Easter Week Resources
Here are a few web resources to help understand more about the Easter week, the final days of the Lord Jesus on Earth....
Keep ReadingIn this brief reflection, Graham gives some thoughts on God refusing to allow Moses to lead His people into the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 3:23–27)...
This week's W-W gives thanks for the gathered church, warns against overfamiliarity with God, challenges those who make people bigger than God, or themselves as more worthy of worship....
In this week's W-W there is a classic gospel illustration, a word on singing together, a summary of marriage truth, and a reminder of an important reason we gather together as a church....
Unpacking John's teaching in 1 John 3:22-23, where he speaks of the necessary interrelationship between our belief in Christ Jesus and our love for others....
Though genuine believers will struggle with sin, the work of the Spirit of Christ in us prevails such that we cannot live in ongoing, unrepentant sin....
In this week's W-W, we have a sensible productivity tip, an observation about discipleship, a word on God's will and prayer, and a reformation history doco to watch....
In this week's W-W, there is a discipleship encouragement, a family encouragement, a prayer encouragement, and a tempo of life encouragement... ...
This week's W-W has an illustration from marriage, encouragement from gospel conversations, a word on church divisions, a lesson from Afghanistan, and a prompt to pray for those living in pain....
In this week's W-W there is encouragement to fight, to pray, to trust, and to run... all in God's strength!...
In this week's W-W there is more on discipleship, a meditation on Psalm 103, a call for gospel-centred services, an important word on anxiety... and the final pointer to free e-books!...
Here are a few web resources to help understand more about the Easter week, the final days of the Lord Jesus on Earth....
Keep ReadingIt's not too late to start a Bible reading plan for 2017. Here are some great options....
Keep ReadingHaving finished our series on the Book of Job last Sunday, we turn the eyes of our hearts back to the Apostle Paul's letter to the Romans. In many ways, Job has prepared us well for the 'Big God' theology we will encounter (in Romans 9 especially!). This coming Sunday we will refresh ourselves with the territory we have covered over the first eight chapters (given that it...
Keep ReadingRevisiting the overview of the structure of the book of Job via the Bible Project....
Keep ReadingAn initial look at the ultimate sovereign control of God as we approach the book of Job...
Keep ReadingWhat do we learn about the man Job from the opening verses?...
Keep ReadingWho is "haś•śāṭān", or "the satan" in the book of Job, and what is his role?...
Keep ReadingIn our last devotion, we considered the place "the satan" in Job 1-2 in functional terms. My reasoning for doing this was to guard against taking our own existing ideas about who the satan is and reading this back into the text. There are two extremes we need to avoid (which is the case in many areas of Christian thought!). We don't want to be overly fixated on our preconc...
Keep ReadingWhat are Christians to make of Satan and his strategies?...
Keep ReadingOn Day Four of a week of dedicated prayer for the life of our church, an encouragement to use the words of Psalm 86 to give fuel to your prayer....
Keep ReadingFor Day Three of our church prayer week, we will use Colossians 1:9-11 as we pray these wonderful words for one another....
Keep ReadingFor Day Two of our dedicated week of prayer we will continue to find encouragement from some of the prayers of the Bible. Today's passage is Ephesians 1:17-19....
Keep ReadingWe have set aside a week for focused, dedicated prayer for the life of St Ives Community Church. While there are four corporate prayer evenings, the encouragement for us all is to have a mindset of prayer throughout the week. ...
Keep ReadingWe will start working through the glorious news of Romans 5:12-21 this Sunday...
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