By Not Known Our Bible contains 17 Old Testament books and one New Testament book of prophecy. The New Testament mentions prophets in the Gospels and Letters. We looked at a passage from Amos last Sunday and will start looking at Zechariah this morning. That’s the A to Z! Some think of the prophets as…

By Not Known In some places church services start with the words “Let us worship God.” These good words summon believers to give God his worth for who he is by praying to him, listening to what he says and by singing his praises. During this last month we have been reminded and challenged about…

By Not Known God’s people sing. From one end of the Bible to the other we read of people writing and singing spiritual songs (e.g. Ex 15; Rev 5). The songs of the Bible express the thoughts of the mind and the feelings of the heart in a way that is centred on God. Under…

By Not Known Heaven is a place of global worship. Believers from every corner of humanity unite to declare their adoration to the one God and Saviour (Rev 7:9-10). We have a taste of this on earth as we share in worship with other Christians. I have worshipped with the incredible exuberance of percussion, dance…

By Not Known The Bible challenges us with its call that we ‘pray continually’ (1 Thess 5:17). This does not mean entering a monastery and spending every waking hour on our knees. (Although, some time praying on our knees is a good reminder of our submission and dependence on the Lord!). It means living the…

By Not Known The first place to study worship is in the last book of the Bible. The worship of , heaven is the model for the church on earth, for heaven’s worship is perfect (Heb 8:1-2;9:11,23-24). All earthly worship is flawed, for we always bring imperfect hearts in worship of a God who deserves…

By Not Known Children can be a bother. Infants demand feeding and playing at untimely moments. Older children need to be sent here and there, let alone the mounting costs of child rearing. Teenagers have intriguing ways to unbalance their parents. And then they become young adults – clinging too closely to the parental home…

By Not Known The Scripture teaches that God saves. We don’t save ourselves. Nor is there a partnership between equals. As Eph 1:3-14 outlines, God has done all needed for our salvation in his works to predestine, justify, sanctify and glorify (Eph 1:3). And that is why all praise belongs to him for salvation and…

By Not Known There are a lot sad people about town just now. Their paper wealth is tumbling in the stock market slide. Or perhaps their en bloc sale ‘fell over’ and they depend on a new and better offer being made and the market holding up. Just a little while ago many of these…

By Not Known They say that God moves in mysterious ways. This seems to be so when we look at the people that God welcomes into his kingdom. Consider: the coward who passed off his wife as his sister to protect himself and then became the father of God’s people (Abraham) the murderer who became…