What joins us as a church family is Christ. 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 Keep living out the gospel daily, and giving thanks. Each year since 2019, the church has dedicated in November, a service of Thanksgiving. This year, we are also celebrating our 55th Anniversary with our Thanksgiving service. Why do we stop to give thanks? Because thanksgiving needs to be cultivated. It needs to be intentionally nurtured and strengthened. Otherwise, our eyes can shift from Christ our foundation

Where does your confidence come from? Psalm 27:13-14 Today, put your confidence in the LORD, wait on his action, and look for his outcomes. He is worthy of your trust and faith. As a child I was very shy, so my parents decided to send me off with my sisters to a local drama club that met in a hall in Aspley. I think I may have been 8 or 9 years old at the time. My only recollection was being on stage wearing my green tree frog costume and jumping around on cue. My parents tho

A lot of sure, solid things we put our trust in aren’t all that sure and solid. Property, wealth, family, career, etc are all good things. But they cannot be our foundation. Psalm 121 In an ever-changing world there is only one sure foundation. God, the creator, is the one constant over the millennia. Julie and I visited New Zealand between the two big earthquakes that hit Christchurch. We got to go in the cathedral before it was severely damaged in the second quake. A magnif

Each of us, as we walk alongside of others, write on each other’s hearts. 2 Cor 3:1-4 Whose heart are you writing on, and whose life are you allowing to write on your heart, so that they and you may be more like Christ? I came across some letters my dad’s mother wrote to him when he enlisted in the Army in 1940 and was doing training in Edinburgh with an armoured unit. The letters contained the usual things—did you get there safely? How are you settling in? What was happening