Last week we ended with Jesus’ denunciation of the people through his little parable of the children at play, as we continue to read in Matthew the denunciation becomes sharper. In these five verses of Matt 11:20-24 there is a double warning, explanation and comparison of the story of judgement on towns in Israel’s past […]
Rosemary Cunliffe completes our series on the Basis of Faith adopted by St James’ by speaking of heaven from Revelation 21 and the city of God but beginning with Genesis 1 taking us from creation to new creation.
The gift of eternal life is not ultimately a passport to heaven but a participation in new creation that breaks into our present reality with a completely new reality –the kingdom of God in which we participate as the holy people of God, full of grace and truth. Matthew 24:32-44; 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
Peter Cunliffe speaks from Romans 3. Everyone has sinned, we fail to reach the mark. There are different ideas about sin; at sin’s root is the fundamental unbelief, distrust and rejection of God and the human displacement of God as the centre of reality; but apart from the fact that sin separates us from God and […]
Clive Joseph, churchwarden speaks about the importance of the Bible as God’s revelation to us and from 2 Timothy 3:12-17
Peter Cunliffe speaks from Hebrews 13: 9-21 about God as the source of grace.
Allen Foster begins a series on grace as we consider the ‘basis of our faith’ this term. The principle reading for this talk is Ephesians 2:1-10. Allen, who is an ‘eye doctor’ shares some wonderful illustrations from his work in Africa. Click the link to SoundCloud if you can’t hear it here.