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By Not Known Easter is soon here and it is timely to think about the Passion of Jesus. The Passion has central place in each of the four Gospels. This is so much so that someone describes them as ‘Passion stories with introductions’. For example, nine of the 21 chapters in John are concerned with the last few days of Jesus’ life that lasted for about 33…

By Not Known In today’s world, a wealthy person is someone who can choose what to eat, what to wear, where to live, and who has savings. That makes just about all of us wealthy. We live in a wealthy country and the Christian population tends to come from the better-educated and better-paid section of society. Our wealth is both a trap and opportunity. Material…

By Not Known A new membership class starts this week. Some will join us by adult Baptism, as a public declaration that they want to trust, follow and serve Jesus. Others will join Confirmation, as a public declaration that the faith of their parents, in which they were baptised as infants, is also their faith. Yet others will join us by Transfer from other churches, where…

By Not Known Missions is the work of communicating the message about Jesus and challenging people to believe in him. The reason for missions is simple: God plans to save a vast number of people from every branch of humanity and uses his church to tell about Jesus and gather those people (Rev. 7:9- 10; Mt 28: 19- 20; Eph 3:7- 11) Missions cannot ever be an optional…

By Not Known What is a Christian? A Christian is someone who trusts, follows and serves Jesus Christ. Christians believe that Jesus was ‘God in the flesh‘. He is the Son who left heaven’s throne to come to earth to live amongst us, to die and to be raised. His death enables us to become God’s people. Because Jesus was fully human, he could…

By Not Known Sometimes we look at our lives and wonder. Perhaps we see a state of chaos, as we are pulled in multiple directions by conflicting forces. Or Worse – sometimes it seems that an evil god has seized power. At times like these we wonder who is in control. It must have seemed that way to the first readers of the book of Revelation. This book was written to…

By Not Known On Sunday 29 February we are having outreach services. Our speaker will talk about Jesus in a user-friendly format and we will give people an opportunity to respond to his talk. For those who are interested, we give follow-up support through our Basic Christianity class and Lessons of Assurance classes. All that is missing is people. We can expect that the…

By Not Known Where do you look in times of trouble? Sometimes we look around us and see the overwhelming nature of our troubles and the threat they pose. This may paralyse us with fear. Sometimes we look inside ourselves and see our lack of ability to solve our own problems. That may paralyse us with despair. Both the prophecy of Ezekiel and the book of Revelation were…

By Not Known How do you prepare for a meeting with an important person? Our preparations tend to increase as the other person’s importance rises. How do we prepare to meet with God? We meet with God in settigns such as a personal and family devotion and Sunday services Ofter, we give almost no thought or preparation to these meetings with God. It’s almost as…

By Not Known We know how times have changed and so have teenagers. Back when today’s adults were growing up, the church tradition involved recitation of Christian creeds during weekly worship services. The entire congregation participated, old and young. Whether as young people then understood the significance of those repeated words or not; whether we protested or…