I distinctly remember the first person I met when turning up to a new church for the first time in 1999. It was two people actually.
I had gone, all by myself, to a youth group. I walked into the car park of the church all alone, knowing no one and seeing if it was a place I could belong as a very new follower of Jesus.
The youth leaders saw me and encouraged two kids about the same age to go over and say 'hello'.
I remember this story for two reasons. […]
This Sunday we will be sharing in the Lord's Supper together at both Morning and Night Church. It is great to prepare ourselves before we share this meal together and you might find these words helpful.
A number of people have been asking about our practice of the Lord's Supper - how often and when do we share it? […]
This week, for the first time in a very long time, I was able to get along to The Life Course and it was fantastic!
If you are not familiar with The Life Course, it is our evangelistic course that seeks to share with people the greatest news about Jesus. There are lots of great courses out there but this bespoke, developed and refined in-house, to share the good news of Jesus with the people of Wellington. […]
One of the things that stands out in Paul's letter to the Philippians is their deep affection for one another that stems from their partnership in the gospel.
'I thank my God every time I remember you. In all my prayers for all of you, I always pray with joy because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now, being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. […]
I've been spending much of this week thinking about the end of the world as I've been preparing Matthew 24. And as I've been doing that I've had R.E.M.'s It's The End Of The World As We Know It bouncing around in my head.
R.E.M.'s song runs like a stream of consciousness, not much of which makes any sense to me nor to the guy who wrote it who said it was inspired by a weird dream. […]
We're back in Matthew's Gospel this Sunday and we're tackling the sobering words of Jesus in chapter 23. Here Jesus doesn't pull his punches as he attacks religious hypocrisy, that is, those who say one thing and do another. Those who have the external appearance of religious devotion but on the inside, their hearts are far from God. […]
