Author: nickjones2011

Here’s the readings for this week if you want to follow along with our 2020 vision! Get your 2020 Vision Bible Reading plan here and see here for further details.

Happy New Year again! Our Bible Reading plan starts today with some great fresh starts – the creation of the world in Genesis 1 and the way to blessing in Psalm 1. As we enter into 2019 what path will you take? The path of blessing or the path of perishing? It seems an obvious…

Happy New Year! Every blessing for tonight and for 2019. Get your 2020 Vision Bible Reading plan here and see here for further details, and you can see the first week’s Bible Readings below!

I owe an apology – over the Christmas services I said that the 2020 vision Bible reading plan could be done in 5 minutes a day, I was basing this on day one of the plan, but having tested a few more days I think 10 minutes a day would be a better guess! It’s…

Here’s a helpful article on Ideas for Family Devotions from Tim Challies, you can find it here A new year is just about upon us, and as it dawns, we have a new opportunity to lead our families in devotions. Whether you’ve been utterly consistent or mightily struggling, here are 10 ideas and 10 tips…

Another year has passed since my mum lost her battle with cancer. I recently found the order of service at my dad’s house in my mum’s old Bible: I remember not long after my mum had died speaking to an old retired missionary who had lost his mum when he was only 9. He told…

I came across this review by Tim Challies of this book and thought the book would be a helpful follow up to Sunday’s sermon on the 9th Commandment. You can find the sermon here, And here’s the book review taken from: https://www.challies.com/book-reviews/resisting-gossip/ Don’t you just love a good bit of gossip? There is nothing quite…

After harvest we’re going to be looking at some of the tough questions that we sometimes get as Christians.  You know when someone says, “you can’t believe in God because…” I’m thinking we might cover: Isn’t the Bible just myth?  You can’t believe in a loving God because of suffering? How can a loving God…

Gervase Markham “Don’t waste your cancer” – it’s a very strange expression, surely nothing good can come out of cancer? I first came across this statement from John Piper when he wrote an article on the night before his surgery for cancer. More recently my old housemate (Gervase Markham) spoke about what it meant for…