Pastor Neal Gordon from Shankill Baptist speaks on Exodus 17: 1-7.
Pastor Neal Gordon from Shankill Baptist speaks on Exodus 17: 1-7.
In the study of the Temple the feasts are where the effects of the sacrifices and ministries of the priests burst into the outside world, and when it does so, it brings celebration.
The study of the Temple is easily taken up with thinking about the architecture and the rituals, to the extent that we forget the element common to every sacrifice, and without which nothing could be accomplished … the priest. We also overlook the strange coincidence of the institution of a formal priesthood with the building of…
Family life is difficult and often fractured in our world, so what significance does the fact that God put a command to honour our father and our mother in the heart of his covenant with Israel?
This Sunday evening we’re going to dwell on the office that Jesus Christ is fulfilling for us at every moment, that of mediator between God and man
Do you feel like you need a rest sometimes? So does God. And we’re going to be thinking about that provision in the fourth commandment this Sunday morning – ‘Remember the Sabbath’
What does it mean to ‘take the Lord’s name in vain’? That’s the question that lies behind the Third Commandment – ‘You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God’. Is it just a superstition or is there something more behind it?
It’s our last week in Jonah and God’s last words to Jonah as he confronts him with the depth of his compassion – a challenge that faces us too.
This Sunday morning we’re reflecting on the second word from God – how should we worship?
The fourth landmark event in the Bible’s history is the giving of the law – not as a burden but as a blessing because it allowed Israel, as the nation they had become, to worship him as one people. It did not leave them as individuals seeking God, but as a body bound to God…