by Samuel Smithson | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
Pentecost Acts 2; 1 to 21 Today we’re starting our series of talks on the book of Acts. Hopefully many of you will have read Campbell’s excellent Introduction to Acts which he printed out for us to read last week. This will give you a good background to this second...
by Samuel Smithson | Apr 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
Luke 4; 1 to 13 In today’s gospel reading we meet a very important biblical character who doesn’t often make a centre stage appearance. He’s sometimes mentioned as being there in the backgound but we rarely get to see him in action. I’m talking of course about the...
by Samuel Smithson | Apr 14, 2013 | Uncategorized
John 12 verses 1 to 8. I think today’s gospel reading from John is primarily about worship. We see Mary the sister of Lazarus – who was raised from the dead – expressing what she feels in her heart for Jesus. In short she worships Him. She recognises him as God and...
by Samuel Smithson | Jan 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
John 18 ; 33 to 37 We can read the newspapers and look around us at what is going on in the world and think quite frankly – what a mess. Where is God in all this? What’s gone wrong with the world? In fact lots of people when they see poverty and war and...
by Samuel Smithson | Jan 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
December 16th Sermon; Luke 3 verses 7 to 18 Advent is not only about preparing for the celebration of Jesus’ birth at Christmas. It’s also about preparing for Jesus Second Coming – at some point in the future – when he will come as the Judge of mankind....
by Samuel Smithson | Nov 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
STUDY QUESTIONS – John 14 ‘I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life’ 1. Despite the comfort and assurance offered by Jesus in this passage, its unequivocal exclusiveness – his claims both about himself and about his being ‘the only way to the Father’ – some...
