If you knew what the person sitting next to you did in secret last week, you’d probably think they don’t belong in church… Then again, what if they knew about you?

Jude teaches us how Christ’s love and truth work together to keep hypocrisy out of the church, while keeping hypocrites in.

Do our lives look any different to those around us?  What difference does the gospel make to our lives?

Rules come at us from many places. Some protect us while others restrict and diminish us.

What do we do for the eyes of man, rather than for the love of, and submission to God?

The gospel message is simple but so significant to our lives when fully grasped.

What impact can the gospel message have on your life today?

Jesus is the centre of the universe, and only in him does everything hold together.

He should be the centre of our lives too.

Sunday was the beginning of our new sermon series titled ‘A Better Story’, where we began exploring the letter to the Colossians.

Listen or watch back to our Pentecost Sunday joint service with St James’ congregation.

Self-centredness and self-entitlement are ugly things. Like Jonah, we can easily care more about our own comfort than the salvation of others.

We need God to give us his heart for the world.

After the whole city of Nineveh repented, you would have thought Jonah would have been ecstatic – it was an incredibly successful street outreach!

However, his self-righteous prayer shows just how much he still had to learn about the mercy of God. We may be the means of God’s mission, but we must also heed the message for ourselves.

Despite our disobedience, God refuses to give up on us – his mission is far too important.

Through Jonah, God used a message of judgement to change a whole city. As we are obedient to God’s missional call, we may well be surprised by how people respond.