It’s right to want to be with people. I can’t wait for the day when I can stand right next to my church family and sing praise with them in person. It’ll be great when we can all have dinner together again, hang out in the park, hug each other. Lord haste the day! But…
“The Bible holds up a God who is stronger than your personality, who is stronger than your past track record of timidity, who is stronger than your perceived identity as a nobody who could ever accomplish anything with courage for God. And I plead with you to accept the fact that it is God who…
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts. The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Psalm 46:6-7 He is ruling still
The staff team are reading Ben Lindsay’s book “We Need to Talk About Race” this term. If you’re interested in hearing him in person these events at the cathedral sound worthwhile. Re-imagining the Church of today and tomorrow: In conversation with Ben Lindsay
“Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate our sin.” I Confess
‘Confession to another person is not a way to artificially unload guilt. The one who hears your confession is not a priest who will grant absolution. The reason you confess something private is to test your own heart. It is also a way to close the door to one of Satan’s condemnatory devices. Satan delights…
“The solution to doubts about Christianity isn’t less Christianity, it’s more Christianity. Following Jesus Christ is an all-or-nothing experience, and it’s as you go for it with the whole of your life that your conviction grows. It’s the only worldview that makes perfect sense of the world around us. “ Dealing with Doubt in a Fallen…
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…
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…