How can you and I live confidently when life is so unsettled? We learn to pivot. I used to associate the word with urea and ammonium phosphate fertiliser or a cropping irrigation system. Pivot. In 2017 it was the business buzzword of the year. In the COVID climate it has made a resurgence. Churches across…
I agree with N T Wright in his commentary on this passage where he states that at the start of the 21st Century it’s harder than ever to be a boy. It’s confusing to know what it is to be male, or for that matter female. There’s talk now of discrimination against women from women…
This passage lays groundwork for where we’re going over coming weeks in a series within a series “strengthening realationships” – husband and wife, parents and children, employer and employee – it begins with this passage“18 Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit… 20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name…
Be careful how you live. This is Paul’s call to the believers at Ephesus and us today to live wisely. Can I just say it doesn’t come naturally. Paul in Romans has said previously that “although they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to…
Over our COVID-19 season I’ve been humbled and blessed by such a wonderful team – from our musicians to the desk crew to children’s ministry zooming and what Sarah and Riley have done and LIFE group leaders continuing to admin working at home and in office to worship leaders leading with no congregation in front…
Paul addresses five steps on how to be truly righteous and holy. The general governing principal is that we change wardrobes – off with the old and in with the new. There’s a splendid worship set with Kirra and the team, great conversation with Naomi Smith re LittleSteps and what they’ve been up to –…
Victor Harbor Baptist Church June 7 10.00 a.m. online service Includes worship set, Sarah and Joel Tymko story, pastoral update, communion with Ross and Alison Weymouth, and message from Pastor Riley.
“Christians are warned not to be babies, in an open boat at the mercy of wind and wave, driven off course by the roll of the dice!” O’Brien Ephesians 4:13–16 (NLT) 13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature…
The main idea in these first sixteen verses is the unity of believers in Christ. Paul’s prayer for his Christian friends in Ephesus is simply that they might know and experience the love and power of God, and that they will be filled with all the fullness of God. Now, I asked the question: assuming…