Reading: 2 Sam 7:14, Deut 32:43; Ps 8:4-6 & 22:22Speaker: Tommy Pratt This Week’s Thoughts It feels like just yesterday that Molly and Elliott were up on stage, starring in their very first nativity. Were they Mary and Joseph? No, not quite. They were, instead, rather startled-looking sheep. But this only showed that they are …
Reading: Hebrews 1Speaker: Paul McCabe This Week’s Thoughts Do you suffer from an incurable condition called “Questions about Scripture”? I know I do. Do you lay awake at night wondering if Adam and Eve had belly buttons, why Elisha was teased for being bald, and if Jesus cried as a baby? Another question comes to …
Reading: James 5:13-20Speaker: Paul McCabe Thoughts on Wise Living Are you in trouble? James says you should pray. Are you cheerful? James says to sing songs of praise! Are you sick? Then “call for the elders of the church to come and pray over you, anointing you with oil in the name of the Lord” …
Reading: Mark 16:1-8Speaker: Tommy Pratt Congratulations to Paul and Jackie who were Baptised today! Thoughts on Easter Sunday Where does this Easter find you? It finds me where I am most nights. With my not-so-little Elliott (he just turned 5 years-old) and we are reading his big-boy Bible. Its illustrations are beautiful. Its gospel message …
Reading: John 12:12-19Speaker: Tommy Pratt Thoughts on Palm Sunday What did they know? What had the crowd seen or heard of Jesus to make them flock to coronate a new king as He rode into Jerusalem? Only John gives us the answer. The synoptic gospels show Jesus as a miracle worker and a powerful preacher. …
Reading: James 5:7-11; James 1:2-4Speaker: Paul McCabe Thoughts on Wise Living “But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against these things” (Galatians 5:22-23). As someone who teaches four and five year olds, I know that I …