been loving exploring the book of Joshua, and seeing the way in which God called and sent out this amazing leader. There is loads that we can learn from Joshua about leadership, about calling, about God’s promises and about how He...
Chapters 6-12 of Joshua cover some of the battles that the Israelites faced once they had begun to move into the promised land; years of battles in a few brief chapters. It’s one of those tough parts of the Old Testament with a lot of violence and a lot of bloodshed – but in...
Here’s an admission: I am a twenty-five-year-old girl, who totally fulfills the stereotype of knowing absolutely nothing about cars and being totally stuck when anything goes wrong with mine. There have been two particular cases when this has become painfully evident: one involved my engine giving up while on the second lane in on...
Good stories, I’ve found, don’t happen by accident: great novels and movies are well designed, and they pull you into the plot. You care about the protagonist: you see the good and the bad in their character, and it makes you care about them – the things that happen to them have an impact...
