After passing through six landmarks of Old Testament history we move into the era of fulfilment that begins with the long-awaited coming of the Christ. His birth is, therefore, not simply the beginning of something new, but the completion of something ancient. We look at Luke’s account of Gabriel’s annunciation in Luke 1:26-38 which powerfully…
Our sixth study in this overview of the biblical storyline brings us to the end of the Old Testament and the (or so it would seem) of the Nation of Israel. In 586BC the Babylonian Empire conquered Israel, burned the Temple, and took her people into Exile for 70 years. It was the loss of…
As a result of the Exodus and the giving of the Law, God transformed the children of Abraham into the nation he had long promised. But, although they stood appeared to be just one more nation among many, they were a nation founded on entirely different and unique principles. I will make you into a…
On Remembrance Sunday we are remembering war: those who gave their lives in war, those who perished during war, those who suffer after war. But we also want to remember how God thinks of war, what God’s plan for war is. His plan is found in Isaiah 2, In the last days the mountain of…
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…
Each year we set aside a Sunday to give thanks to God. It is an ancient tradition, older than the usual harvest services and something that goes back as far as the Law of Moses himself.
For our 2015 Girl’s Brigade and Campaigners Enrolment service we were delighted to have Derek McCreight along to speak to us from Mark 8
In the wake of the catastrophe of the Fall the early chapters of Genesis depict the spiral of mankind towards utter destruction, a descent that nothing could stop, not even the Flood. And so God engaged in the most important conversation in human history and gave a promise that would change mankind’s destiny, I will make…
The beauty and hope of the creation is followed immediately by the tragedy of the event that the Church has come to call, simply, the Fall.
The story of the Bible begins with its creation, an account that doesn’t simply tell us that the world we live in was made, it also makes it clear that, in the very way God created – he invested our world with meaning and with expectation.