BULLETIN ARTICLE – 7 0ctober 2018 Patrick Morley in his book “Seven Seasons of the Man in the Mirror” wrote of “Defining Moments”. He referred a defining moment to “a watershed experience that shapes a man’s character and determines the direction of his life. Defining… Read More »Defining moments
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 16 September 2018 It was Pentecost (a mini one) all over again. In Acts 19, twelve disciples of John the Baptist, who were baptised by him years earlier near the Jordan river, encountered the Apostle Paul in Ephesus. They had repented of… Read More »Power of the Holy Spirit
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 9 September 2018 FELLOW WORKERS IN GOD’S WORK Why did Apostle Paul in Cenchreae (Acts 18) cut his hair and what is the significance of this act? It was a Nazirite vow that a Jewish man or woman can take. This special… Read More »Fellow workers in God's world
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 2 September 2018 Opposition and persecutions are “par for the course” when Christians are earnest in the task of preaching the gospel of Jesus. Jesus said: “If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also” (John 15:20). Jesus told his disciples what… Read More »The Holy Spirit leads
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 26 August 2018 DIFFERENT REACTIONS TO THE GOSPEL IN ACTS 17 Reaction 1: Anger in Thessalonica. What prompted the anger? Jealousy. But what caused the jealousy? People respond to Apostle Paul’s teaching, unsettling traditional religious beliefs about Jesus – suffering, dying, rising… Read More »Different reactions to the gospel in Acts 17
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 19 August 2018 Intentional When Apostle Paul, Silas, and others set out on the “second missionary journey,”they intentionally targeted Philippi. It was a lead city in the district and a Roman colony making it a strategic missionary choice. On a Sabbath day, Lydia,… Read More »The great mission of Christianity
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 12 August 2018 TRUST & OBEY Nowadays, with all the social media focus around us, we are inundated with information and data. Vance Havner commented that at such times all we have added to life is noise. We suffer from selective deafness,… Read More »Trust and obey
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 5 August 2018 HANDLING CONFLICTS How do you handle conflict? Has someone offended you lately? Or caused you to feel hurt or resentful? It may be something a church member, a family member or colleague said about you. Often the guilty party is… Read More »Handling conflicts
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 29 July 2018 SAVED BY GOD’S GRACE In his book, The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins talks about how Christianity is declining in traditional Western “Christian” nations. However, all is not lost. Jenkins asserts that Christianity is growing elsewhere in other lands that… Read More »Saved by God's grace
BULLETIN ARTICLE – 22 July 2018 Most of us are familiar with the idiom: “Life is not a bed of roses”. What it means is that the situations you find yourself in in life are never always pleasant – there are many thorns among the… Read More »Be an encourager
