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What are we to remember? How are we to reflect? Where do we find renewal? Psalm 77:1-3 . 1 I cry aloud to God, aloud to God, and he will hear me. 2 In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in the night my hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul refuses to be comforted. 3 When I remember God,…

Heavenly Father, As we gather in Your presence today, we come with hearts open to the wisdom and truth of Your Word. We stand on the verge of a new year, a canvas yet to be painted with the moments and days You have appointed for us. We acknowledge, Lord, the brevity of our lives, a truth poignantly…

About this we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the basic principles of the oracles of God. You need milk, not solid food, for everyone who lives on milk is unskilled…

A Lifetime of Failure…Until Great Success When he was 7 years old, his family was forced out of their home because of a legal technicality. He had to work to help support them. At age 9, while still a backward, shy little boy, his mother died. At 22, he lost his job as a store clerk. He wanted to go…

This morning’s Scripture lesson comes from two passages: I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your…

Over and over again Psalm 119 speaks about God’s word as a path. While some people might like to think of faith as something that gives our lives a solid and immovable foundation, the Bible prefers to show us that faith is a moving journey with a clear direction.

13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they…

It seems like so many people these days are dealing with anxiety like never before. The author of Psalm 119 describes the details of his own stress, and points us towards an answer to anxiety.

Psalm 119 concludes with an appeal for God to enact his will according to his Word. Often we desire for God to enact his will in ways that give us deliverance; we too want to shout hosanna to the King! But do we really understand what that means?

The season of Lent is a time for reflection.  The Word of God provides a mirror for us to see our own spiritual reflection.  What do you see when you look in the spiritual mirror?

Forever is a long time.  Sometimes we might have a hard time imagining what eternity will be like.  But what if the eternity of God is not meant to focus our attention on the future? What if the eternity of God has more to do with how we live right now?

The season of Lent is a time for remembering. Memory is not just a databank of information we keep in our brains, it is something we rehearse as part of the fabric of our lives.

Psalm 112:4

What is General Assembly and why were we there? Rory My First Assembly Andrea Tone of having a posture of “humility with maturity” was set at the start, and I beleive made a big difference. Moderator Hamish Galloway opened with Eph 4 , emphasising that we are one church , and set the tone for our discussions…

The Road to Emmaus: An Unexpected Journey The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Description of a Hobbit by the Author J.R. Tolkien Bilbo was a simple Hobbit with simple needs of hearth and home, but his friend Gandalf knew that there were things that Bilbo could do that would benefit others. Like Bilbo,…

This was a good year for our garden. It took a while to start ripping! but our squash really grew well. Our kale has provided us with many huge salads. And the tomatoes that I took out yesterday were all green but quite plentiful. And we had the surprise of returning ground cherry bushes that self seeded…

Thus far we’ve seen that Christmas is a time to acknowledge the life giving divine intrusion of God’s Grace (His Unmerited favor to His people) Also, Christmas is a time to reflect upon and declare the hope of reconciliation betwen man and God through a child who would be born both truly man and truly…

For Life and Salvation, God Gave His Son 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Even Death…

Good News Don’t you love a conversation that starts with good news? Can you give an example or two of good news from your life? Engagement/wedding announcement, first child announcement, first grandchild are a few that were good news to me. In our series on reflections, our focus passage is. 8 Finally,…

Be a doer Pretty much everybody in our culture spends some time every day in front of a mirror. We may like what we see, or we may not like what we see, but the mirror does nothing but reflect what is in front of it. Mirrors are made to reflect perfectly what is in front of it. That is what they are…

Does anyone like to talk about repentance? In our series we have talked about some good things, some good news and yes, sin, one of the subjects people get squirmy about, just like repentance. In our series “Reflections” we have been asked to think, consider, ponder, meditate, think about things ( Php4:8-9…

Meditate on these things We started this series a few weeks ago, we have Considered the Bible Pondered on God We have considered Jesus “He’s my King” Our scripture reference for this series: We have discussed it briefly, but have not defined it. Med-i-tate (verb) - to think deeply or focus one’s mind…

Reflect To reflect, think, meditate, ponder, consider. It is always good to do that with the scripture and the theme passage for this series is what we just read. Tonight it says meditate on these things. Just a few weeks ago we started with reflections on the Bible, then on it’s author, GOD and now…

Reflecting on the Scripture We should reflect on the scripture, we should be prepared to share the scripture. We don’t have to argue the scripture, it speaks for itself. This morning we continue our series on reflections and we are going to be looking at baptism. But first the scripture authority for…