Emmanuel City Centre Key verse(s) to learn: Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matthew 6:11-12 (NIV, 2011) Key question to ask: How do these words help us pray? Extraordinary thing to say: “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting…
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. Charles H. Spurgeon
“The Bible is God’s good Word—infallible, inerrant, authoritative, sufficient—and I should gobble it up like honey and treasure it like a stack of gold coins. But, on my own, I can drift into acting like the Bible is just like any other book. Nice, but not essential.” Why is it so Hard to Read my…
Mike Cain shares a little about why meeting together matters. Clip taken from the “Church Family News” slot of Emmanuel Westbury’s Sunday live stream on 6th September 2020.
What has Emmanuel Bishopston been up to this summer? In one word: running! At the start of July, the women of Emmanuel Bishopston, challenged the men of the church to run further than them in one month. This unleashed a flurry of activity and by the end of the month, 60 runners had run 3700km.…
Right now, we can feel like we’ve been waylaid — by life, by coronavirus, by the government. But the Lord is showing up, perhaps anonymously at first. We may not have known that he’s the one we’ve been grappling with. But he is. And he’s calling our name. Now, instead of seeking to overcome our circumstances, we…
‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.” E.B White, Charlotte’s Web
“Although God has transferred us from the domain of darkness, placed us into the kingdom of his beloved Son, and given us the Spirit of adoption as sons — all of his good pleasure — yet we can still imagine ourselves dressed in spiritual rags, waiting for our unconvinced Father to determine whether his choice…
‘Sigmund Freud said that we cannot love our neighbor as ourselves. No doubt this is true. But if the reality that lies behind the commandment, that our neighbor is as worthy of love as ourselves, and that in acting on this fact we would be stepping momentarily out of the bog of our own subjectivity,…
In truth, the forgotten places can feel like a wilderness, and many days come when we find ourselves searching for something to keep us going, some water from the rock to sustain us in this desert (Psalm 105:41). We will find it, not in the forgotten places themselves, but in the God who sent us…