August 18, 2019Speaker: Ian CampbellPsalms 107 & 145Are we ever beyond hope? Does anyone ever reach the limit and is found to be a write-off? If so it is a self imposed state and never can be ascribed to God. He is always ready to rescue.
Knowing God – The Wrath of God (chapter 15)
August 11, 2019Speaker: Mike BurnsThe wrath of God is not a popular subject these days. Though prominent in both the Old and New Testament, even Christians seem to want to play this subject down a little. Perhaps we find it difficult to reconcile God’s anger when we consider His message of love. Can the two be one in the same? …
Knowing God – God the Judge (chapter 14)
August 4, 2019Speaker: Ian CampbellJohn 5:22-24Packer wonders if we believe in God as Judge and says “speak to people of God as a Father, a friend, a helper, one who loves us despite all our weakness and folly and sin, and their faces light up.. but speak to them of God as Judge and they frown and shake their heads.” …
Knowing God – The Grace of God (chapter 13)
July 28, 2019Speaker: Ian Campbell2 Samuel 9Perhaps the two most staggering doctrines of the Bible are the Love of God and then the Grace of God. Our journey is into a deeper experience of both. We may more easily grasp our need for the love of God than that for His grace. But we are in desperate need for this …
Knowing God – The Love of God (chapter 12)
July 21st 2019Speaker: Ian CampbellEphesians 3.14-19When the Apostle Paul thinks of his friends and what to pray for he is powerfully drawn to the matter of God’s love. In fact he calls it Christ’s love making it even more personal and experiential. He prays that they will explore the dimensions of Christ’s love and will know it although it is …
Knowing God – Thy Word is Truth (chapter 11)
July 14 2019Speaker: Ian Campbell2 Timothy 3:16 The Holy Bible is the most popular, most read, most purchased book in the world. What an amazing fact this is. What is there about this book that has gained it such notoriety? Let’s have a fresh look at its value in our lives and faith with a look back at what an early …
Knowing God – God Only Wise (chapter 9)
June 30, 2019Speaker: Ian CampbellHebrews 11.8-12What is the role of faith in Knowing God? Perhaps a different take on this subject would be that faith is believing that only God knows, understands and works out the backstory to our lives. Hebrews 11 gives us a whole cast of characters, not many of whom got the e-mail that explained everything God …
Knowing God – The Majesty of God (chapter 8)
June 23, 2019Speaker: Ian CampbellPsalm 8.1 & Psalm 93.1-5Have you ever been “lost in wonder, love and praise” as Charles Wesley penned in his hymn “Love Divine”? Against our attempts to understand and explain God we are often much more suited for admiration and awe than grasping. In the words of the Band Sleeping at Last “The universe was made …
Knowing God – God Unchanging (chapter 7)
Sunday, June 16, 2019Speaker: Ian CampbellPsalm 102.26-27Here is a profound idea – that God does not ever change. So the One presented in the Old Testament and New Testament is still as described. What does that mean for us? We have some theological questions and some practical questions about this. Is the Old Testament God really still the same? Today …
Knowing God – The Paraclete (chapter 6)
June 9, 2019Speaker: Ian CampbellJohn 14.26A recent author has titled his book The Forgotten God, referring to the Holy Spirit. We cannot get very far on the path of knowing God if we don’t develop our balcony and traveler knowledge of the Holy Spirit. This Sunday we will focus on the third person of the Trinity.