Continuing in the concluding season of our 2 Kings series Power Without Glory. Our sermon called ‘Out Of Sight’ brings us to the final days of Israel, where a people determined to be just like the rest of the world become lost in the world. For those unable to join us at MGPC, the service …

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I’m reading a novel that features excerpts from Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Sons Of Martha. I don’t think I’m familiar with it. The poem anyway. I feel great empathy with the sons of Martha here described. I aspire to remember I’m a son of Mary. And to remember that contra to Kipling’s contention the burden …

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Jesus rewrote the book of love through the cross. For those who are his, Jesus has rewritten our story. He hasn’t just corrected the mistakes of our existing story. He’s given us a whole new story. From Fleming Rutledge. What the church needs to hear is the radical message of the good news not only …

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Westminster Confession Of Faith – Lord’s Day 18 Chapter 11 – Of Justification (Paragraphs 1-3) I. Those whom God effectually calls, he also freely justifies: not by infusing righteousness into them, but by pardoning their sins, and by accounting and accepting their persons as righteous; not for any thing wrought in them, or done by …

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