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08/02/2026

Big questions come along in life. Things happen, things change, transitions come and with them, questions.

Questions like:
• What kind of person do you want me to be, God?
• What kind of things do you want me to do, God?
• What does God want my heart and life and directions to be centred on or shaped by the most?
• How do I know that what I am living is God-pleasing, and right and true?

God’s people were asking these kind of questions after they finally begun to recover their nation, their city, their temple and the whole way of life after the return from Exile.

They seemed to want to factor the Lord into their new life and thought they were doing all the right things he required as they attended to all the expectations of temple worship.

Problem was, they were only scratching the surface of things. They were outwardly observing religious things while daily doing damage by doing unjust things.

They wanted a bigger life and yet, they did not seem to be able to see what the Lord means by a big life and how he provides that life.

We pray you receive God’s word today as both a challenge but also for the purpose of enabling you to live his big life where he has placed you.

Pastor Adrian

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2026-02-01

As Epiphany season draws to a close, we hear of the first happening post-birth even in Jesus’ young life – the day he was presented to the priests at the Jerusalem temple, in accordance with the requirements of God’s Law in the Old Testament.
The day is often named ‘The presentation of Jesus’, for obvious reasons. But there is more than a simple ‘presentation’ going on. It is actually quite a big moment that says a lot about who Jesus is and what he will bring to the world.

The old man Simeon’s words are key. We know these words in song – ‘The Song of Simeon’ which has been sung by millions in liturgy and prayer for millennia.
Simeon takes this baby in his arms and speaks with prophetic voice and a deep peace.

29 ‘… Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. 30 For my eyes have seen your salvation, 31 which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: 32 a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.’ (Luke 2: 29-32)

Praying that Simeon’s song is your song today – a song of deep peace in this boy for your living, your struggle, your challenges, and even your dying.

Take the baby today!

Pastor Adrian

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God is in the Manger – light is here in our darkness, hope is here in any despair, joy is here in all circumstances.

Pastor Adrian Kitson

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Sunday 28th Dec

This Advent and Christmas we have been hearing two voices shedding different light on the stunning reality that Christians hold in their hearts – God is in the Manger. Dietrich Bonhoeffer reflects on this good news of which Isaiah speaks hundreds of years before it came to be. They are the voices. Isaiah is the speaker of God’s truth long before it comes to be and Bonhoeffer is a Christian in extreme circumstances in which he would eventually lose his life for his faith in WWII. He writes from Tegel prison in Berlin in 1943-44. In a Nazi military prison cell with no presents to give, no Christmas turkey to eat, and no gathering of faith in which to participate, Bonhoeffer likens the whole Christian life to the season of Advent – a life of waiting with alertness and trust in the coming promises of God.

That gift of Jesus – Saviour – God in that manger is the only thing that counts. Isaiah’s words speak of all those promises in grand style – water in the desert, justice for the poor, celebration in the land, no more crying anymore… The promises are more real than ever now that God has delivered himself into our human hands and cleanses our dirty hands of sin and guilt and shame once and for all. We pray that this God in the manger gives you what Isaiah foretold and Bonhoeffer clung to – hope – hope in our troubled families, relationships, loneliness, grief, marriages, workplaces and wide world. God is in the Manger – light is here in our darkness, hope is here in any despair, joy is here in all circumstances. Merry Christmas and happy New Year!

Pastor Adrian Kitson

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God is in the Manger – light is here in our darkness, hope is here in any despair, joy is here in all circumstances. 

Pastor Adrian Kitson

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God is in the Manger – light is here in our darkness, hope is here in any despair, joy is here in all circumstances. 

Pastor Adrian Kitson