Wheat and Weeds
This week's sermon by Jackie Mill (19 July 2026).
17th July 2026
How do you get to know someone you’ve never met? We might speak to people who know them well or, these days, follow them on social media. While these things can help us know about a person, they...
16th July 2026
The header scripture encapsulates the gospel and has a clear focus on the meaning of true happiness, which pervades the entirety of this Davidic hymn of praise. It would appear that most people are,...
15th July 2026
It’s common when someone in authority in a church makes a mistake or a poor decision for people to not only stop going to church but turn their backs on God as well. This has always puzzled me as I...
14th July 2026
Hannah stands among the extraordinary women of scripture not because of her social status, influence, or achievements, but because her life became a testimony to the grace and faithfulness of God. Her...
13th July 2026
Paul in his letter to the Romans has been speaking of the grace and love of God that we have been given as a gift, and how this gift changes our lives significantly. One of those blessings is our...
12th July 2026
The Parable of the Sower is one of Jesus’s most familiar teachings, and it continues to speak powerfully to us today. Jesus described four types of soil that represent different responses to God’s...
11th July 2026
Sometimes the most important things in life are easy to overlook. A small seed planted in quiet soil may seem insignificant at first. Yet beneath the surface, something extraordinary is happening....
10th July 2026
Do you know what a white rainbow is? Better yet, have you seen one? I haven’t, and I only just learned that they even exist. White rainbows are sometimes called fogbows. They are like rainbows —...
9th July 2026
We know little about Jesus’s early years, from his childhood growing up in Nazareth to the time he started his ministry, but he did learn what it was like to be a young child, a teenager and a young...
Bible study – Revelation (part 11)
with Gavin Henderson (8 July 2026)
8th July 2026
Many Christians, and people observing Christians, have the idea the way to heaven is to do certain things – be good, turn the other cheek, go to church – and to stop doing other things (you fill...
7th July 2026
Among the extraordinary women of the Bible, Esther stands out as a woman of courage, humility, wisdom, and faithful obedience. Although God’s name is never mentioned in the book of Esther, his...
6th July 2026
Did you ever have one of those weeks where everything comes undone? I am sure you did. This has been a week of the unexpected and the overwhelming. I set my mind to peace and organisation of my world,...
5th July 2026
Romans 7 captures the deep struggle of the human condition. The apostle Paul describes the frustration of wanting to do good, yet finding himself unable to live up to God’s perfect standard...
4th July 2026
New Year Resolutions – some of us do great with them. Some of us don’t make any resolutions. And some of us might want me to change the subject. I get it. It has been reported that only 8.9% of...
Hope in the struggle
This week's sermon by Gavin Henderson (5 July 2026).
3rd July 2026
The transition of power from the House of Saul to the House of David was a messy affair, related in 2 Samuel 2 and 3. There were people in both camps juggling for power; old grievances were being...
2nd July 2026
The Argentine footballer Diego Maradona once said, ‘The game of football is like a canvas, and it’s up to the players to paint the most beautiful picture.’ Coming from a player widely regarded...
1st July 2026
Does God hear our prayers only if we’re good enough or if we say the right words in the right way? Does he wait to listen until we are in the correct position, or we reach a quota of...
30th June 2026
The story of Ruth is not merely the story of an extraordinary woman; it is the story of an extraordinary God whose grace transforms lives and draws people into his redemptive purposes. Ruth’s...
29th June 2026
I remember watching, many years ago now, a preacher who demanded healing in the name of Jesus. It was quite impressive; it was meant to be of course. The person being healed would fall backward and be...
28th June 2026
One of the most common misunderstandings about grace is that it gives us permission to live however we want. If salvation is a gift of grace and not something we earn through keeping rules, does that...
27th June 2026
Have you ever noticed how many times the word ‘therefore’ appears in the Bible? One rule of thumb that has been given to help understand a passage in scripture, is that when you see the word...
26th June 2026
I had reached a London mainline railway station and was making my way across town to catch another train to the north. I had to take two different Underground lines to get to it. I had luggage with me...
25th June 2026
Because we are God’s children, we are being transformed into the fullness of the stature of Christ. As such, we are becoming more Christlike. Our thinking will essentially be persuaded by Christ to...
Bible study – Revelation (part 10)
with Gavin Henderson (24 June 2026)
24th June 2026
Hagar felt she got a bum rap from Sarai after she had been given to Abram as an underling wife. She felt lost, without hope and invisible, so she headed out to the desert to die, but God found and...
23rd June 2026
When we think of extraordinary women in the Bible, Huldah probably doesn’t come to mind. Yet tucked away within the story of King Josiah’s reforms is the remarkable account of this prophetess...
22nd June 2026
I never really believed that I was an enemy of God. It is shocking to think that I was, that we all were. I did not intentionally go actively fighting against him in my mind. How about you? I did not...
21st June 2026
Paul’s letter to the Romans is one of the clearest pictures of the transforming power of grace in the New Testament. At the beginning of Chapter six he asks a question that naturally arises whenever...
20th June 2026
The phrase ‘dead to me’ has unknown origins but saying that someone is ‘dead to me’ communicates that you no longer want to speak or have any kind of contact with that person. This can be a...
Dead to sin
This week's sermon by Gavin Henderson (21 June 2026).
19th June 2026
Psalm 7 seems to open with doubts – doubts about whether David was ‘on the right side’. He respected Saul as God’s appointed ruler even though he himself was constantly hunted, his life in...
18th June 2026
The writer of the letter to the Hebrew Christians, in the well-known eleventh chapter, parades before us the Old Testament heroes of faith who performed such courageous and mighty acts with...
17th June 2026
Sometimes it seems as if the whole world is against us. There are days when nothing goes right and we’re almost convinced everyone is conspiring to make us miserable. If you read the whole chapter...
16th June 2026
Deborah stands as one of the most remarkable women in Scripture. She was a prophet, judge, leader, worshiper, and courageous servant of God during one of the darkest periods in Israel’s history. At...
15th June 2026
You can insert your name into verse 20 of our header scripture if you are a believer, and if not, God is inviting you as well. We are the ones God has called into his unity, into the oneness of God....
14th June 2026
There are seasons in life when we feel drained. We may continue functioning outwardly by working, serving, and smiling, but inwardly we feel exhausted, uncertain, or spiritually dry. Sometimes the...